Maryland gubernatorial election, 2002
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[edit] Candidates
[edit] Democratic Party
[edit] Republican Party
[edit] Primary election
| Democratic primary results[1] |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
Percentage |
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Democratic |
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend |
434,948 |
80.01% |
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Democratic |
Robert Fustero |
108,659 |
19.99% |
| Totals |
543,607 |
100% |
| Republican primary results[2] |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
Percentage |
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Republican |
Bob Ehrlich |
229,927 |
92.88% |
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Republican |
James J. Sheridan |
9,181 |
3.71% |
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Republican |
Ross Z. Pierpont |
8,458 |
3.42% |
| Totals |
247,566 |
100% |
[edit] General election
The 2002 gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 2002. Democratic Governor Parris Glendening was term-limited. Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend won the Democratic nomination, and Congressman Robert Ehrlich won the Republican nomination.
Ehrlich choose Maryland Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele as his running mate, while Townsend choose Admiral Charles R. Larson as her running mate. Larson switched to the Democratic party just a few weeks before the election.
Kennedy's selection of Larson as her running mate proved to be an unpopular move, seeing as he was a white former Republican and had been selected without consultation with black Democratic leaders.[3] Ehrlich ran advertisements assailing incumbent Governor Parris Glendening for the increasingly dismal fiscal situation in Maryland, an issue that resonated with Maryland voters. Glendening's unpopularity did little to help his Lieutenant Governor's flailing campaign.[4]
On election night, Bob Ehrlich beat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, enabling him to become the first Republican governor since Spiro Agnew in 1966.
[edit] Results
[edit] References
[edit] See also
Maryland gubernatorial election, 2006
