Biden Wins Anne Arundel County

Vice President Joe Biden has won the election, taking 306 electoral votes to the incumbent’s 232.

Biden also won the state of Maryland, although that was never really in doubt. As some counties are still in the process of counting mail-in ballots as of this writing, the final vote percentages are not yet known, although Biden currently leads by nearly a 2-to-1 margin statewide.

President/Vice President Results

Below are the updated vote totals in Anne Arundel County (Source):

Joe Biden/Kamala Harris (D)	172,823	55.8%
Donald Trump/Mike Pence (R)	127,810	41.3%
Jo Jorgensen/Spike Cohen (L)	4,651	1.5%
Howie Hawkins/Angela Walker (G)	1,247	0.4%
Jerome Segal/John de Graaf (BR)	381	0.1%

Anne Arundel has a long history of being a conservative county, but Biden’s giant 14.5-point advantage is the largest by a Democrat since Lyndon Johnson’s 17.4-point win in 1964, and the largest by any presidential candidate since George H.W. Bush in 1988.

The county has been steadily trending blue since 2004, when President George W. Bush won re-election while carrying Anne Arundel with a 12.5-point lead. In 2008, John McCain led in Anne Arundel by just 1.8 points, a massive drop from just four years earlier. Republican Mitt Romney won Anne Arundel County by just 0.1 points in 2012, and in 2016 Hillary Clinton became the first Democrat since 1964 to carry the county, by a respectable 2.3-point margin. While that lead may not sound particularly large, it was the largest margin of victory for any Presidential candidate in Anne Arundel since Bush in 2004.

Board of Education Results

There are also three seats on the Board of Education up for election this year. The Board is officially nonpartisan.

District 2 (Glen Burnie, Millersville)

Robert Silkworth	17,190	55.9%
Raleigh Turnage, Jr.	13,322	43.3%

District 3 (Pasadena)

Corine Frank	20,642	52.3%
Ken Baughman	18,644	47.2%

District 6 (Annapolis)

Joanna Bache Tobin	18,748	54.7%
India Ochs	15,283	44.5%

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