Maryland State Board of Elections

Official 2022 Gubernatorial General Election Question Text

: Denotes Winner of the Election

Question 1    
Constitutional Amendment
(Ch. 82 of the 2021 Legislative Session)
Court of Appeals and Special Appeals - Renaming

Changes the names of Maryland's appellate courts from the Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court of Maryland and from the Court of Special Appeals to the Appellate Court of Maryland. Under the new law, judges serving on the Court of Appeals will be justices of the Supreme Court of Maryland and the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals will be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

(Amending Article II, Section 6, Article III, Sections 5, 30 and 52, Article IV, Sections 1, 3, 3A, 4B, 5A, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, and 41E, Article V, Section 6, and Article XVII, Section 3 to the Maryland Constitution)

For the Constitutional Amendment
Against the Constitutional Amendment