Electoral History
| Year | Office | Election | Subject | Party | Votes | % | Opponent | Party | Votes | % | Opponent | Party | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Congress, 7th district | General | Elijah Cummings | Democratic | 115,764 | 83.47% | Kenneth Kondner | Republican | 22,929 | 16.53% | |||||||
| 1998 | Congress, 7th district | General | Elijah Cummings | Democratic | 112,699 | 85.74% | Kenneth Kondner | Republican | 18,742 | 14.26% | |||||||
| 2000 | Congress, 7th district | General | Elijah Cummings | Democratic | 134,066 | 87.07% | Kenneth Kondner | Republican | 19,773 | 12.84% | |||||||
| 2002 | Congress, 7th district | General | Elijah Cummings | Democratic | 137,047 | 73.53% | Joseph E. Ward | Republican | 49,172 | 24.61% | |||||||
| 2004 | Congress, 7th district | General | Elijah Cummings | Democratic | 179,189 | 73.38% | Tony Salazar | Republican | 60,102 | 26.38% | Virginia Rodino | Green | 4,727 | 1.94% | |||
| 2006 | Congress, 7th district | General | Elijah Cummings | Democratic | 158,830 | 98.06% | Write-in Candidates | 3,147 | 1.94% | ||||||||
| 2008 | Congress, 7th district | General | Elijah Cummings | Democratic | 227,379 | 79.50% | Michael Hargadon | Republican | 53,147 | 18.58% | |||||||
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