Article: U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Congressional Incumbents Win; Republican Takes Open Seat

Maryland voters reelected all seven congressional incumbents yesterday and chose a Republican for the eighth open seat in the Baltimore suburbs, maintaining an even four-four party split in the state delegation.

Bucking an anti-incumbent mood that bolstered challengers elsewhere, members of both parties easily won their races. The 2nd District seat vacated by Rep. Helen Delich Bentley (R) was filled by another Republican, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., who defeated his Princeton classmate, Democrat Gerry L. Brewster, by a wide margin.

Maryland's three-term Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes (D) won 59 percent of the vote to survive a challenge by Republican William Brock, a former U.S. senator and member ...

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