1992 United States Senate election in Maryland
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Nominee Barbara Mikulski Alan Keyes
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 1,307,610 533,688
Percentage 71.0% 29.0%
County results
Mikulski:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Keyes:      50–60%
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Barbara Mikulski
Democratic

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Democratic

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The 1992 United States Senate election in Maryland was held on November 3, 1992. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski won re-election to a second term.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Results

Democratic primary results by county:
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  •   Mikulski—50–60%
  •   Mikulski—60–70%
  •   Mikulski—70–80%
  •   Mikulski—80–90%
Democratic primary results[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Barbara Mikulski (incumbent) 376,444 76.75%
Democratic Thomas M. Wheatley 31,214 6.36%
Democratic Walter Boyd 26,467 5.40%
Democratic Don Allensworth 19,731 4.02%
Democratic Scott David Britt 13,001 2.65%
Democratic James Leonard White 12,470 2.54%
Democratic B. Emerson Sweatt 11,150 2.27%
Total votes 490,477 100.00%

Republican primary

Candidates

Results

Republican primary results by county:
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  •   Keyes—20–30%
  •   Keyes—30–40%
  •   Keyes—40–50%
  •   Keyes—50–60%
  •   Keyes—60–70%
  •   Cassilly—60–70%
Republican primary second place results by county:
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  •   Cassilly
  •   Hopkins
  •   Keyes
  •   Klima
  •   Meredith
  •   Pierpont
  •   Sobhani
  •   Songer
  •   Zarwell
Republican primary results[1][3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Alan Keyes 95,831 45.94%
Republican Martha Scanlan Klima 20,758 9.95%
Republican Joseph I. Cassilly 16,091 7.71%
Republican Ross Z. Pierpont 12,658 6.07%
Republican S. Rob Sobhani 12,423 5.96%
Republican John J. Bishop, Jr. 9,451 4.53%
Republican Eugene R. Zarwell 6,535 3.13%
Republican James Henry Berry 6,282 3.01%
Republican Romie Allen Songer 6,030 2.89%
Republican Joyce Friend-Nalepka 5,835 2.80%
Republican Edward Robert Shannon 4,578 2.19%
Republican Scott L. Meredith 4,372 2.10%
Republican Stuart Hopkins 3,717 1.78%
Republican Herman J. Hannan 2,771 1.33%
Republican William H. Krehnbrink 1,258 0.60%
Total votes 208,590 100.00%

General election

Candidates

Results

1992 United States Senate election in Maryland[4][5][6][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Barbara Mikulski (incumbent) 1,307,610 71.02% +10.33%
Republican Alan Keyes 533,688 28.98% -10.33%
Total votes 1,841,298 100.00% N/A
Democratic hold

Results by county

County Barbara A. Mikulski

Democratic

Alan Keyes

Republican

Write-Ins

Independent

Margin Total

Votes

Cast

# % # % # % # %
Allegany 16872 64.71% 9199 35.28% 1 0.00% 7673 29.43% 26072
Anne Arundel 121290 67.01% 59512 32.88% 195 0.11% 61778 34.13% 180997
Baltimore (City) 196086 86.79% 29834 13.20% 23 0.01% 166252 73.58% 225943
Baltimore (County) 208164 70.92% 85374 29.08% 1 0.00% 122790 41.83% 293539
Calvert 11980 60.62% 7781 39.38% 0 0.00% 4199 21.25% 19761
Caroline 4622 64.61% 2531 35.38% 1 0.01% 2091 29.23% 7154
Carroll 30495 56.68% 23293 43.30% 11 0.02% 7202 13.39% 53799
Cecil 14744 63.77% 8374 36.22% 2 0.01% 6370 27.55% 23120
Charles 20053 61.71% 12439 38.28% 2 0.01% 7614 23.43% 32494
Dorchester 6346 69.65% 2765 30.35% 0 0.00% 3581 39.30% 9111
Frederick 36788 58.53% 26055 41.45% 11 0.02% 10733 17.08% 62854
Garrett 3473 40.85% 5028 59.15% 0 0.00% -1555 -18.29% 8501
Harford 51096 64.62% 27966 35.37% 4 0.01% 23130 29.25% 79066
Howard 65681 67.47% 31664 32.52% 9 0.01% 34017 34.94% 97354
Kent 4550 72.43% 1732 27.57% 0 0.00% 2818 44.86% 6282
Montgomery 247505 69.99% 105997 29.97% 126 0.04% 141508 40.02% 353628
Prince George's 180129 78.92% 48093 21.07% 27 0.01% 132036 57.85% 228249
Queen Anne's 8079 64.67% 4414 35.33% 0 0.00% 3665 29.34% 12493
St. Mary's 13943 64.87% 7541 35.09% 9 0.04% 6402 29.79% 21493
Somerset 4565 69.75% 1970 30.10% 10 0.15% 2595 39.65% 6545
Talbot 7437 65.20% 3966 34.77% 4 0.04% 3471 30.43% 11407
Washington 24499 61.63% 15240 38.34% 11 0.03% 9259 23.29% 39750
Wicomico 17713 67.19% 8651 32.81% 0 0.00% 9062 34.37% 26364
Worcester 11500 72.93% 4269 27.07% 0 0.00% 7231 45.86% 15769
Total 1307610 71.00% 533688 28.98% 447 0.02% 773922 42.02% 1841745

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democrat

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Maryland State Board of Elections. Elections.state.md.us (February 16, 2001). Retrieved on 2011-06-17.
  2. ^ "Our Campaigns - MD US Senate Race - D Primary Race - March 03 1992". www.ourcampaigns.com. Our Campaigns. n.d. Retrieved April 15, 2023.
  3. ^ "Our Campaigns - MD US Senate Race - R Primary Race - March 03 1992". www.ourcampaigns.com. Our Campaigns. n.d. Retrieved April 15, 2023.
  4. ^ Clerk of the House of Representatives (1993). "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional election of November 3, 1992" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office.
  5. ^ "Archives of Maryland, Volume 0186, Page 0830 - Maryland Manual, 1994-95". msa.maryland.gov. Maryland State Archives. n.d. p. 830. Retrieved April 15, 2023.
  6. ^ "Our Campaigns - MD US Senate Race - Nov 03, 1992". www.ourcampaigns.com. Our Campaigns. n.d. Retrieved April 15, 2023.
  7. ^ "1992 Senatorial General Election Results - Maryland". uselectionatlas.org. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. August 27, 2008. Retrieved April 15, 2023.
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