The Green Papers: Maryland 2005 Off Year Elections
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Electoral Votes:10(1.86% of 538)
Governor:1 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 3)
2002-2010 Representatives:8(1.84% of 435)
2000 Census:5,307,886 (1.88% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):3,925,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):2,715,366
Capital:Annapolis
 

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Maryland State and Local Government

           

U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 109th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes

Class 1   Democratic   Senator Paul Sarbanes
First elected: 1976; re-elected: 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
Open Seat - 11 March 2005: Announced that he is retiring and is not a candidate for re-election in 2006
  Candidate Democratic     (pending)
Congressman Benjamin L. Cardin (CD 3), Ex-NAACP President Kweisi Mfume; Allan Lichtman; Lise Van Susteren; A. Robert Kaufman; Joshua Rales; Dennis Rasmussen

Class 3   Democratic   Senator Barbara A. Mikulski
First elected: 1986; re-elected: 1992, 1998, 2004.
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors

    Republican   Governor Robert L. "Bob" Ehrlich, Jr.
First elected: 2002
Chair up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.

Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Elected on same ticket with the Governor. No separate Primary for Lt Gov from Gov

    Republican   Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

109th U.S. House of Representatives  2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 109th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
2 Republican (2 Undetermined);
6 Democratic (5 Undetermined, 1 Open)

CD 1   Republican   Congressman Wayne T. Gilchrest
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 2   Democratic   Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 3   Democratic   Congressman Benjamin L. Cardin
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
Open Seat - Running for the Class 1 Senate seat in 2006.

CD 4   Democratic   Congressman Albert R. Wynn
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 5   Democratic   Congressman Steny H. Hoyer
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 6   Republican   Congressman Roscoe G. Bartlett
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 7   Democratic   Congressman Elijah E. Cummings
First elected: in Special Election, 16 April 1996, re: resignation of Congressman Kweisi Mfume, 18 February 1996
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 8   Democratic   Congressman Christopher Van Hollen, Jr.
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Attorney General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

    Democratic   Attorney General J. Joseph "Joe" Curran, Jr.
First elected: 1986; re-elected: 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Comptroller  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

    Democratic   Comptroller William Donald "Don" Schaefer
First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Political Parties    Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

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