1990 Maryland House of Delegates election
The 1990 Maryland House of Delegates elections were held on November 6, 1990, as part of the 1990 United States elections, including the 1990 Maryland gubernatorial election. All 141 of Maryland's state delegates were up for reelection.
Retiring incumbents
Democrats
- District 17: Mary H. Boergers retired to run for state senator in District 17.
- District 18: Patricia R. Sher retired to run for state senator in District 17.
- District 22: Anne MacKinnon retired to run for the Prince George's County Council.
- District 25: Juanita Miller retired to run for state senator in District 25.
- District 25: Dennis C. Donaldson retired.
- District 26: Gloria G. Lawlah retired to run for state senator in District 26.
- District 30: Donald E. Lamb retired.
- District 32: George Schmincke retired.
- District 34: Barbara Osborn Kreamer retired to run for Congress in Maryland's 1st congressional district.
- District 34: Eileen M. Rehrmann retired to run for Harford County Executive.
- District 36: John M. Ashley Jr. retired.
- District 38: Shirley W. Pilchard retired.
- District 40: Ralph M. Hughes retired to run for state senator in District 40.
- District 46: Donald G. Hammen retired.
Republicans
- District 2C: Donald F. Munson retired to run for state senator in District 2.
- District 31: John R. Leopold retired to run for state senator in District 31.
- District 34: Richard F. Colburn retired to run for Congress in Maryland's 1st congressional district.
Incumbents defeated
In primary elections
Democrats
- District 6: R. Terry Connelly lost renomination to Leslie E. Hutchinson and incumbents E. Farrell Maddox and Michael H. Weir.
- District 7: Joseph J. Minnick lost renomination to Connie C. Galiazzo and incumbents John S. Arnick and Louis L. DePazzo.
- District 18: C. Lawrence Wiser lost renomination to Chris Van Hollen, John Adams Hurson, and incumbent Patricia H. Billings.
- District 22: M. Teresa O'Hare Johnson lost renomination to Paul G. Pinsky, Anne Healey, and incumbent Richard A. Palumbo.
- District 24: Carolyn J. B. Howard lost renomination to Joanne C. Benson and incumbents Nathaniel Exum and Sylvania W. Woods Jr.
- District 28A: Samuel C. Linton lost renomination to Stephen J. Braun and incumbent Michael J. Sprague.
- District 37: Philip C. Foster lost renomination to Samuel Q. Johnson III, Robert A. Thornton Jr., and Don William Bradley.
- District 42: David B. Shapiro lost renomination to Delores G. Kelley and incumbents James W. Campbell and Samuel I. Rosenberg.
In general elections
Democrats
- District 3A: Royd R. Smith lost to J. Anita Stup and incumbent James E. McClellan.
- District 8: William J. Burgess and Donna M. Felling lost to Alfred W. Redmer Jr., James F. Ports Jr., and incumbent Joseph Bartenfelder.
- District 9: Michael U. Gisriel lost to Gerry L. Brewster and incumbents John J. Bishop and Martha Scanlan Klima.
- District 13B: Robert J. DiPietro and William C. Bevan lost to Martin G. Madden and John S. Morgan.
- District 34: William H. Cox Jr. lost to Rose Mary Hatem Bonsack, Mary Louise Preis, and David R. Craig.
- District 35A: Joseph Lutz lost to Donald C. Fry and James M. Harkins.