In last week’s election, local and state level Democrats won in all races. Democrat Wes Moore will make history as the first Black Governor of Maryland. This means a shift in party leadership for a state that has had a Republican governor – Larry Hogan – since 2015. In this race, Republican Dan Cox was more popular in several counties but in Prince George’s County, Moore received 179,968 votes while Cox garnered just 10 percent of that (17,937 votes). Overall, the Wes Moore – Aruna Miller ticket received 62.37 percent of the vote.
Comptroller
Democrat Brooke Lierman will be the next comptroller. She beat Republican Barry Glassman with 89.2 percent of the vote to Glassman’s 10.6 percent. She will replace Democrat Peter Franchot who was running for governor but lost to Moore in the primary.
Attorney General
Democrat Anthony G. Brown won over 90 percent of the vote in his race for Attorney General. Brown is currently the U.S. Representative in Congress for Maryland’s 4th District, a position he has held since 2017.
U.S. Senator
Democrat Chris Van Hollen won re-election for U.S. Senator. He has been serving as senator since 2017 and beat his Republican challenger Chris Chaffee with 90.5 percent of the vote to Chaffee’s 9.3 percent.
Representative in Congress
Democrat Glenn Ivey won the 4th Congressional District, of which Greenbelt is now part. He earned 90 percent of the vote to beat his opponent, the Republican hopeful and Greenbelt resident Jeff Warner.
District 22
Democrat Paul Pinsky ran unopposed for State Senator for District 22. Democrats Anne Healey, Alonzo T. Washington and Nicole A. Williams ran unopposed for the three seats in the House of Delegates.
Board of Ed
In the nonpartisan Board of Education race Jonathan Briggs beat out fellow Greenbelter Jenni Pompi to take the District 2 seat. Briggs won 59 percent of the vote to Pompi’s 40 percent.
Questions
All constitutional questions at the state level passed, including the legalization of the adult use and possession of cannabis. Overall, Marylanders voted 66.23 percent in favor of the amendment with 33.77 percent opposed. In Prince George’s County support for the measure was greater than across the state as a whole: 137,386 county residents voted in favor of legalization and 54,895 against.
All local questions for Prince George’s County also passed. The least popular was the charter amendment for gender neutral language, which still passed with 65.35 percent in favor and 34.65 percent opposed.
Election data for this article came from the State Board of Elections.