MARYLAND (WBFF) — Flurries of robust activity early in the morning gave way to light turnout at polling places in Baltimore and beyond as voters made their preferences felt in primary elections across Maryland on the first election day of 2026 Tuesday.
Poll workers at Margaret Brent Elementary School in Baltimore’s Remington neighborhood said the site was packed starting at 7 a.m., when polls opened for the city’s Democratic and Republican voters to start choosing who will represent their parties in November’s general election.
Voters also were lined up and waiting at 7 as workers finished setting up for the day at the Canton Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. “Things were pretty fluid early,” said poll worker Andre Branch. And lines remained steady through 11 a.m. at Havre de Grace Middle/High School in Harford County, where 205 people had voted by 11 a.m.,118 of them Republican, poll workers said.
It was a promising start to a day when voters would decide the outcome of hundreds of individual primary races. They include contests to choose the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor, all eight Maryland seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, about 30 contested state Senate seats and about 80 contested House of Delegates seats.
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