1988 United States Senate election in Maryland

Summary

The 1988 United States Senate Election in Maryland was held on November 8, 1988. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes was reelected to a third term in a landslide. As in 1982, Sarbanes won strongly Republican Garrett County, which has never supported a Democratic presidential candidate and has not voted Democratic in a Senate election since this election. This is the last time that Maryland voted for a Senate candidate and a presidential candidate of different political parties.

1988 United States Senate election in Maryland

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Nominee Paul Sarbanes Alan Keyes
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 999,166 617,537
Percentage 61.79% 38.19%

County results
Sarbanes:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Keyes:      50–60%

U.S. senator before election

Paul Sarbanes
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Paul Sarbanes
Democratic

Candidates edit

Democratic edit

Republican edit

Results edit

General election results[1][2][3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Paul Sarbanes (incumbent) 999,166 61.79%
Republican Alan Keyes 617,537 38.19%
Independent Imad A. Ahmad (Write-in) 349 0.02%
Independent Rashaad Ali (Write-in) 13 0.00%
Total votes 1,617,065 100.0%
Democratic hold

Results by county edit

County Paul S. Sarbanes

Democratic

Alan Keyes

Republican

Rashaad Ali

Independent

Imad A. Ahmad

Independent

Margin Total

Votes

Cast

# % # % # % # % # %
Allegany 14991 59.38% 10254 40.62% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 4737 18.76% 25245
Anne Arundel 77647 54.41% 65053 45.58% 2 0.00% 7 0.00% 12594 8.82% 142709
Baltimore (City) 175059 79.82% 44231 20.17% 6 0.00% 22 0.01% 130828 59.65% 219318
Baltimore (County) 157701 58.63% 111251 41.36% 1 0.00% 15 0.01% 46450 17.27% 268968
Calvert 7915 50.08% 7890 49.92% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 25 0.16% 15805
Caroline 3543 55.50% 2841 44.50% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 702 11.00% 6384
Carroll 19305 46.12% 22551 53.87% 1 0.00% 3 0.01% -3246 -7.75% 41860
Cecil 10607 56.92% 8022 43.05% 0 0.00% 7 0.04%


2585 13.87% 18636
Charles 16238 56.35% 12580 43.65% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 3658 12.69% 28818
Dorchester 4979 56.20% 3881 43.80% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1098 12.39% 8860
Frederick 23997 49.55% 24423 50.43% 0 0.00% 10 0.02% -426 -0.88% 48430
Garrett 3882 51.41% 3669 48.59% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 213 2.82% 7551
Harford 33192 54.25% 27992 45.75% 0 0.00% 4 0.01% 5200 8.50% 61188
Howard 43521 54.30% 36602 45.67% 2 0.00% 18 0.02 6919 8.63% 80143
Kent 3488 59.76% 2349 40.24% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1139 19.51% 5837
Montgomery 198484 62.45% 119155 37.49% 0 0.00% 206 0.06% 79329 24.96% 317845
Prince George's 143485 69.65% 62476 30.33% 1 0.00% 56 0.03% 81009 39.32% 206018
Queen Anne's 5636 53.01% 4996 46.99% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 640 6.02% 10632
St. Mary's 10478 58.98% 7285 41.01% 0 0.00% 1 0.01% 3193 17.97% 17764
Somerset 3200 52.08% 2944 47.92% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 256 4.17% 6144
Talbot 5523 50.40% 5435 49.60% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 88 0.80% 10958
Washington 17513 49.77% 17674 50.23% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -161 -0.46% 35187
Wicomico 12468 52.22% 11406 47.78% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1062 4.45% 23874
Worcester 6314 53.10% 5577 46.90% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 737 6.20% 11891
Total 999166 61.67% 620537 38.30% 13 0.00% 349 0.02% 378629 23.37% 1620065

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Maryland State Board of Elections". Elections.state.md.us. July 24, 2001. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
  2. ^ "1988 Senatorial General Election Results - Maryland". uselectionatlas.org. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. August 27, 2008. Retrieved April 15, 2023.
  3. ^ "Our Campaigns - MD US Senate Race - Nov 08, 1988". www.ourcampaigns.com. Our Campaigns. n.d. Retrieved April 15, 2023.

Notes edit