Maryland 2014 Election Results

Maryland held its general election on November 4, 2014, deciding 187 legislative seats across 114 districts and 4 statewide offices led by the governorship. No chamber changed party control.

Highlights

• Republicans broke the Democratic trifecta: Larry Hogan (R) won the governorship, becoming Maryland's second Republican governor in half a century, but Democrats kept three-fifths majorities in both chambers of the General Assembly.
• Hogan beat Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown (D) by nearly 4 points in what the Baltimore Sun called a stunning upset. He ran on rolling back what he called Gov. Martin O'Malley's "40 consecutive tax increases," including a stormwater fee critics derided as a "rain tax." Brown spent more than four times as much and narrowly won early voting, but Hogan swamped him on Election Day. Hogan's running mate, Boyd Rutherford (R), became lieutenant governor.
• Republicans also gained in the legislature, leaving the House of Delegates at 91-50 and the Senate at 33-14, with the GOP holding a record number of House seats. That still left Democrats above the 85 House and 29 Senate votes needed to override a veto; as political scientist David Lublin put it, there are "not enough Republicans to sustain a gubernatorial veto" without help from some Democrats.
• Several veteran Democrats lost:
  • Steve Waugh (R) soundly defeated five-term Sen. Roy Dyson (D) in Senate District 29.
  • In Dundalk's District 6, long held by Democrats, Republicans won all four seats: Johnny Salling (R) beat Del. John Olszewski, Jr. (D) by about 850 votes for the open Senate seat, and Bob Long (R), Ric Metzgar (R), and Robin L. Grammer, Jr. (R) swept the three House seats, ousting Del. Michael Weir, Jr. (D).
  • Carl Anderton, Jr. (R) unseated Appropriations Committee Chair Norman H. Conway (D) in House District 38B.
  • Deb Rey (R) ousted Del. John Bohanan (D) by fewer than 80 votes in House District 29B.
  • Western Maryland Dels. Kevin Kelly (D) and John P. Donoghue (D), each a six-term incumbent, lost to Jason Buckel (R) and Brett Wilson (R).
  • Cecil County Del. David Rudolph (D) lost to Kevin Hornberger (R).
• Democrats held the other two statewide offices: Brian Frosh (D) won the open attorney general's race over Jeffrey Pritzker (R), and Comptroller Peter Franchot (D) was re-elected over William H. Campbell (R). Voters approved both constitutional amendments: Question 1 bars transfers from the Transportation Trust Fund to the general fund, and Question 2 lets charter counties fill a county executive vacancy by special election.

Legislature

• House of Delegates (141 seats): 98 D, 43 R before the election, 90 D, 51 R after; control stayed with Democrats.
• Senate (47 seats): 36 D, 11 R before the election, 33 D, 14 R after; control stayed with Democrats.

Statewide races

Legislative races

Ballot measures