The 2016 Maryland Democratic presidential primary was held on April 26 in the U.S. state of
Maryland as one of the
Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the
2016 presidential election
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's primaries in
Connecticut,
Delaware,
Pennsylvania and
Rhode Island were held the same day, as were
Republican primaries in the same five states, including their own
Maryland primary.
Opinion polling
Results
Results by county
Hillary Clinton won every county (and the independent city of
Baltimore
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) with the exceptions of
Allegany,
Carroll,
Cecil, and
Garrett counties, which went for
Bernie Sanders
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Note: Maryland is a closed primary state. Turnout is based on registered democrats before the primary on April 26, 2016. Others vote totals consist of votes for Rocky De La Fuente and Uncommitted
Analysis
With its coalition of
African Americans
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and college-educated, affluent
white progressive
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liberal professionals, Maryland was a state Hillary Clinton was expected to win in the so-called "
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Primaries" on April 26. She swept the state on election day, winning the primary by 29 points, a clear difference from
2008
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when she lost Maryland to
Barack Obama. According to exit polls, 43 percent of voters in the Maryland Democratic Primary were white and they opted for Clinton by a margin of 52-42 compared to the 46 percent of African American voters who backed Clinton by a margin of 75-22. Clinton swept all socioeconomic/income classes and educational attainment categories in Maryland as well. She won the votes of people over the age of 45, 75-20, but lost the
youth vote
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to Sanders 52-46. She won both men (55-40) and women (68-29).
In terms of party identification, of the 80 percent of self-identified
Democrats who voted in the primary, 69 percent backed Clinton while 30 percent supported Bernie Sanders;
Independents, who made up 17 percent of the voters, backed Sanders by a 51-39 margin. Clinton also won all ideological groups.
Clinton performed well in the
urban and
suburb
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an parts of the state in and around
Baltimore
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(which she won 63-34), and the
Washington, D.C. suburbs (which she won 71-27), and she also won in the more
rural parts of the state like the
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(which she won 57-37) and
Western Maryland (which she won 53-47), which includes parts of
Appalachia
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.
See also
*
2016 Maryland Republican presidential primary
References
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