2016 United States Senate election in Maryland

2016 United States Senate election in Maryland
	Van Hollen: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90%; Szeliga: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90%; Tie: 40–50% 50% No votes
U.S. senator before election; Barbara Mikulski; Democratic	Elected U.S. Senator ; Chris Van Hollen; Democratic

The 2016 United States Senate election in Maryland took place on November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Maryland, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

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Incumbent Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski decided to retire after five terms in the Senate.^[1] Primary elections were held April 26, 2016, in which Chris Van Hollen and Kathy Szeliga were chosen as the Democratic and Republican party nominees, respectively. In addition, the Green Party chose Margaret Flowers and the Libertarian Party chose Arvin Vohra as their respective nominees.

Van Hollen was heavily favored to win the election. He ultimately won with over 60% of the vote. As typically occurs with the state's elections, most support for the Democratic nominee, Van Hollen, came from the densely populated Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area in central Maryland, while the Republican nominee, Szeliga, did well in the more sparsely populated areas on the Eastern Shore and in Western Maryland, and narrowly won Anne Arundel County, home to the state capital Annapolis, as well as exurban Frederick County.

This election was the first time since 1980 that a man won the Class 3 Senate seat in Maryland.

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Poll source	Date(s) administered	Sample size	Margin of error	Donna Edwards	Chris Van Hollen	Other	Undecided
Monmouth University^[78]	April 18–20, 2016	300	± 5.7%	36%	52%	1%	11%
Public Policy Polling^[79]	April 15–17, 2016	492	± 4.4%	33%	42%	—	25%
Marist College^[80]	April 5–9, 2016	775	± 3.5%	38%	44%	—	18%
Washington Post/University of Maryland^[81]	March 30 – April 3, 2016	539	± 4.5%	44%	40%	—	16%
Garin-Hart-Yang Research^[82]	March 28–30, 2016	604	± 4.9%	40%	45%	—	15%
University of Baltimore^[83]	March 4–9, 2016	400	± 4.9%	34%	28%	—	31%
Gonzales Research^[84]	February 29 – March 4, 2016	411	± 5.0%	41%	42%	—	17%
Goucher College^[85]	February 13–18, 2016	307	± 5.6%	39%	37%	—	24%
Gonzales Research^[86]	January 11–16, 2016	402	± 5%	36%	38%	—	24%
University of Baltimore^[87]	November 13–17, 2015	419	± 4.8%	19%	28%	40%^[13]	13%
University of Baltimore^[87]	November 13–17, 2015	419	± 4.8%	31%	45%	—	24%
Washington Post/University of Maryland^[88]	October 8–11, 2015	1,006	± 3.5%	20%	20%	33%^[13]	27%
Global Strategy Group (D-Edwards)^[89]	August 3–9, 2015	600	± 4%	42%	37%	—	21%
Mellman Group (D-Cummings)^[90]	March 19–22, 2015	700	± 3.7%	23%	22%	29%^[13]	27%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Chris Van Hollen	470,320	53.2%
	Democratic	Donna Edwards	343,620	38.9%
	Democratic	Freddie Dickson	14,856	1.7%
	Democratic	Theresa Scaldaferri	13,178	1.5%
	Democratic	Violet Staley	10,244	1.2%
	Democratic	Lih Young	8,561	1.0%
	Democratic	Charles Smith	7,912	0.9%
	Democratic	Ralph Jaffe	7,161	0.8%
	Democratic	Blaine Taylor	5,932	0.7%
	Democratic	Ed Tinus	2,560	0.3%
Total votes			884,344	100.0%

Poll source	Date(s) administered	Sample size	Margin of error	Kathy Szeliga	Richard Douglas	Barry Glassman	Chrys Kefalas	Anthony Seda	Undecided
Marist College^[127]	April 5–9, 2016	368	± 5.1%	20%	13%	–	9%	–	57%
Washington Post/University of Maryland^[81]	March 30 – April 3, 2016	283	± 7.5%	15%	9%	–	11%	–	46%
University of Baltimore^[128]	March 4–8, 2016	400	± 4.9%	6%	1%	–	2%	<1%	79%
University of Baltimore^[129]	November 13–17, 2015	307	± 5.6%	15%	9%	8%	5%	4%	59%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Kathy Szeliga	135,337	35.6%
	Republican	Chris Chaffee	52,066	13.7%
	Republican	Chrys Kefalas	36,340	9.6%
	Republican	Richard Douglas	29,007	7.6%
	Republican	Dave Wallace	23,226	6.1%
	Republican	Sean Connor	21,727	5.7%
	Republican	Lynn Richardson	20,792	5.5%
	Republican	John Graziani	16,722	4.4%
	Republican	Greg Holmes	16,148	4.3%
	Republican	Mark McNicholas	9,988	2.6%
	Republican	Joe Hooe	8,282	2.2%
	Republican	Anthony Seda	3,873	1.0%
	Republican	Richard Shawver	3,155	0.8%
	Republican	Garry Yarrington	2,988	0.8%
Total votes			379,651	100.0%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Green	Margaret Flowers	125	98.0%
	Green	None of the above	3	2.0%
Total votes			128	100.0%

2016 United States Senate election in Maryland

Background

Democratic primary

Candidates

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Declined

Debates

Endorsements

Polling

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Republican primary

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Third party and independent candidates

Green Party

Results

Independents

Libertarian Party

General election

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By congressional district

See also

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Source	Ranking	As of
The Cook Political Report^[152]	Safe D	November 2, 2016
Sabato's Crystal Ball^[153]	Safe D	November 7, 2016
Rothenberg Political Report^[154]	Safe D	November 3, 2016
Daily Kos^[155]	Safe D	November 8, 2016
Real Clear Politics^[156]	Safe D	November 7, 2016

United States Senate election in Maryland, 2016^[166]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Chris Van Hollen	1,659,907	60.89%	−1.30%
	Republican	Kathy Szeliga	972,557	35.67%	−0.08%
	Green	Margaret Flowers	89,970	3.30%	+2.17%
	Write-in		3,736	0.14%	+0.03%
Total votes			2,726,170	100.00%	N/A
	Democratic hold

County	Chris Van Hollen Democratic		Kathy Szeliga Republican		Margaret Flowers Green		Write-in Write-in		Margin		Total votes cast
County	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast
Allegany	8,549	32.1%	16,993	63.8%	1,113	4.2%	32	0.1%	-8444	-31.7%	26687
Anne Arundel	116,422	47.8%	119,760	49.2%	7,374	3.0%	305	0.1%	-3338	-1.4%	243556
Baltimore (County)	189,041	56.4%	135,846	40.5%	10,212	3.0%	511	0.2%	53195	15.9%	335099
Baltimore (City)	171,318	82.7%	26,353	12.7%	9,550	4.6%	463	0.2%	144965	70.0%	207684
Calvert	17,094	40.1%	23,867	56.0%	1,691	4.0%	76	0.2%	-6773	-15.9%	42654
Caroline	4,306	32.6%	8,560	64.9%	327	2.5%	11	0.1%	-4254	-32.3%	13193
Carroll	25,415	29.9%	57,540	67.6%	2,149	2.5%	80	0.1%	-32125	-37.7%	85184
Cecil	13,864	33.4%	26,143	63.0%	1,517	3.7%	58	0.1%	-12279	-29.6%	41478
Charles	45,834	63.6%	24,038	33.4%	2,159	3.0%	105	0.1%	21796	30.2%	72041
Dorchester	6,127	44.4%	7,351	53.3%	321	2.3%	15	0.1%	-1224	-8.9%	13814
Frederick	52,651	46.0%	57,432	50.2%	4,382	3.8%	163	0.1%	-4781	-4.2%	114628
Garrett	2,402	19.3%	9,655	77.7%	371	3.0%	18	0.1%	-7253	-58.4%	12446
Harford	44,758	35.9%	76,563	61.4%	3,431	2.8%	148	0.1%	-31805	-25.5%	124900
Howard	89,622	60.9%	52,577	35.8%	4,854	3.3%	224	0.2%	37045	25.1%	147277
Kent	4,320	47.1%	4,641	50.6%	205	2.2%	4	0.04%	-321	-3.5%	9170
Montgomery	307,892	74.9%	91,966	22.4%	11,121	2.7%	570	0.1%	215926	52.5%	410979
Prince George's	305,992	88.1%	30,451	8.8%	10,961	3.2%	652	0.2%	275541	79.3%	347056
Queen Anne's	7,834	31.9%	16,178	65.8%	576	2.3%	19	0.1%	-8344	-33.9%	24607
Somerset	3,610	41.6%	4,894	56.4%	166	1.9%	10	0.1%	-1284	-14.8%	8670
St. Mary's	16,338	36.7%	26,395	59.4%	1,730	3.9%	65	0.1%	-10057	-22.7%	44428
Talbot	8,208	43.6%	10,212	54.3%	391	2.1%	18	0.1%	-2004	-10.7%	18829
Washington	21,422	36.3%	35,312	59.8%	2,298	3.9%	89	0.2%	-13890	-23.5%	59121
Wicomico	16,692	43.3%	20,713	53.7%	1,163	3.0%	56	0.1%	-4021	-10.4%	38568
Worcester	9,134	36.1%	15,462	61.1%	690	2.7%	26	0.1%	-6328	-25.0%	25312

District	Van Hollen	Szeliga	Representative
1st	35%	62%	Andy Harris
2nd	61%	36%	Dutch Ruppersberger
3rd	62%	35%	John Sarbanes
4th	76%	21%	Donna Edwards
4th	76%	21%	Anthony Brown
5th	64%	33%	Steny Hoyer
6th	57%	39%	John Delaney
7th	72%	24%	Elijah Cummings
8th	64%	33%	Chris Van Hollen
8th	64%	33%	Jamie Raskin