Sheriff Election — St. Mary's County, Maryland
St. Mary's Sheriff · the arena · the first county hires this desk in 2026
The 2026 oval on Maryland's first county
This page is the arena for this office. Unique teaching for the job lives on the office twin. The county as a place is taught at St. Mary's County.
It is not a campaign. Names belong on the official sample ballot. No crown.
Leonardtown hires a peninsula Sheriff who still holds the jail
Article IV, § 44: four years. The SBE 2026 offices page lists Sheriff as a local office on the gubernatorial ballot — same even-year Tuesday as Governor, Attorney General, State Senate, and House of Delegates.
- Closed primary: Tuesday, 23 June 2026 (already sat).
- General: Tuesday, 3 November 2026.
- Qualify / enter: Art. XVII § 4 — as soon as practicable; immediately upon qualification.
- Vacancy: Governor appointment for the remainder.
The Governor is 2026. That is not this oval. Five Commissioners sit on a traditional commission map — not this oval. Class II U.S. Senate is not a 2026 Maryland race. A Pennsylvania St. Marys rumor does not hire this badge. Historic St. Mary's City is not this oval’s capital.
Board of Elections sits on Hollywood Road
23250 Hollywood Road, Leonardtown, MD 20650 (mail: P.O. Box 197). Not 23150 Leonard Hall Drive. Not 41880 Baldridge Street. Not Lexington Park. Not Historic St. Mary's City. Confirm registration, sample ballot, early voting (22–29 October 2026 on the live SBE page), and mail-in on elections.maryland.gov and voter lookup.
Sample ballot in Leonardtown, not Lexington Park
Do not take names from a Navy rumor or a Pennsylvania postcard.
- Official candidate list / sample ballot — Maryland SBE
- Voter lookup
- Current Sheriff of record — official St. Mary's County Sheriff listing
If a site and the official sample ballot disagree, the sample ballot wins.
What you are hiring — patrol and Baldridge Street custody
You are hiring the Sheriff of St. Mary's County — primary patrol, warrants, civil process, Circuit Court security, and the Detention and Rehabilitation Center at 41880 Baldridge Street. You are not hiring a County Police Department. You are not hiring NAS police. You are not hiring the Governor.
Read the office page for Baldridge Street as this jailer.
Remedy when a writ misses Mechanicsville
A bad service or a paper that missed Charlotte Hall — this Sheriff’s door and the courts. Five commissioners are not the internal-affairs substitute for a paper. Not a comment section. Not La Plata.
Relief when the Potomac comes up at Piney Point
A Potomac flood, ice on Maryland 5, a closure at Point Lookout — this county’s mutual aid first. Charles’s Crain Highway is a different count. Calvert’s peninsula is a different count.
Service — four districts, papers, a night count at Baldridge
Papers. A Court House Drive courtroom. Night hours the office actually posts. 911 in unincorporated Lexington Park remains this badge. The count at 41880 remains this badge.
Due process does not wait for a Pennsylvania St. Marys rumor
A levy in Valley Lee still needs notice. Confirmation of sale is still the court. The Constitution does not pause because a visitor photographed a different St. Marys.
Rights from Charlotte Hall to Point Lookout
Equal protection on the peninsula map. Counsel. Property. Humane custody. A waterman at Piney Point and a worker at Lexington Park hire the same Sheriff.