1998 Maryland House of Delegates election
The 1998 Maryland House of Delegates elections were held on November 3, 1998, as part of the 1998 United States elections, including the 1998 Maryland gubernatorial election. All 141 of Maryland's state delegates were up for reelection.
Republicans hoped that gubernatorial nominee Ellen Sauerbrey would provide the party with enough coattails to continue making gains in the Maryland House of Delegates. However, Democrats, buoyed by large turnout and backlash to impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton, picked up a net of six seats from Republicans. It would be the first time the Democratic Party gained seats in the House of Delegates since 1978.
Retiring incumbents
Democrats
- District 16: Gilbert J. Genn retired.
- District 24: Nathaniel Exum retired to run for state senator in District 24.
- District 25: Michael A. Crumlin retired.
- District 26: C. Anthony Muse retired to run for state senator in District 26.
- District 33: Marsha G. Perry retired.
- District 34: Rose Mary Hatem Bonsack retired.
- District 34: Mary Louise Preis retired to run for state senator in District 34.
- District 41: Frank Boston retired to run for run for state senator in District 41.
- District 41: Clay C. Opara retired.
- District 44: Clarence Mitchell IV retired to run for run for state senator in District 44.
- District 44: Carmena F. Watson retired.
Republicans
- District 3: J. Anita Stup retired.
- District 6: Kenneth Holt retired to run for run for state senator in District 6.
- District 34: Nancy Jacobs retired to run for run for state senator in District 34.
- District 35A: James M. Harkins retired to run for Harford County Executive.
- District 37A: Don B. Hughes retired.
- District 39: W. Raymond Beck retired.
Incumbents defeated
In primary elections
Democrats
- District 1B: Betty Workman lost renomination to Kevin Kelly.
- District 11: Robert L. Frank lost renomination to Robert Zirkin and incumbents Michael Finifter and Dan K. Morhaim.
- District 25: Brenda B. Hughes lost to Anthony G. Brown, Melony G. Griffith, and incumbent Dereck E. Davis.
In general elections
Democrats
- District 2B: Bruce Poole lost to Christopher B. Shank.
- District 5: Ellen Willis Miller lost to Carmen M. Amedori and incumbents Joseph M. Getty and Nancy R. Stocksdale.
- District 35A: Michael G. Comeau lost to Barry Glassman and Joanne S. Parrott.
Republicans
- District 13B: John S. Morgan lost to John A. Giannetti Jr.
- District 14A: Patricia Anne Faulkner lost to Tod David Sher.
- District 30: Phillip D. Bissett lost to C. Richard D'Amato and incumbents Michael E. Busch and Virginia P. Clagett.
- District 31: Victoria L. Schade lost to Mary Rosso and incumbents Joan Cadden and John R. Leopold.
- District 32: Michael W. Burns lost to Theodore J. Sophocleus and incumbents Mary Ann Love and James E. Rzepkowski.
- District 39: Barrie Ciliberti and Mathew Mossburg lost to Charles E. Barkley, Joan F. Stern, and Paul H. Carlson.