Friends and Neighbors primary: Maryland style

[RBH]

The 2000 Maryland Senate Primary

https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=2000&off=3&elect=2&fips=24&f=0



Rappaport - 23%
Sobhani - 17%
Pierpont - 17%
Ficker - 15%
Timmerman - 10%
Wayman - 9%
Stafford - 6%
Greyber - 3%

Ficker is best known as being a heckler at Washington Bullets games.

So anyways, four candidates were from Montgomery County (Ficker, Greyber, Sobhani and Timmermann)

Pierpont is from Baltimore County.
Rappaport and Stafford are from Howard County.
Wayman is from Carroll County.

Montgomery County percentages

Sobhani - 31%
Ficker - 25%
Timmerman - 18%
Greyber - 9%
Rappaport - 8%
Pierpont - 4%
Stafford - 3%
Wayman - 3%

So the four Montgomery county candidates finished in the top 4.

Pierpont won Baltimore County with 46%.

Rappaport won Howard County with 53%, Stafford recieved 16% for a second place finish.

Wayman won Carroll County with 42%.

So in the home counties of all the candidates, an out of county candidate didn't finish in front of a home county candidate in any of those 4 counties.

And every candidate's best county is their home county.

And if you take out those four counties, then Rappaport wins the rest of the state with 24%

[RBH]

The 1998 Republican primary in Maryland was won by Pierpont with 18%

Seven candidates won at least one county.

Greyber won Montgomery County with 44% and he won 9% statewide.
Liebman won Baltimore City with 35% and won 8% statewide.
McClanahan won Prince George's County with 17% and won 9% statewide
Stafford won Howard County with 49% and won 8% statewide

Candidate home counties

Anne Arundel: McClanahan, Taylor
Baltimore City: Liebmann
Baltimore County: Asbury, Pierpont, Scott
Carroll: Gloth
Howard: Wayman
Montgomery: Greyber
Prince George's: Stafford

That's not quite as Friends and Neighbor-ish as the 2000 primary.

Plus, the >10% colors don't display on the main maps

[Mike in Maryland]

Since neither of those nominations was worth much, I guess people decided to go with who came from their home area knowing that the winner would not be a Senator, but they at least might as well show some local pride.

A more interesting analysis would be of the 2006 Democratic primaries for Senator, Attorney General, and Comptroller, or the 1994 primaries for Governor in both parties, all of which were competitive.

[RBH]

The 1994 Democratic Gubernatorial primary: https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?f=0&fips=24&elect=1&off=5&year=1994

The 2006 Comptroller primary: https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?f=0&fips=24&elect=1&off=10&year=2006

As for the 2006 Senatorial primary, that race had 17 candidates, which makes it hard to fully enter into the database.