Election 2022

Tia Hopkins of Baltimore and Antonio Bowens of Frederick County have been elected as openly nonbinary members of the Democratic Central Committee. They vow to push for inclusiveness in the state Democratic Party.

In September of 2020, Nick Frisone received an email from the United States Postal Service’s “informed delivery” service notifying him that his and his mother’s election ballots were scheduled for delivery. They never arrived.

Boyd Rutherford teased the idea during a radio interview Wednesday.

Just two Black men have been elected governor anywhere in the U.S.

Maryland Republicans disappointed in Gov. Larry Hogan’s rebukes of former President Donald Trump, his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and his willingness to compromise with a Democratic legislature said their vote for Dan Cox served as a referendum on the state’s first two-term Republican governor in more than 60 years.

Election officials found a discrepancy between the total number of votes in the certified results and the number of accepted mail-in and provisional ballots.

I dropped out last November when I realized it would take more than a campaign to change minds.

With the primary elections over, Democrats have nominated Wes Moore and Republicans have nominated Del. Dan Cox. Both men are unique in that neither has any state public sector executive branch experience.

“I really believe we can change our city around. I really believe that we can have a better quality of life,” he says.

Eight candidates ran for two open positions on what will be a 12-member city school board, and four have advanced: Ashley Esposito, April Christina Curley, Kwame Kenyatta-Bey and Salimah Jasani.

“Renew Baltimore,” a group that sought a ballot referendum to lower the city’s property tax rate over six years, has fallen short of the required number of signatures it needed to get on the ballot.

No Libertarian has won more than 3% in a Maryland election, but David Lashar thinks he could at least double that in 2022

Sam Cogen, a former longtime Baltimore sheriff’s deputy, claimed victory Friday evening in the Democratic primary to be the city’s next sheriff. Cogen was well ahead of his former boss, 33-year-incument John W. Anderson, with most mail-in ballots counted. No Republican entered the race, so the Democratic primary winner will likely become the next sheriff.

Six of the 10 Baltimore County board of education candidates are moving onto the general election this November after the counting of mail-in ballots from the July 19, 2022 primary finished Friday afternoon.

Hanna was to appear beside Bates Friday morning to announce that she was dropping out of the Nov. 8 general election.

Tia Hopkins, a lifelong resident of West Baltimore, is attempting to make history as the first openly nonbinary candidate elected to the Democratic Central Committee, which is the governing body of the Maryland Democratic Party.

The governor’s top ally lost the biggest race on the ticket, potentially weakening his political brand.

The state’s inability to post precinct vote data in real time means outside analysts and enthusiasts are missing a key tool to help verify the accuracy of vote counts.

Challenger Sam Cogen has a 2,473 vote lead over incumbent John W. Anderson in the Baltimore sheriff's race. Cogen continues to maintain a strong lead in write-in ballots, making it likely that he will best Anderson, who has served as sheriff since 1989.

A Baltimore election judge who worked Tuesday’s primary said a severe staff shortage at his polling site nearly crippled the operation.