2002 Maryland House of Delegates election

The 2002 Maryland House of Delegates elections were held on November 5, 2002, as part of the 2002 United States elections, including the 2002 Maryland gubernatorial election . All 141 of Maryland's state delegates were up for reelection.

Retiring incumbents

Democrats 
 District 3: Sue Hecht retired to run for Maryland state senator in District 3.
 District 6: Edmund C. Dotterwiech Jr. retired.
 District 8: Katherine A. Klausmeier retired to run for Maryland state senator in District 8.
 District 13B: John A. Giannetti Jr. retired to run for Maryland state senator in District 13.
 District 14: Tod David Sher retired to run for Maryland state senator in District 14.
 District 15: Mark Kennedy Shriver retired to run for Congress in Maryland's 8th congressional district.
 District 17: Cheryl Kagan retired.
 District 18: Sharon M. Grosfeld retired to run for Maryland state senator in District 18.
 District 22B: Rushern Baker retired to run for Prince George's County Executive.
 District 24: Darren Swain retired to run for Maryland state senator in District 47.
 District 26: Kerry A. Hill retired.
 District 26: David Mercado Valderrama retired to run for Maryland state senator in District 44.
 District 33: Robert C. Baldwin retired.
 District 39: Paul H. Carlson retired.
 District 41: Lisa Gladden retired to run for Maryland state senator in District 41.
 District 44: Verna L. Jones retired to run for Maryland state senator in District 44.
 District 46: Cornell N. Dypski retired.
 District 47: John F. Quirk retired.

Republicans 
 District 4: David R. Brinkley retired to run for Maryland state senator in District 4.
 District 5B: Joseph M. Getty retired.
 District 8: James F. Ports Jr. retired to run for the Baltimore County Council.
 District 9A: Martha Scanlan Klima retired to run for Maryland state senator in District 42.
 District 12A: Donald E. Murphy retired.
 District 15: Richard A. La Vay retired.
 District 33: Janet Greenip retired to run for Maryland state senator in District 33.

Incumbents defeated

In primary elections

Democrats 
 District 6: Jacob Mohorovic Jr. lost a redistricting race to Michael H. Weir Jr., John S. Arnick, and Joseph J. Minnick.
 District 11: Dana Stein lost to Robert Zirkin, Dan K. Morhaim, and Jon S. Cardin.
 District 18: Leon G. Billings lost renomination to Ana Sol Gutierrez, John Adams Hurson, and Richard Madaleno.
 District 20: Dana Lee Dembrow lost renomination to Peter Franchot, Sheila E. Hixson, and Gareth E. Murray.
 District 23A: Joan Breslin Pitkin lost a redistricting race to Mary A. Conroy and James W. Hubbard.
 District 28: Samuel C. Linton lost renomination to Sally Y. Jameson, Jim Jarboe, and Van T. Mitchell.
 District 41: Wendell F. Phillips lost renomination to Jill P. Carter, Nathaniel T. Oaks, and Samuel I. Rosenberg.
 District 43: Kenneth Montague Jr. lost a redistricting race to Curt Anderson, Ann Marie Doory, and Maggie McIntosh.
 District 43: Michael V. Dobson lost renomination to Curt Anderson, Ann Marie Doory, and Maggie McIntosh.
 District 47: William H. Cole IV lost a redistricting race to Peter A. Hammen, Carolyn J. Krysiak, and Brian K. McHale.

Republicans 
 District 4A: Louise Virginia Snodgrass lost renomination to Paul S. Stull and Joseph R. Bartlett.
 District 38A: Charles A. McClenahan lost renomination to D. Page Elmore.
 District 42: Emil B. Pielke lost a redistricting race to John G. Trueschler, Susan L. M. Aumann, and William J. Frank.

In general elections

Democrats 
 District 1C: Casper R. Taylor Jr. lost to LeRoy E. Myers Jr.
 District 7: Nancy M. Hubers lost a redistricting race to Richard Impallaria, J. B. Jennings, and Pat McDonough.
 District 30: C. Richard D'Amato lost to Michael E. Busch, Virginia P. Clagett, and Herb McMillan.
 District 31: Mary Rosso lost to Joan Cadden, Don H. Dwyer Jr., and John R. Leopold.
 District 34A: B. Daniel Riley lost to Charles R. Boutin and Mary-Dulany James.
 District 36: Wheeler R. Baker and James G. Crouse lost to Michael D. Smigiel Sr., Richard A. Sossi, and Mary Roe Walkup.
 District 42: James W. Campbell lost to Susan L. M. Aumann, William J. Frank, and John G. Trueschler.

List of districts

All election results are from the Maryland State Board of Elections.

District 1A

District 1B

District 1C

District 2A

District 2B

District 2C

District 3A

District 3B

District 4A

District 4B

District 5A

District 5B

District 6

District 7

District 8

District 9A

District 9B

District 10

District 11

District 12A

District 12B

District 13

District 14

District 15

District 16

District 17

District 18

District 19

District 20

District 21

District 22

District 23A

District 23B

District 24

District 25

District 26

District 27A

District 27B

District 28

District 29A

District 29B

District 29C

District 30

District 31

District 32

District 33A

District 33B

District 34A

District 34B

District 35A

District 35B

District 36

District 37A

District 37B

District 38A

District 38B

District 39

District 40

District 41

District 42

District 43

District 44

District 45

District 46

District 47

References

House of Delegates
Maryland House
Maryland House of Delegates elections