{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-md",
  "name": "Maryland",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/md",
  "slug": "md",
  "state": "md",
  "state_name": "Maryland",
  "state_id": "us-md"
 },
 "question": "How did Maryland vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "Angela Alsobrooks (Democrat) won by 11.8 points",
  "value": 11.8,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2024: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "Angela Alsobrooks (Democrat) 54.6%, Larry Hogan (Republican) 42.8%, Mike Scott (Libertarian) 2.3%",
   "3,021,378 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2024",
 "as_of_label": "2024",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in Maryland since 1976",
   "description": "17 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 16 and Republicans in 1.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1976,
       17.7,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1980,
       -32.334,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1982,
       26.916,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1986,
       21.374,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1988,
       23.6,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1992,
       42.032,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1994,
       18.203,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1998,
       41.008,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2000,
       26.444,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2004,
       31.079,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2006,
       10.011,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2010,
       26.44,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2012,
       29.65,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2016,
       25.213,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2018,
       34.549,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2022,
       31.693,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2024,
       11.801,
       "dem"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1976,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1365290,
    "votes": {
     "Paul S. Sarbanes": 772101,
     "J. Glenn Beall Jr.": 530439,
     "Bruce Bradley": 62750
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1980,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1286088,
    "votes": {
     "Charles Mcc. Mathias Jr.": 850970,
     "Edward T. Conroy": 435118
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1982,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1114690,
    "votes": {
     "Paul S. Sarbanes": 707356,
     "Lawrence J. Hogan": 407334
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1986,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1112637,
    "votes": {
     "Barbara A. Mikulski": 675225,
     "Linda Chavez": 437411
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1988,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1617065,
    "votes": {
     "Paul S. Sarbanes": 999166,
     "Alan L. Keyes": 617537
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1992,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1841298,
    "votes": {
     "Barbara A. Mikulski": 1307610,
     "Alan L. Keyes": 533688
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1994,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1369101,
    "votes": {
     "Paul S. Sarbanes": 809125,
     "William Brock": 559908
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1998,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1507447,
    "votes": {
     "Barbara A. Mikulski": 1062810,
     "Ross Z. Pierpont": 444637
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2000,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1946898,
    "votes": {
     "Paul S. Sarbanes": 1230013,
     "Paul H. Rappaport": 715178
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2004,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2321931,
    "votes": {
     "Barbara A. Mikulski": 1504691,
     "E. J. Pipkin": 783055,
     "Maria Allwine": 24816,
     "Thomas Trump": 9009
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2006,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1781139,
    "votes": {
     "Benjamin L. Cardin": 965477,
     "Michael S. Steele": 787182,
     "Kevin Zeese": 27564
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2010,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1833858,
    "votes": {
     "Barbara Mikulski": 1140531,
     "Eric Wargotz": 655666,
     "Kenniss Henry": 20717,
     "Richard Shawver": 14746
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2012,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2633234,
    "votes": {
     "Benjamin L. Cardin": 1474028,
     "Daniel John Bongino": 693291,
     "S. Rob Sobhani": 430934,
     "Dean Ahmad": 32252
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2016,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2726170,
    "votes": {
     "Chris Van Hollen": 1659907,
     "Kathy Szeliga": 972557,
     "Margaret Flowers": 89970
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2018,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2299889,
    "votes": {
     "Ben Cardin": 1491614,
     "Tony Campbell": 697017,
     "Neal Simon": 85964,
     "Arvin Vohra": 22943
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2022,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2002336,
    "votes": {
     "Chris Van Hollen": 1316897,
     "Chris Chaffee": 682293
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2024,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3021378,
    "votes": {
     "Angela Alsobrooks": 1650912,
     "Larry Hogan": 1294344,
     "Mike Scott": 69396
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2024",
    "Angela Alsobrooks (D) 54.6%",
    "Larry Hogan (R) 42.8%",
    "11.8 pts",
    "3,021,378"
   ],
   [
    "2022",
    "Chris Van Hollen (D) 65.8%",
    "Chris Chaffee (R) 34.1%",
    "31.7 pts",
    "2,002,336"
   ],
   [
    "2018",
    "Ben Cardin (D) 64.9%",
    "Tony Campbell (R) 30.3%",
    "34.5 pts",
    "2,299,889"
   ],
   [
    "2016",
    "Chris Van Hollen (D) 60.9%",
    "Kathy Szeliga (R) 35.7%",
    "25.2 pts",
    "2,726,170"
   ],
   [
    "2012",
    "Benjamin L. Cardin (D) 56.0%",
    "Daniel John Bongino (R) 26.3%",
    "29.6 pts",
    "2,633,234"
   ],
   [
    "2010",
    "Barbara Mikulski (D) 62.2%",
    "Eric Wargotz (R) 35.8%",
    "26.4 pts",
    "1,833,858"
   ],
   [
    "2006",
    "Benjamin L. Cardin (D) 54.2%",
    "Michael S. Steele (R) 44.2%",
    "10.0 pts",
    "1,781,139"
   ],
   [
    "2004",
    "Barbara A. Mikulski (D) 64.8%",
    "E. J. Pipkin (R) 33.7%",
    "31.1 pts",
    "2,321,931"
   ],
   [
    "2000",
    "Paul S. Sarbanes (D) 63.2%",
    "Paul H. Rappaport (R) 36.7%",
    "26.4 pts",
    "1,946,898"
   ],
   [
    "1998",
    "Barbara A. Mikulski (D) 70.5%",
    "Ross Z. Pierpont (R) 29.5%",
    "41.0 pts",
    "1,507,447"
   ],
   [
    "1994",
    "Paul S. Sarbanes (D) 59.1%",
    "William Brock (R) 40.9%",
    "18.2 pts",
    "1,369,101"
   ],
   [
    "1992",
    "Barbara A. Mikulski (D) 71.0%",
    "Alan L. Keyes (R) 29.0%",
    "42.0 pts",
    "1,841,298"
   ],
   [
    "1988",
    "Paul S. Sarbanes (D) 61.8%",
    "Alan L. Keyes (R) 38.2%",
    "23.6 pts",
    "1,617,065"
   ],
   [
    "1986",
    "Barbara A. Mikulski (D) 60.7%",
    "Linda Chavez (R) 39.3%",
    "21.4 pts",
    "1,112,637"
   ],
   [
    "1982",
    "Paul S. Sarbanes (D) 63.5%",
    "Lawrence J. Hogan (R) 36.5%",
    "26.9 pts",
    "1,114,690"
   ],
   [
    "1980",
    "Charles Mcc. Mathias Jr. (R) 66.2%",
    "Edward T. Conroy (D) 33.8%",
    "32.3 pts",
    "1,286,088"
   ],
   [
    "1976",
    "Paul S. Sarbanes (D) 56.6%",
    "J. Glenn Beall Jr. (R) 38.9%",
    "17.7 pts",
    "1,365,290"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "api": {
  "now": "/data/places/us-md/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}