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What proportion of Maryland voters are unaffiliated or registered with third parties?
Executive summary
Maryland’s official voter-registration totals are maintained by the Maryland State Board of Elections; local county sites publish monthly snapshots and precinct counts [1] [2]. Independent compilations that break registrations into Democrats, Republicans, unaffiliated, and third parties are available (for example, the Independent Voter Project/L2 Data page for Maryland) and were last updated August 27, 2025 in the search results [3]. Available sources do not provide a single quoted proportion in the materials supplied here; readers should consult the State Board’s registration statistics page for the precise, up‑to‑date percentages [1].
1. Official data exists but isn’t directly quoted in these results
The Maryland State Board of Elections is the authoritative source for statewide voter-registration statistics and periodically compiles and publishes those figures; local boards of elections (county and city) also repost or reference those statewide statistics and produce county-level monthly and precinct-level reports [1] [4] [5] [6] [2]. The materials in the provided search results point you to where the numbers live but do not include a specific statewide percentage for “unaffiliated” or “third-party” registrants within the snippets shown here [1] [2].
2. Independent aggregators give party-breakdown estimates — check methodology
The Independent Voter Project (IVP), working with L2 Data, offers a Maryland voter-registration breakdown by party and states its data were last updated August 27, 2025; that source aims to show Democrats, Republicans, unaffiliated (often called “Unaffiliated/Independent”), and smaller parties, but the excerpted material in the provided results does not print the exact proportions for Maryland within the snippets [3]. If you use IVP/L2 figures, review L2’s explanation of state-specific partisan breakdown methods, because commercial voter-data firms use different tags and estimation rules than state election offices [3].
3. County and city boards provide complementary snapshots
Several county and municipal election offices republish statewide figures or publish monthly registration tallies that include party affiliation counts by precinct and district (for example, Anne Arundel County, Frederick County, Prince George’s County, Montgomery County, Baltimore County, and Baltimore City) [7] [4] [8] [9] [10] [6]. These local reports are useful if you want to confirm statewide totals by aggregating county data or to explore differences in unaffiliated and third-party shares across Maryland’s diverse jurisdictions [7] [6] [2].
4. National compilations can help for comparison but may differ
National outlets that tally party registration across states (for example, USAFacts) publish summary numbers and state-level percentages, and the search results note comparative context such as Maryland’s high share of registered Democrats in national tallies [11]. However, the snippet shows national reporting about Democrats in Maryland (e.g., a claim Maryland had 51.7% Democrats in a national dataset), and it does not explicitly report the unaffiliated or third-party share for Maryland in the excerpts provided here [11]. Use national aggregators to compare trends, but rely on Maryland’s State Board of Elections for the legal registration breakdowns [1].
5. How to get the precise proportions you asked for
To answer “what proportion of Maryland voters are unaffiliated or registered with third parties” with current precision, consult the Maryland State Board of Elections’ Voter Registration Statistics page for the latest statewide totals and party-affiliation table [1]. If you prefer an independently processed breakdown, review the Independent Voter Project’s Maryland page (L2 Data) and read L2’s methodological notes to understand how they classify “unaffiliated” and “third party” [3].
6. Caveats and competing perspectives
State office counts are the legal, administrative record; private data vendors may reclassify or estimate voters differently [1] [3]. County reports provide granular validation but can lag or use different update cadences than the statewide summary [2] [6]. Available sources do not mention the exact, current statewide percentage of unaffiliated or third‑party registrants in the supplied snippets, so any numerical claim beyond what these cited pages show would be extrapolation without checking the live State Board or IVP/L2 pages [1] [3].
If you want, I can pull the current percentages from the Maryland State Board of Elections’ voter-registration statistics page and the IVP/L2 breakdown and present them side‑by‑side with citations to the specific pages.