{"id":11951,"date":"2018-11-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11951"},"modified":"2018-11-28T11:11:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T16:11:52","slug":"courthouse-offices-2018-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11951","title":{"rendered":"Courthouse Offices: 2018 Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-28-at-10.57.56-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11952\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-28-at-10.57.56-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1228\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-28-at-10.57.56-AM.png 1228w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-28-at-10.57.56-AM-272x300.png 272w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-28-at-10.57.56-AM-768x848.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-28-at-10.57.56-AM-927x1024.png 927w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1228px) 100vw, 1228px\" \/><\/a>You can also find the above chart and others on the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1-R48VMFtUyR51zk71biqdR9xyNf1rYnU3LhvnKNQGU0\/edit#gid=998397411\">Seventh State Results Tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The table above shows the party that won the five courthouse offices of State&#8217;s Attorney, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Register of Wills, Judge of the Orphans&#8217; Court, and Sheriff. Montgomery and Harford allocate the Orphans&#8217; Court responsibilities to other officials.<\/p>\n<p>Nine counties have all Republican teams: Allegany, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Garrett, Harford, Queen Anne&#8217;s, St. Mary&#8217;s, and Worcester. In Frederick, all but one judge of the Orphans&#8217; Court are Republicans. In Somerset, the Sheriff is the only Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Six jurisdictions have all Democratic teams: Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Charles, Howard, Montgomery, and Prince George&#8217;s. In Dorchester, all but the Clerk of the Circuit Court are Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>There are at least two officials from each party in six counties: Anne Arundel, Calvert, Kent, Talbot, Washington, and Wicomico. Calvert, Talbot and Washington are a bit of a surprise to me, as they lean heavily Republican in other county and state elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can also find the above chart and others on the Seventh State Results Tracker. The table above shows the party that won the five courthouse offices of State&#8217;s Attorney, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Register of Wills, Judge of the Orphans&#8217; Court, and Sheriff. Montgomery and Harford allocate the Orphans&#8217; Court responsibilities to other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11951\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Courthouse Offices: 2018 Results<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1830],"tags":[2268],"class_list":["post-11951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-elections","tag-courthouse-races"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-36L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11954,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11951\/revisions\/11954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}