Attorney General — Maryland
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What this office is
The Attorney General of Maryland is the state’s lawyer. One office. The whole state. The term is four years. The next regular election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Confirm the clock, and the Attorney General of record, on official Maryland sites. This office has no term limit — that is a clock fact, not a crown.
This is not the Governor. The Governor file lives at Governor of Maryland. This is not a United States Attorney. This is not a State’s Attorney. This office is the lawyer for Maryland.
Annapolis is the capital, in Anne Arundel County. Baltimore is the largest city. Baltimore is not the capital. Twenty-three counties plus Baltimore City hire the same Attorney General — the Eastern Shore, Western Maryland, the Chesapeake working water, Southern Maryland, and the counties that touch the District of Columbia included. Baltimore City is not a county and not the capital.
This page is Side One. For this cycle, use the election twin.
Confirm the Attorney General of record on oag.maryland.gov.
How the job fits this community
The inbox is a state inbox: a capital file from the State House that is not Inner Harbor, a Shore consumer file from a county that never makes a Beltway broadcast, a mountain file west of Hagerstown, a port-and-bridge file, and a public-integrity file that is not a Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s docket.
Staff who only know Baltimore, or only know the capital Beltway as the whole state, are not doing the job. Virginia is a different state. Delaware is a different state. Pennsylvania is a different state. The District of Columbia is not Maryland. The Shore remains Maryland.
What the job entails
- Represent the state. Not a legislator. Not the Governor.
- Opinions where Maryland law actually gives them.
- Civil and criminal matters the constitution and statutes actually assign — not every State’s Attorney’s case.
- Consumer and public-integrity files that are state files.
- Two homes. Annapolis for the capital job. The rest of the state for the people who hired the office.
Place snapshot (verify official sources)
- State: Maryland · Office: Attorney General
- Next regular election: 3 November 2026
- Always verify on oag.maryland.gov
What this is not
- Not the Governor. Not a U.S. Attorney. Not a State’s Attorney.
- Not a United States Senator. Maryland has no 2026 Senate race (Class I next 2030, Class III next 2028).
- Not the Mayor of Baltimore. Not the Mayor of Annapolis.
- Not a campaign flyer.
Official doors
- Office of the Attorney General
- Maryland State Board of Elections
- Office of the Attorney General of Maryland
The arena: 2026 election — Attorney General of Maryland