Governor

Maryland Governor

Seat held by Democrats · open seat · Election Day was November 3, 2026. The polls shown are the final pre-election field.

PollsWes Moore D +27.051% in the average of 1 pollster since Sep 20
Money—no federal feed for governors
Outside spending—
Implied ratingSafefrom the poll leader's margin over the runner-up

Candidates

CandidatePartyPoll avgLatest pollRaisedCashOutside for / against
Wes MooreD51% (1)51%———
Dan CoxR24% (1)24%———
Cathy White3% (1)3%———
Andy EllisG3% (1)3%———

Unweighted mean of the latest general-election poll from each of 1 pollster since 2026-09-20.

Tracking the poll average daily since November 3, 2026; a chart appears after three days.

Polls 2 in the window

Field datesPollsterSampleResultD − R
Sep 27 from Sep 22UMBC Institute of Politics776 LVWes Moore D 51 · Dan Cox R 24 · Cathy White 3+27.0
Aug 3 from Jul 27Zenith Research for Blended Public Affairs | Perry Jacobson D-sponsored800 LVWes Moore D 58 · Dan Cox R 31+27.0

Money

Governors are regulated by state campaign-finance law. There is no federal feed for them, so this page carries no money figures for governor races rather than a partial or scraped set.

Platform ad spend

Meta's Ad Library Report, Google's Ads Transparency Center and Snap's political-ads library. An advertiser is tied to a candidate only when its name carries the candidate's surname together with this state or the candidate's full name; outside groups that do not name a candidate appear in the state and district totals, not here.

No advertiser on either platform names a candidate in this race.

Meta in Maryland: $795k Oct 25, 2026 - Oct 31, 2026 · Google in Maryland: $34.3M lifetime · Snap targeted at Maryland: $23k in 2026.

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Polls: PollResults.org (New York Times poll data), CC BY 4.0 (1,579 poll questions in the window). Money: FEC candidate totals and Schedule E independent-expenditure totals for the 2026 cycle. Platform ad spend: Meta Ad Library Report (U.S., 7-day preset, read from the report page), Google Ads Transparency Center CSV bundle and Snap political ads library, via Corvus Intel. Snapshot 2026-11-04 00:20 UTC, refreshed every six hours. No model wrote these figures, and no prediction-market price is used. Read how we work, or see the Politics desk for the analysis built on top of them. JSON.