Incumbent governor Larry Hogan and Lieutenant Governor Boyd Rutherford, both Republicans, were re-elected to a second term against Democrat Ben Jealous, the former NAACP CEO, and his running mate Susan Turnbull.

Hogan became the second Republican governor of Maryland to win re-election, and the first since Theodore McKeldin in 1954.

This was the first and only Maryland gubernatorial election in which both major party candidates received over one million votes.

[123] with Rushern Baker with Richard Madaleno with Alec Ross with Jim Shea with Krish Vignarajah with Valerie Ervin with Kevin Kamenetz with John Delaney with Tom Perez Hogan carried six of eight congressional districts, including five held by Democrats.

This included the district of then-House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, whom Hogan was defeated by in 1992.