1982 primaries · May 1, 1982

1982 Maryland House of Delegates primary results, district by district

Every Maryland House of Delegates district in the 1982 primaries: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Every district

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1A · Republican primaryGeorge C. Edwards (R)8.6Incumbent lost
HD-1B · Democratic primaryW. Timothy Finan (D)15.0
HD-1B · Republican primaryR. Neil Williams (R)4.8
HD-2B · Democratic primaryPeter G. Callas (D)40.7
HD-3A · Democratic primaryPaul Muldowney (D)51.0
HD-3A · Republican primaryD. Michael Auldridge (R)21.5
HD-3B · Democratic primaryJames E. McClellan (D)22.7
HD-3B · Republican primaryJulien P. Delphey (R)14.3
HD-4A · Democratic primaryThomas H. Hattery (D)1.9Incumbent lost
HD-4B · Democratic primaryLewis C. Dixon (D)14.6
HD-4B · Republican primaryVlanny Harchenhorn (R)4.5
HD-5A · Democratic primaryJohn T. Willis (D)4.1
HD-5A · Republican primaryRichard C. Matthews (R)17.4
HD-5B · Democratic primaryLawrence A. Lamotte (D)12.7
HD-6 · Democratic primaryMichael J. Collins (D)20.3
HD-7 · Democratic primaryLouis L. Depazzo (D)5.9
HD-8 · Democratic primaryJoseph Bartenfelder (D)6.4
HD-8 · Republican primaryGary D. Snyder (R)11.2
HD-9 · Democratic primaryThomas B. Kernan (D)14.7
HD-9 · Republican primaryWilliam T. Russell (R)3.2
HD-10 · Democratic primaryBert Booth (D)3.6
HD-10 · Republican primaryEllen R. Sauerbrey (R)15.0
HD-11 · Democratic primaryArthur S. Alperstein (D)20.6
HD-12 · Democratic primaryLouis P. Morsberger (D)3.3
HD-13A · Democratic primaryVirginia M. Thomas (D)10.9
HD-13B · Democratic primarySusan R. Buswell (D)6.2
HD-13B · Republican primaryJulia Brown (R)11.6
HD-14A · Democratic primaryJoel Chasnoff (D)36.4
HD-14B · Democratic primaryHugh Burgess (D)9.1
HD-14B · Republican primaryRobert Kittleman (R)10.0
HD-15 · Democratic primaryJudith C. Toth (D)7.7
HD-15 · Republican primaryJean Roesser (R)12.3
HD-16 · Democratic primaryNancy K. Kopp (D)12.1
HD-17 · Democratic primaryJennie M. Forehand (D)13.3
HD-18 · Democratic primaryPatricia R. Sher (D)9.8
HD-19 · Democratic primaryIdamae Garrott (D)14.5
HD-20 · Democratic primaryDiane Kirchenbauer (D)14.3
HD-21 · Democratic primaryPauline H. Menes (D)5.2
HD-22 · Democratic primaryRichard A. Palumbo (D)16.9
HD-23 · Democratic primaryGerard F. Devlin (D)8.2
HD-24 · Democratic primaryNathaniel Exum (D)16.9
HD-25 · Democratic primaryLorraine M. Sheehan (D)1.4Incumbent lost
HD-26 · Democratic primaryChristine Miller Jones (D)11.4
HD-28A · Democratic primaryMichael J. Sprague (D)4.6
HD-29A · Democratic primaryThomas A. Rymer (D)15.9
HD-29B · Republican primaryFrances D. Tracy (R)11.5
HD-29C · Democratic primaryJohn F. Slade III (D)20.8
HD-30 · Democratic primaryJohn C. Astle (D)5.6
HD-30 · Republican primaryDiane R. Evans (R)9.7
HD-31 · Democratic primaryPhilip C. Jimeno (D)9.2
HD-32 · Democratic primaryPatrick C. Scannello (D)14.2
HD-33 · Democratic primaryStephen R. Beard (D)18.6
HD-33 · Republican primaryElizabeth Smith (R)16.2
HD-34 · Democratic primaryBarbara Osborn Kreamer (D)3.4Incumbent lost
HD-35A · Democratic primaryJoseph Lutz (D)1.5
HD-35A · Republican primaryWilliam A. Clark (R)21.6
HD-35B · Democratic primaryEthel Murray (D)0.4
HD-36 · Democratic primaryJohn M. Ashley Jr. (D)0.7Incumbent lost
HD-37 · Democratic primaryJohn R. Hargreaves (D)9.4Incumbent lost
HD-39 · Democratic primaryLarry Young (D)17.1Incumbent lost
HD-40 · Democratic primaryRalph M. Hughes (D)3.3Incumbent lost
HD-41 · Democratic primaryMargaret H. Murphy (D)10.1Incumbent lost
HD-42 · Democratic primaryBenjamin L. Cardin (D)6.7Incumbent lost
HD-43 · Democratic primaryHenry R. Hergenroeder (D)8.5Incumbent lost
HD-44 · Democratic primaryCurtis S. Anderson (D)4.2Incumbent lost
HD-45 · Democratic primaryHattie N. Harrison (D)3.1Incumbent lost
HD-45 · Republican primaryMary L. Obrien (R)23.4
HD-46 · Democratic primaryAmerican Joe Miedusiewski (D)9.3Incumbent lost

Maryland House of Delegates

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner