Maryland Election Results 2016: Hillary Clinton Trounces Donald Trump By 30 Percent

UPDATED at 10:40 p.m. ANNAPOLIS, MD — Polls have closed in Maryland in the contentious presidential election between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton. And the first votes have been counted, with the former secretary of state garnering 1,037,334 votes for 62.8 percent of the votes compared with 530,575 ballots, or 32.1 percent for the New York businessman.

The Associated Press, along with CBS, CNN and NBC had earlier all projected that Clinton will win the traditionally blue state. You can check results for all races on the state election board's website; all results are unofficial so far. See national results.

Towson University political science professor Antonio Campbell predicted Monday that Trump would win the presidency. And that seemed more and more likely when he talked to Patch late Tuesday night.

“Once again it’s the economy,” Campbell said. “People are just dissatisfied across the country.”

Campbell said Clinton never connected with core groups that have traditionally voted for Democratic candidates, including blue-collar and union workers. On top of that, young people who voted for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders stayed home in the general election, Campbell says, while women were confused on how Clinton could champion women’s rights when she attacked all of the women who accused her husband of sexual misconduct.

Trump won some of the state's less populous counties, including Calvert, Carroll, Cecil, Allegany and Worcester. The most urban county he won was Harford, with 69,429 votes to 39,934 for Clinton.

Anne Arundel County went to the Clinton ticket, but the margin was narrow; she received 59,451 to 50,481 for Trump.

Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson has received 47,054 votes, while Green Party candidate Jill Stein has captured 21,577 votes.

One high-profile voter — Gov. Larry Hogan, who has said for months that he didn't support Trump and wouldn't vote for Clinton either — wrote in his father's name on his early voting ballot, a spokesman said. Former Rep. Lawrence Hogan earned his son's write-in vote for president.

The elder Hogan was a Republican Congressman from 1969 to 1975, and served as Prince George’s County executive from 1978 until 1982, says WTOP.

You can check your voter registration and polling place through the Maryland State Board of Elections website.

SEE ALSO: Full Presidential Election Results As They Come In

Polling site do's and don'ts:

• You can bring one or two children under 18 years old with you to vote. Under Maryland law, the children can accompany you as long as they do not disrupt or interfere with normal voting procedures.
• You cannot use your cell phone, pager, camera and computer equipment in at an early voting center or at a polling place.
• You can bring any printed material - including your marked specimen ballot - to help you vote.
• Some first-time voters in Maryland will be asked to show ID before voting. If you are asked to show ID, show an election judge one of the following forms of ID:

A copy of a current and valid photo ID (i.e., Maryland driver's license, MVA ID card, student, employee, or military ID card, U.S. passport, or any other State or federal government-issued ID card); or

A copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck or other government document that shows your name and address. Current means that the document is dated within 3 months of the election.

Voters are making a pick for president, with Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump sharing the ballot with Libertarian Gary Johnson, Green Party candidate Jill Stein and independent Evan McMullin. Clinton has led by 30 points in polls in Maryland throughout the election cycle, according to RealClearPolitics.

High-profile voters in others states have received attention for their ballot-box selfies, which are not allowed in Maryland voting booths.

Voters picked Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Kensington to succeed fellow Democrat Sen. Barbara Mikulski over Republican House Minority Whip Delegate Kathy Szeliga.

According to the State Board of Elections website, Van Hollen received 1,251,296 votes, for 62.2 percent, compared with 694,635 votes for Szeliga, or 34.5 percent.

"I want to thank you for uniting behind the common purpose," Van Hollen said in his acceptance speech, expressing his gratitude to voters. He said his vision was for every Marylander to be "treated with dignity and with respect."

He saluted county executives from Prince George's, Montgomery and Baltimore counties and thanked Comptroller Peter Franchot and Attorney General Brian Frosh, who were in attendance, and said he hoped to "try to bring common sense to the Capitol."

A RealClearPolitics average of polls in late September showed Van Hollen with 55 percent support to 26 percent for Szeliga.

All voters will weigh in on an amendment to the state constitution that changes the way the governor fills a vacancy of the attorney general or the comptroller and requires a special election for vacancies that occur on or before a certain date.

If you're turned away at the polls:

Leading up to and throughout Election Day, Civil Rights Division staff members will be available by telephone to receive complaints related to possible violations of the federal voting rights laws (Toll free at 800-253-3931 or 202-307-2767 or TTY 202-305-0082). In addition, individuals may also report such complaints by fax to 202-307-3961, by email to voting.section@usdoj.gov and by a complaint form on the department’s website: justice.gov/crt/votercomplaint.

If you spot election fraud:
Also, on election fraud, "complaints may be directed to any of the local U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, the local FBI offices or the Public Integrity Section at 202-514-1412. A list of U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and their telephone numbers can be found atwww.justice.gov/usao/find-your-united-states-attorney. A list of FBI offices and accompanying telephone numbers can be found at www.fbi.gov/contact-us."

If there's violence or a disruption at the polling place:
As always, complaints related to disruption at a polling place should be reported immediately to local election officials (including officials in the polling place). Complaints related to violence, threats of violence or intimidation at a polling place should be reported immediately to local police authorities by calling 911. They should also be reported to the department after local authorities have been contacted.

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