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Article: U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Congressional Incumbents Win; Republican Takes Open Seat
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- The Washington Post
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- November 9, 1994
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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 ...