Maryland elections in 2026
10 electoral votes · 8 House seats · Mid-Atlantic · 1 statewide race on the 2026 ballot
Maryland Governor: D 62.0 to R 38.0, safe Democratic, well sourced. Moore maintains comfortable lead in rematch against Cox
House delegation as simulated: 7 D, 1 R, 0 tossups of 8 districts swept.
Model readings of live reporting, not polling. The full Maryland board, with sourcing and the county map where one exists, is on the Midterms 2026 tab of the homepage.
How Maryland votes
Maryland is anchored by the Washington suburbs and Baltimore, with conservative rural stretches on the Eastern Shore and in the west. It is strongly Democratic statewide, with federal employment and transportation among its persistent issues.
Its largest population centers include Baltimore, Silver Spring, Frederick. Where a state's people live, and what those places do for a living, is the starting point for how Electorate HQ simulations reason about it.
On the ballot in Maryland
Election day is November 3, 2026. Maryland has 1 statewide race and 8 House seats on the ballot.
Statewide races
House districts
Every House seat is elected every two years. Each district below is listed with the counties inside it, computed from the current Census boundary files, wherever those files give a clean answer. Not sure which district is yours? Use the address lookup below.
- Maryland 1st district: Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Harford, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot and 2 more counties (10 in all)
- Maryland 2nd district: Baltimore, Carroll Counties
- Maryland 3rd district: Anne Arundel, Howard Counties
- Maryland 4th district: entirely within Prince George's County
- Maryland 5th district: Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, St. Mary's Counties
- Maryland 6th district: Allegany, Frederick, Garrett, Montgomery, Washington Counties
- Maryland 7th district: Baltimore County
- Maryland 8th district: entirely within Montgomery County
Find your exact districts
Your address goes to the U.S. Census Bureau's public geocoder to find your districts. It is not stored, and no AI sees it.
Which district am I in? Maryland districts by county
House districts follow population, not county lines, so a single county can hold several districts and a single district can span many. Each county is listed under the district that holds its center, so if your county appears once above, that district holds most of it and is probably yours. If it appears under several, or if you live near a district line, use the address lookup for the exact answer.
Before you vote in Maryland
Registration deadlines, early voting windows, mail ballot rules and identification requirements are all set at the state level and change between cycles, so the authoritative source is your own election office rather than any national site. The federal directory at vote.gov links to every state's registration system, and your county election office publishes the sample ballot that includes local contests.
The ballot section above covers the federal and statewide offices on the Maryland ballot for November 3, 2026. Each statewide race links to a page with current coverage and an AI-generated simulation of the contest, always labeled as a simulation rather than a poll.
Local races
Local councils and commissions, school boards, judges, sheriffs and municipal offices are also on many Maryland ballots, and they vary block by block. Your county election office publishes the authoritative local sample ballot.
Maryland's weight in Washington
Maryland carries 10 electoral votes, which ranks it 19 of 51 by that measure, and sends 8 voting members to the House.
That arithmetic is why the same national argument lands differently here than in a state of another size: a candidate courting Maryland is competing for a specific share of the map, and the issues below are the ones that share actually turns on.
How Maryland is represented
Maryland is divided into 8 House districts, each drawn to hold roughly the same number of people, while its two Senate seats represent the state as a whole. A campaign here therefore runs two different arguments at once: a local one shaped by whichever district a voter lives in, and a statewide one that has to hold together across all 8.
Electoral votes follow the same arithmetic, House seats plus two, which is why Maryland carries 10 in a presidential year and why small states carry proportionally more weight there than population alone would give them. The district list above shows every district on the 2026 ballot and the counties the boundary files place inside each one.
Latest Maryland political headlines
Poll: Wording of redistricting amendment difficult for voters to understandMaryland election board sets mail-in ballot datesGovernor Moore Launches Fourth Class of the Maryland Corps/Service Year Option Program on the Day of Service and RemembranceMaryland Democrats challenge Trump-fueled election fearsMaryland governor touts new quantum partnership with venture capital firmMaryland election deadlines arrive as voting options openMaryland Governor Draws New Boundaries for Data CentersDevelopers say housing regulations drive up costs that price Marylanders out of homeownershipSimulate Maryland
In the Electorate HQ simulator, Maryland is one of 51 delegations that reads current reporting and decides a presidential race issue by issue. Results are AI simulations, clearly labeled, with the reasoning shown for every call. See the methodology for what that does and does not mean.
Analysis covering Maryland
Twenty-six states elect a senator and a governor on the same day in 2026
The overlap between the Senate class and the gubernatorial cohort is a coincidence of two unrelated calendars, and it decides where money goes.
Election night is reported in 3,142 counties and decided in 435 districts
The unit America counts votes in and the unit America allocates House seats in are different shapes, and they do not nest inside each other.
Why this site runs simulations and refuses to call them forecasts
A simulation with no polling input cannot be a forecast, and dressing one up as the other is the most common way election tools mislead people.