2010 Maryland gubernatorial election

2010 Maryland gubernatorial election

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Turnout54.02% Decrease 3.51%[1]
 
Nominee Martin O'Malley Bob Ehrlich
Party Democratic Republican
Running mate Anthony Brown Mary Kane
Popular vote 1,044,961 776,319
Percentage 56.24% 41.79%

County results
O'Malley:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      80–90%
Ehrlich:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%

Governor before election

Martin O'Malley
Democratic

Elected Governor

Martin O'Malley
Democratic

The 2010 Maryland gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 2010.[2] The date included the election of the governor, lieutenant governor, and all members of the Maryland General Assembly. Incumbent Democratic governor Martin O'Malley and lieutenant governor Anthony Brown won re-election to a second term in office, defeating Republican former governor Bob Ehrlich and his running mate Mary Kane.

Ehrlich had previously lost re-election to O'Malley in 2006. O'Malley and Brown became the first gubernatorial ticket in Maryland history to receive more than one million votes.[3][4]

While Ehrlich won a clear majority of Maryland's counties, he lost in the area between Baltimore and Washington, which accounts for more than 90% of the state's population. This allowed O’Malley to win by a relatively large margin of 14.4%.

  1. ^ "2010 Gubernatorial Primary Election - Voter Turnout". elections.maryland.gov. Maryland State Board of Elections. Retrieved May 1, 2022.
  2. ^ "Maryland Elections, forthcoming". Msa.md.gov. November 6, 1956. Retrieved August 21, 2010.
  3. ^ "State Gubernatorial Term Limits". Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved September 9, 2007.
  4. ^ "Maryland State Board of Elections". www.elections.state.md.us. Archived from the original on June 14, 2012.