TheMaryland congressional elections of 2006 were held on Tuesday, November 7, 2006. The terms of all eight representatives to theUnited States House of Representatives expired on January 3, 2007, and therefore all were put up for contest. The winning candidates served a two-year term from January 3, 2007, to January 3, 2009.
United States Representative IncumbentWayne Gilchrest, seeking his 9th term in Congress, faced Jim Corwin, the Democratic nominee and a family physician. Gilchrest's reputation as a moderate Republican built up his popularity and he was overwhelmingly re-elected in this conservative,Eastern Shore-based district.
In this heavily gerrymandered and relatively liberal district, incumbent Democratic CongressmanDutch Ruppersberger faced no serious threat from Republican candidate Jimmy Mathis. Ruppersberger won a third term in this district that includes small parts ofBaltimore and some of theBaltimore metropolitan area in a landslide.
Incumbent Democratic CongressmanBen Cardin declined to seek an eleventh term so that he couldrun for Senate.John Sarbanes, the son of retiring SenatorPaul Sarbanes and an attorney, won a crowded Democratic primary and became the Democratic nominee.Annapolis marketing executive John White was the Republican nominee, and, true to the liberal nature of this district based in theBaltimore metropolitan area, Sarbanes beat White.
House Minority WhipSteny Hoyer, who has served in Congress since he was elected in a 1981 special election to fill the seat previously held byGladys Spellman, did not face a Republican opponent in this election. Hoyer's election to his fourteenth term was never in doubt, however, seeing as this district, based in theWashington, D.C. metropolitan area and southern Maryland, is heavily liberal. Hoyer beat out Green Party candidate Steve Warner and Constitution Party candidate Peter Kuhnert to win another term in Congress.
This district, based in the heavily conservativeMaryland panhandle and the moderately conservative northern suburbs ofBaltimore, has sent incumbent Republican CongressmanRoscoe Bartlett back to Washington with solid margins of re-election, and this year proved no different. Congressman Bartlett facedUnited States Army veteranAndrew J. Duck in the general election, and though he ultimately beat Duck out, it was by a thinner margin than usual.
Incumbent Democratic CongressmanElijah Cummings, who has represented this heavily liberal district based inBaltimore,Baltimore County andHoward County since previous CongressmanKweisi Mfume resigned in 1996. This year, the popular Cummings did not face any opponent of any kind in the general election and he coasted to a seventh term.
Democratic CongressmanChris Van Hollen, considered by many to be a rising star in theDemocratic Party, has represented this staunchly liberal district based in theWashington, D.C. metropolitan area since his initial election in2002. Van Hollen faced no serious threat to his bid for a third term from Republican Jeffrey Stein or Green Party candidate Gerard Giblin, and he crushed both of them in the general election.
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District results
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