Maryland 2009 General Election

The Green Papers: Maryland 2009 General Election

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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. 111^th Senate Senate Electoral Classes

Class 1	Democratic	Senator Benjamin L. "Ben" Cardin • First elected: 2006 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012

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: 2006, 2010. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors

	Democratic	Governor Martin O'Malley • First elected: 2006 • Chair up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 • The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.

Lieutenant Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Elected on same ticket with the Governor. No separate Primary for Lt Gov from Gov

	Democratic	Lieutenant Governor Anthony G. Brown • First elected: 2006 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

111^th U.S. House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 111^th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition): 7 Democratic (7 Undetermined); 1 Republican (1 Undetermined)

CD 1 {map}	Democratic	Congressman Frank Michael Kratovil, Jr. • First elected: 2008 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 2 {map}	Democratic	Congressman Charles Albert Dutch "C.A. Dutch" Ruppersberger, III • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 3 {map}	Democratic	Congressman John Peter Spyros Sarbanes • First elected: 2006 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 4 {map}	Democratic	Congressman Donna Fern Edwards • First elected in a Special Election, 17 June 2008, held to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of Congressman Albert Wynn, effective 1 June 2008 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 5 {map}	Democratic	Congressman Steny Hamilton Hoyer • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 6 {map}	Republican	Congressman Roscoe G. Bartlett, Jr. • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 7 {map}	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 2 November 2010

CD 8 {map}	Democratic	Congressman Christopher "Chris" Van Hollen, Jr. • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Attorney General 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010

	Democratic	Attorney General Douglas F. "Doug" Gansler • First elected: 2006 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Comptroller 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010

	Democratic	Comptroller Peter Franchot • First elected: 2006 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

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.

Major Parties
	• Democratic (affiliates): 13 incumbents
	• Republican: 1 incumbent
Candidates running under the banner of more than one party are counted towards each party's total. A candidate who has lost a primary or is apparently no longer a candidate is not counted.

Notes

Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from a legal election authority that the person has been officially certified to appear on the ballot.

FEC indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary "Total Receipts" for candidates for Federal Office.