Maryland 2005 Off Year Elections

The Green Papers: Maryland 2005 Off Year Elections

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Maryland
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. 109^th 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
	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

109^th U.S. House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 109^th 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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