Maryland Primed to Send Three Women to Congress in 2025

Primary elections were held on Tuesday in three states: Maryland, Nebraska, and West Virginia. Runoff elections were also held in North Carolina (find those results incorporated into the complete North Carolina results here). Full results for women in these races are available on this post on our Election Analysis page; there are no undecided races featuring women candidates, so these are the final results for women in 2024 Maryland, Nebraska, and West Virginia primaries, barring unforeseen circumstances.

Among the most notable results for women:

• Maryland is poised to send 3 (3D) women to Congress in 2025. No woman has served in Congress from Maryland since 2017.  
  • Angela Alsobrooks secured the Democratic nomination for Maryland’s open U.S. Senate seat, which is currently rated as “Likely Democrat” by Cook Political Report. If successful, Alsobrooks will be just the fourth Black woman to serve in the U.S. Senate and the first Black woman to be elected statewide in Maryland. 
  • State Senator Sarah Elfreth (D) is strongly favored to win the open seat in Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District, and April McClain-Delaney, deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Commerce and spouse to former U.S. Representative John Delaney (D), is favored to win the open seat in Maryland’s 6th Congressional District.
• Women’s congressional representation is unlikely to change in Nebraska as a result of the 2024 election. Incumbent U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R) is strongly favored to win re-election, and U.S. House challenger Carol Blood (D) will run against a strongly favored incumbent.
• Women’s congressional representation is unlikely to change in West Virginia as a result of the 2024 election. Incumbent U.S. Representative Carol Miller (R), the only woman congressional nominee this year in West Virginia, is strongly favored to win re-election. 
• Women are the majority of West Virginia’s Democratic nominees for statewide elective executive office in 2024. If successful in contests that favor their Republican opponents, they could become the first women to serve as attorney general, auditor, and/or commissioner of agriculture. 

For primary results summaries from other states and full results, including candidate lists, summaries, and historical comparisons, see CAWP’s Election Watch.