(Nov. 10, 2016) As was the case in April’s primary election, President-elect Donald Trump won Worcester County handily, garnering 15,910 votes, or 61.5 percent of the total, nearly doubling his opponent’s total of 8,783, or 33.9 percent, according to unofficial totals from the state election board.
Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson recieved 651 votes, and Green candidate Jill Stein managed 227. Stein didn’t manage to overcome the catch all “other write-ins” category, which tallied about 80 more votes than she did.  
During the April primary, Trump won every county in the state, and collected 62.8 percent of the Republican vote in Worcester.
Senate hopeful Kathy Szeliga performed nearly as well as Trump in the county, but lost to Democrat Chris Van Hollen to replace retiring Senator Barbara Mikulski.
Szeliga tallied 15,462, or 61.1 percent of the vote in Worcester to Van Hollen’s 9,134, or 36.1 percent. Interestingly, the Democratic Senate candidate outperformed the presidential nominee by about 350 votes. Margaret Flowers, Green candidate, outperformed Gary Johnson with 690 votes.
Congressman Andy Harris won big again, gathering more votes than Trump in Worcester with 16,755 votes, or 66.1 percent, to Democratic challenger Joe Werner’s 7,674, or 30.3 percent. Werner polled lower in the county than former Sec. Clinton.
Libertarian congressional hopeful Matt Beers was the most successful of the third-party candidates in the county with a total of 907, or 3.6 percent, of the votes.
The school board races, where there were two candidates, were much closer than the general election categories.
Longtime District 3 incumbent school board member Sara Thompson edged out Frank Gebhart 1,867 to 1,724, or 51.6 percent to 47.6 percent.
In District 5 Elena McComas defeated Tom Terry 2,041 to 1,926, or 51.2 percent to 48.3 percent.
District 2 representative Barry Brittingham ran unopposed, winning all but 31 write-in votes cast for others.