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2018 United States Senate election in Maryland
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Turnout58.17% Decrease 10.03 pp
 
Nominee Ben Cardin Tony Campbell
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 1,491,614 697,017
Percentage 64.86% 30.31%
Cardin:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Campbell:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Tie:      40–50%      No data
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Ben Cardin
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Ben Cardin
Democratic

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The 2018 United States Senate election in Maryland took place on November 6, 2018, in order to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Maryland. It was held concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Ben Cardin was re-elected to a third and ultimately final term by a landslide margin of almost 35 points, the largest margin in any election for this seat since Maryland began holding direct elections for Senate in 1913.

The primary election for the Senate race was held on June 26, 2018.[1] The incumbent, Ben Cardin, won the Democratic Party primary. In the general election, Cardin was reelected to a third term.[2] Tony Campbell, a professor of political science at Towson University and former Army Chaplain, won the Republican Party primary. If elected, Campbell would have become Maryland's first African-American U.S. Senator.[3][4] Businessman Neal Simon ran as an independent and Arvin Vohra was the Libertarian Party nominee in the general election. There were also several official write-in candidates. With Republican governor Larry Logan winning re-election in the same year, this was the first election since 1974 in which Maryland simultaneously voted for a gubernatorial nominee and a U.S. Senate nominee of opposite parties.

Democratic primary

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Candidates

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Declared

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Declined

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Endorsements

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Ben Cardin

Organizations

Chelsea Manning

Individuals

Polling

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Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size 		Margin
of error 		Ben
Cardin 		Chelsea
Manning 		Other Undecided
Goucher College[22] February 12–18, 2018 409 ± 4.8% 61% 17% 3% 19%

Results

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Results by county:
Cardin
  •   70–80%
  •   80–90%
Democratic primary results[23]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ben Cardin (incumbent) 447,441 79.24%
Democratic Chelsea Manning 34,611 6.13%
Democratic Jerome Segal 20,027 3.55%
Democratic Debbie Wilson 18,953 3.36%
Democratic Marcia H. Morgan 16,047 2.84%
Democratic Lih Young 9,874 1.75%
Democratic Richard Vaughn 9,480 1.68%
Democratic Erik Jetmir 8,259 1.46%
Total votes 564,692 100.00%

Republican primary

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Candidates

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Declared

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  • Tony Campbell,[5] of Baltimore County,[9] political science faculty member at Towson University[24]
  • Chris Chaffee,[5] candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2016[25]
  • Evan M. Cronhardt,[5] of Anne Arundel County
  • Nnabu Eze,[5] of Baltimore County,[9] Green nominee for MD-03 in 2016[26]
  • John Graziani, candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2016 and candidate for MD-04 in 2014[5]
  • Christina J. Grigorian, attorney[5]
  • Albert Howard[5]
  • Bill Krehnbrink, perennial candidate[5]
  • Gerald I. Smith, Jr., conspiracy theorist,[5] of Cecil County[9]
  • Blaine Taylor, perennial candidate,[5] of Baltimore County[9]
  • Brian Charles Vaeth, perennial candidate[5]

Withdrew

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Declined

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Endorsements

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Tony Campbell

State legislators[29]

Individuals

Sam Faddis (withdrew)

State Senators

Individuals

Results

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Results by county:
Campbell
  •   <40%
Chaffee
  •   <40%
  •   40–50%
  •   50–60%
Republican primary results[23]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Tony Campbell 51,426 29.22%
Republican Chris Chaffee 42,328 24.05%
Republican Christina J. Grigorian 30,786 17.49%
Republican John Graziani 15,435 8.77%
Republican Blaine Taylor 8,848 5.03%
Republican Gerald I. Smith, Jr. 7,564 4.30%
Republican Brian Vaeth 5,411 3.08%
Republican Evan M. Cronhardt 4,445 2.53%
Republican Bill Krehnbrink 3,606 2.05%
Republican Nnabu Eze 3,442 1.96%
Republican Albert Howard 2,720 1.55%
Total votes 175,981 100.00%

Libertarian Party

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Candidates

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Declared

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Independents

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Candidates

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Declared

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  • Michael B Puskar, property manager
  • Edward Shlikas, home care compliance manager[35]
  • Neal Simon, businessman[36][37]

General election

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Candidates

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Endorsements

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Ben Cardin (D)

Organizations

Tony Campbell (R)

U.S. Executive Branch officials

State Senators[29]

State Delegates

Individuals

Organizations

Neal Simon (I)

Organizations

Individuals

Debates

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On October 7, 2018, Cardin, independent candidate Neal Simon, and Republican candidate Tony Campbell participated in the sole televised debate of the campaign.[49][50][51]

Predictions

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Source Ranking As of
The Cook Political Report[52] Safe D October 26, 2018
Inside Elections[53] Safe D November 1, 2018
Sabato's Crystal Ball[54] Safe D November 5, 2018
Fox News[55] Likely D July 9, 2018
CNN[56] Safe D July 12, 2018
RealClearPolitics[57] Safe D June 2018

Polling

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Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size 		Margin
of error 		Ben
Cardin (D) 		Tony
Campbell (R) 		Neal
Simon (I) 		Other Undecided
Gonzales Research (I-Simon)[58] October 1–6, 2018 806 ± 3.5% 49% 22% 18% – 11%
Goucher College[59] September 11–16, 2018 472 ± 4.5% 56% 17% 8% 1%[60] 14%

Results

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2018 United States Senate election in Maryland[61]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Ben Cardin (incumbent) 1,491,614 64.86% +8.88%
Republican Tony Campbell 697,017 30.31% +3.98%
Independent Neal Simon 85,964 3.74% N/A
Libertarian Arvin Vohra 22,943 1.00% −0.22%
Write-in 2,351 0.10% N/A
Total votes 2,299,889 100.00% N/A
Democratic hold

By county

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County Ben Cardin

Democratic

Tony Campbell

Republican

Neal Simon

Independent

Arvin Vohra

Libertarian

Write-ins

Independent

Margin Total

Votes

Cast

# % # % # % # % # % # %
Allegany 8597 36.82% 13790 59.06% 746 3.19% 196 0.84% 20 0.09% -5193 -22.24% 23349
Anne Arundel 122910 53.74% 92401 40.40% 10528 4.60% 2674 1.17% 190 0.08% 30509 13.34% 228703
Baltimore (City) 160370 86.95% 16184 8.77% 5596 3.03% 1917 1.04% 375 0.20% 144186 78.17% 184442
Baltimore (County) 197530 60.85% 106275 32.74% 17192 5.30% 3313 1.02% 290 0.09% 91255 28.11% 324600
Calvert 17372 44.51% 19901 50.99% 1273 3.26% 458 1.17% 27 0.07% -2529 -6.48% 39031
Caroline 4265 37.73% 6474 57.27% 451 3.99% 105 0.93% 9 0.08% -2209 -19.54% 11304
Carroll 25986 34.89% 42479 57.03% 5020 6.74% 966 1.30% 38 0.05% -16493 -22.14% 74489
Cecil 13237 38.05% 19851 57.06% 1267 3.64% 412 1.18% 24 0.07% -6614 -19.01% 34791
Charles 44874 69.54% 17872 27.69% 1284 1.99% 462 0.72% 41 0.06% 27002 41.84% 64533
Dorchester 5928 48.23% 5864 47.71% 397 3.23% 95 0.77% 8 0.07% 64 0.52% 12292
Frederick 55256 51.67% 47038 43.99% 3242 3.03% 1292 1.21% 105 0.10% 8218 7.69% 106933
Garrett 2817 25.75% 7801 71.31% 216 1.97% 98 0.90% 7 0.06% -4984 -45.56% 10939
Harford 45921 41.63% 56749 51.45% 6185 5.61% 1352 1.23% 100 0.09% -10828 -9.82% 110307
Howard 96067 66.97% 38797 27.05% 6621 4.62% 1819 1.27% 144 0.10% 57270 39.92% 143448
Kent 4588 53.49% 3490 40.69% 411 4.79% 86 1.00% 3 0.03% 1098 12.80% 8578
Montgomery 314568 77.29% 74924 18.41% 13333 3.28% 3655 0.90% 517 0.13% 239644 58.88% 406997
Prince George's 286975 90.10% 24140 7.58% 5031 1.58% 2031 0.64% 346 0.11% 262835 82.52% 318523
Queen Anne's 8463 37.21% 12813 56.34% 1230 5.41% 232 1.02% 6 0.03% -4350 -19.13% 22744
St. Mary's 16849 41.93% 21393 53.24% 1361 3.39% 559 1.39% 18 0.04% -4544 -11.31% 40180
Somerset 3652 47.09% 3882 50.06% 172 2.22% 45 0.58% 4 0.05% -230 -2.97% 7755
Talbot 9054 50.12% 8050 44.56% 796 4.41% 154 0.85% 12 0.07% 1004 5.56% 18066
Washington 19956 39.59% 28319 56.18% 1598 3.17% 507 1.01% 26 0.05% -8363 -16.59% 50406
Wicomico 16539 49.09% 15644 46.43% 1133 3.36% 351 1.04% 24 0.07% 895 2.66% 33691
Worcester 9840 41.37% 12886 54.17% 881 3.70% 164 0.69% 17 0.07% -3046 -12.80% 23788
Total 1491614 64.86% 697017 30.31% 85964 3.74% 22943 1.00% 2351 0.10% 794597 34.55% 2299889

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

By congressional district

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Cardin won 7 of 8 congressional districts.[62]

District Cardin Campbell Elected
Representative
1st 40% 54% Andy Harris
2nd 65% 30% Dutch Ruppersberger
3rd 67% 27% John Sarbanes
4th 79% 18% Anthony Brown
5th 68% 29% Steny Hoyer
6th 60% 35% David Trone
7th 75% 20% Elijah Cummings
8th 67% 28% Jamie Raskin

See also

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References

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  60. ^ Arvin Vohra (L) with 1%
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