Maryland's 6th Congressional District election, 2024

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Maryland's 6th Congressional District
	Democratic primary; Republican primary; General election
Election details
	Filing deadline: February 9, 2024
	Primary: May 14, 2024; General: November 5, 2024
How to vote
	Poll times: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Voting in Maryland
Race ratings
	Cook Political Report: Lean Democratic; DDHQ and The Hill: Likely Democratic; Inside Elections: Lean Democratic; Sabato's Crystal Ball: Lean Democratic
Ballotpedia analysis
	U.S. Senate battlegrounds; U.S. House battlegrounds; Federal and state primary competitiveness; Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2024
See also
	Maryland's 6th Congressional District; U.S. Senate • 1st • 2nd • 3rd • 4th • 5th • 6th • 7th • 8th; Maryland elections, 2024; U.S. Congress elections, 2024; U.S. Senate elections, 2024; U.S. House elections, 2024; Alabama U.S. House racesAlaska U.S. House racesArizona U.S. House racesArkansas U.S. House racesCalifornia U.S. House racesColorado U.S. House racesConnecticut U.S. House racesDelaware U.S. House racesFlorida U.S. House racesGeorgia U.S. House racesHawaii U.S. House racesIdaho U.S. House racesIllinois U.S. House racesIndiana U.S. House racesIowa U.S. House racesKansas U.S. House racesKentucky U.S. House racesLouisiana U.S. House racesMaine U.S. House racesMaryland U.S. House racesMassachusetts U.S. House racesMichigan U.S. House racesMinnesota U.S. House racesMississippi U.S. House racesMissouri U.S. House racesMontana U.S. House racesNebraska U.S. House racesNevada U.S. House racesNew Hampshire U.S. House racesNew Jersey U.S. House racesNew Mexico U.S. House racesNew York U.S. House racesNorth Carolina U.S. House racesNorth Dakota U.S. House racesOhio U.S. House racesOklahoma U.S. House racesOregon U.S. House racesPennsylvania U.S. House racesRhode Island U.S. House racesSouth Carolina U.S. House racesSouth Dakota U.S. House racesTennessee U.S. House racesTexas U.S. House racesUtah U.S. House racesVermont U.S. House racesVirginia U.S. House racesWashington U.S. House racesWest Virginia U.S. House racesWisconsin U.S. House racesWyoming U.S. House racesSubmit

Maryland 2024 elections

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All U.S. House districts, including the 6th Congressional District of Maryland, held elections in 2024. The general election was November 5, 2024. The primary was May 14, 2024. The filing deadline was February 9, 2024. All 435 U.S. House seats were up for election in 2024. At the time of the election, Republicans had a 220 to 212 majority with three vacancies.^[1] Forty-five members of the U.S. House did not run for re-election. To read more about the 2024 U.S. House elections, click here.

In the 2022 election in this district, the Democratic candidate won 54.7%-45.2%. Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Joe Biden (D) would have defeated Donald Trump (R) 53.9%-44.1%.^[2]

For more information about the primaries in this election, click on the links below:

Candidates and election results

General election

General election for U.S. House Maryland District 6

April McClain-Delaney defeated Neil Parrott in the general election for U.S. House Maryland District 6 on November 5, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	April McClain-Delaney (D)	52.1	182,891
	Neil Parrott (R)	47.9	168,220

	There were no incumbents in this race. Source	Total votes: 351,111
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Jason Johnson (Independent)
Moshe Landman (G)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 6

The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 6 on May 14, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	April McClain-Delaney	40.4	22,985
	Joe Vogel	26.2	14,940
	Ashwani Jain	8.3	4,750
	Tekesha Martinez	7.0	3,992
	Lesley Lopez	4.6	2,600
	Laurie-Anne Sayles	3.2	1,845
	Destiny West	1.9	1,086
	Mohammad Mozumder	1.8	1,005
	Joel Rubin	1.4	820
	Peter Choharis	1.4	818
	Geoffrey Grammer	1.1	651
	George Gluck	0.8	437
	Kiambo White	0.7	401
	Stephen McDow	0.4	246
	Altimont Wilks	0.3	179
	Adrian Petrus	0.3	166

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 56,921
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Mia Mason (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 6

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 6 on May 14, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Neil Parrott	45.9	22,604
	Dan Cox	30.1	14,797
	Mariela Roca	12.3	6,071
	Tom Royals	4.2	2,060
	Chris Hyser	3.3	1,625
	Brenda Thiam	3.3	1,607
	Todd Puglisi	0.9	446

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 49,210
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Heath Barnes (R)

Candidate profiles

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April McClain-Delaney

Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Biography: McClain-Delaney obtained her bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and her law degree from Georgetown Law Center. McClain-Delaney worked in communications law with the satellite company Orion Network Systems before joining Common Sense Media, a nonprofit describing its mission as "building a digital world that works better for all kids, their families, and their communities." McClain-Delaney later served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information under President Joe Biden (D).

Key Messages

The following key messages were curated by Ballotpedia staff. For more on how we identify key messages, click here.

McClain-Delaney said she was running to address the challenges the district faced through a common sense, common ground approach. McClain-Delaney said her background as the daughter of an Idaho potato farmer and a mother to four daughters would help her resolve conflicts and understand rural voters and families.

McClain-Delaney said she had experience working on policies that affect families as well as a record of giving back to her community including in her role with Common Sense Media, as the wife of a member of Congress, and through her volunteer service.

McClain-Delaney said her campaign was "about getting normality into our politics, it's about integrity and good faith, about rebuilding trust in government."

Show sources

Sources: April McClain-Delaney campaign website, "Home page," accessed March 22, 2024, YouTube, "April McClain Delaney - Who Am I," October 25, 2023; April McClain-Delaney campaign website, "Home page," accessed March 22, 2024, Common Sense Media, "Our Mission," accessed March 22, 2024

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Maryland District 6 in 2024.

Voting information

See also: Voting in Maryland

Election information in Maryland: Nov. 5, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

In-person: Nov. 5, 2024
By mail: Postmarked by Oct. 15, 2024
Online: Oct. 15, 2024

Was absentee/mail-in voting available to all voters?

Yes

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline?

In-person: Nov. 5, 2024
By mail: Received by Oct. 29, 2024
Online: Nov. 1, 2024

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot return deadline?

In-person: Nov. 5, 2024
By mail: Postmarked by Nov. 5, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

Yes

What were the early voting start and end dates?

Oct. 24, 2024 to Oct. 31, 2024

Were all voters required to present ID at the polls? If so, was a photo or non-photo ID required?

N/A

When were polls open on Election Day?

7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey responses

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No candidate in this race completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign finance

Name	Party	Receipts*	Disbursements**	Cash on hand	Date
Peter Choharis	Democratic Party	$109,293	$69,612	$39,681	As of September 30, 2024
George Gluck	Democratic Party	$10,291	$10,783	$408	As of September 30, 2024
Geoffrey Grammer	Democratic Party	$551,059	$550,661	$0	As of May 2, 2024
Ashwani Jain	Democratic Party	$105,164	$109,695	$0	As of May 31, 2024
Lesley Lopez	Democratic Party	$193,446	$193,446	$0	As of September 30, 2024
Tekesha Martinez	Democratic Party	$628,572	$424,360	$70,061	As of October 16, 2024
April McClain-Delaney	Democratic Party	$4,394,665	$4,186,833	$207,832	As of October 16, 2024
Stephen McDow	Democratic Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available***
Mohammad Mozumder	Democratic Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available***
Adrian Petrus	Democratic Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available***
Joel Rubin	Democratic Party	$133,133	$133,133	$0	As of March 31, 2024
Laurie-Anne Sayles	Democratic Party	$83,293	$80,991	$2,301	As of September 30, 2024
Joe Vogel	Democratic Party	$806,885	$806,751	$133	As of October 16, 2024
Destiny West	Democratic Party	$15,880	$16,092	$64	As of June 30, 2024
Kiambo White	Democratic Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available***
Altimont Wilks	Democratic Party	$222,682	$222,406	$276	As of August 30, 2024
Dan Cox	Republican Party	$169,001	$168,002	$999	As of September 30, 2024
Chris Hyser	Republican Party	$167,256	$43,353	$123,902	As of September 30, 2024
Neil Parrott	Republican Party	$910,348	$566,733	$373,986	As of October 16, 2024
Todd Puglisi	Republican Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available***
Mariela Roca	Republican Party	$289,671	$289,697	$0	As of September 30, 2024
Tom Royals	Republican Party	$558,345	$553,969	$4,376	As of September 30, 2024
Brenda Thiam	Republican Party	$49,520	$35,474	$14,046	As of September 30, 2024
Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2024. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). * According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee." According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election. * Candidate either did not report any receipts or disbursements to the FEC, or Ballotpedia did not find an FEC candidate ID.

General election race ratings

See also: Race rating definitions and methods

Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:

Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.^[3]
Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.

Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Race ratings: Maryland's 6th Congressional District election, 2024
Race tracker	Race ratings
	November 5, 2024	October 29, 2024	October 22, 2024	October 15, 2024
The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter	Lean Democratic	Likely Democratic	Likely Democratic	Likely Democratic
Decision Desk HQ and The Hill	Likely Democratic	Likely Democratic	Likely Democratic	Likely Democratic
Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales	Lean Democratic	Likely Democratic	Likely Democratic	Solid Democratic
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball	Lean Democratic	Likely Democratic	Likely Democratic	Likely Democratic
Note: Ballotpedia reviews external race ratings every week throughout the election season and posts weekly updates even if the media outlets have not revised their ratings during that week.

Ballot access

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Maryland in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Maryland, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
Maryland	U.S. House	Ballot-qualified party	N/A	$100.00	2/9/2024	Source
Maryland	U.S. House	Unaffiliated	1% of the eligible voters for the district	$100.00	8/5/2024	Source

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

District map - A map of the district in place for the election.
Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

District map

State party control

Below was the map in use at the time of the election. Click the map below to enlarge it.

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2024

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Maryland.

Maryland U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024
Office	Districts/ offices	Seats	Open seats	Candidates	Possible primaries	Contested Democratic primaries	Contested Republican primaries	% of contested primaries	Incumbents in contested primaries	% of incumbents in contested primaries
2024	8	8	3	87	16	8	6	87.5%	5	83.3%
2022	8	8	1	65	16	8	7	93.8%	6	85.7%
2020	8	8	0	79	16	8	8	100.0%	8	100.0%
2018	8	8	1	55	16	7	7	87.5%	6	85.7%
2016	8	8	2	60	16	7	8	93.8%	5	83.3%
2014	8	8	0	35	16	6	6	75.0%	6	75.0%

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Maryland in 2024. Information below was calculated on March 19, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Eighty-seven candidates ran for Maryland’s eight U.S. House districts, including 58 Democrats and 29 Republicans. That’s 10.88 candidates per district, more than in the previous three election cycles. There were 8.12 candidates per district in 2022, 9.87 candidates per district in 2020, and 6.87 in 2018.

The total number of candidates who ran for the U.S. House in 2024 is also higher than any other year this decade.

Three districts—the 2nd, the 3rd, and the 6th—were open, meaning no incumbents ran. That’s the most open districts in an election cycle this decade.

Rep. David Trone (D-6th) did not run for re-election in order to run for the U.S. Senate, while Reps. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-2nd) and John Sarbanes (D-3rd) retired from public office.

Thirty-one candidates—22 Democrats and nine Republicans—ran for the open 3rd Congressional District, the most candidates that ran for a district in 2024.

Fourteen primaries—eight Democratic and six Republican—were contested in 2024. Fifteen primaries were contested in 2022, 16 primaries were contested in 2020, and 14 were in 2018.

Five incumbents—four Democrats and one Republican—faced primary challengers in 2024. That's fewer than in 2022, when six incumbents faced challengers, in 2020 when eight incumbents faced challengers, and in 2018, when six did.

Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all eight districts, meaning no seats were guaranteed to either party.

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2024 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+2. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 2 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Maryland's 6th the 197th most Democratic district nationally.^[7]

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in Maryland's 6th based on 2024 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
53.9%	44.1%

Inside Elections Baselines

See also: Inside Elections

Inside Elections' Baseline is a figure that analyzes all federal and statewide election results from the district over the past four election cycles. The results are combined in an index estimating the strength of a typical Democratic or Republican candidate in the congressional district.^[8] The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.

Inside Elections Baseline for 2024
Democratic Baseline	Republican Baseline	Difference
52.1	45.8	D+6.4

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in Maryland, 2020

Maryland presidential election results (1900-2020)

21 Democratic wins
10 Republican wins

Year	1900	1904	1908	1912	1916	1920	1924	1928	1932	1936	1940	1944	1948	1952	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020
Winning Party	R	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	D	D	D	R	D	D	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D

See also: Party control of Maryland state government

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of Maryland's congressional delegation as of May 2024.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Maryland
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	2	7	9
Republican	0	1	1
Independent	0	0	0
Vacancies	0	0	0
Total	2	8	10

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in Maryland's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.

State executive officials in Maryland, May 2024
Office	Officeholder
Governor	Wes Moore
Lieutenant Governor	Aruna Miller
Secretary of State	Susan Lee
Attorney General	Anthony G. Brown

State legislature

Maryland State Senate

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	34
	Republican Party	13
	Other	0
	Vacancies	0
Total		47

Maryland House of Delegates

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	102
	Republican Party	39
	Other	0
	Vacancies	0
Total		141

Trifecta control

The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.

Maryland Party Control: 1992-2024
Twenty-one years of Democratic trifectas • No Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Governor	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D
Senate	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
House	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D

District history

The section below details election results for this office in elections dating back to 2018.