FEC WINNER INDICATOR
Ben Cardin
1,491,614 votes · 64.86%
- Final vote total
- 2,299,889
- Final margin
- 794,597
- Decision stage
- General election
- Certification
- Official historical result
Official certified result · November 6, 2018
2018 Maryland U.S. Senate Election Results.
The FEC publication records Ben Cardin as the winner. These are historical certified totals—not an election-night projection or race call.
Maryland U.S. SenateGeneral election8 general candidatesSource: FEC
Official candidate totals
General election results
Fusion-party lines are combined only when the official publication reports the same named candidate on multiple party lines. Generic write-in, blank, invalid, and other non-person rows remain separate below.
| Candidate | Party label(s) | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben CardinIncumbentWinner | D | 1,491,614 | 64.86% |
| Tony Cambell | R | 697,017 | 30.31% |
| Neal Simon | UN | 85,964 | 3.74% |
| Arvin Vohra | LIB | 22,943 | 1.0% |
| Scattered | W | 1,650 | 0.07% |
| Lih Young | D + W | 364 | 0.02% |
| Michael B. Puskar | W | 247 | 0.01% |
| Edward Shlikas | W | 90 | 0.0% |
Election.org calculation: the final margin is 794,597 votes, subtracting the second-highest published final total from the highest. The official publication does not publish this page's margin field separately.
Show primary and nomination results (20 candidates)
Ben CardinIncumbent
D primary477,44180.28%
R primary51,42629.22%
LIB primaryNot reported—
D primary9,8741.66%
R primary2,7201.55%
R primary3,6062.05%
R primary8,8485.03%
R primary5,4113.07%
D primary34,6115.82%
R primary42,32824.05%
R primary30,75617.48%
D primary18,9533.19%
D primary8,2591.39%
R primary4,4452.53%
R primary7,5644.3%
D primary20,0273.37%
R primary15,4358.77%
D primary16,0472.7%
R primary3,4421.96%
D primary9,4801.59%
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Yes. This is the FEC's biennial Federal Elections 2018 publication, compiled from results officially reported by state and territory election offices.
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