page_title: Anne Arundel County, Maryland
section_title: Politics and government
hierarchical_section_title: Anne Arundel County, Maryland / Politics and government
caption_attribution_description: English: The Anne Arundel County Courthouse in Annapolis. Long exposure showing traffic passing in front of the courthouse on Church Circle, June 2005.
context_page_description: Anne Arundel County, also notated as AA or A.A. County, is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 537,656, a population increase of just under 10% since 2000. Its county seat is Annapolis, which is also the capital of the state. The county is named for Lady Anne Arundell, a member of the ancient family of Arundells in Cornwall, England, and the wife of Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, founder and first Lord Proprietor of the colony Province of Maryland.
  Anne Arundel County is included in the Baltimore–Columbia–Towson metropolitan statistical area, which is also included in the Washington–Baltimore–Arlington combined statistical area.
context_section_description: Anne Arundel County has had a charter government since 1965. The government consists of a County Executive and a seven-member County Council. The County Executive and Council members are elected in the same years Maryland conducts its gubernatorial and legislative elections, and may serve a maximum of two consecutive terms.
  The Democrats have the most registered voters in the county, but the large number of Republican-leaning independents means Republicans win more county-wide elections than in other mostly-suburban counties in Maryland. However Democrats are the dominant party in Annapolis city elections. In the 2016 presidential election Anne Arundel County voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by 6,016 votes. It was the first time that the county had supported a Democrat for president since 1964.
  Presidential elections results
caption: Anne Arundel County Courthouse, June 2005
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