1899 Maryland gubernatorial election

The 1899 Maryland gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 1899.

Incumbent Governor Republican Lloyd Lowndes Jr. was defeated by Democratic candidate John Walter Smith.

Candidates

 * Lloyd Lowndes Jr., Republican, incumbent Governor
 * John Walter Smith, Democratic, incumbent U.S. Congressman
 * William Nevin Hill, Union Reform, physician
 * Levin Thomas Jones, Social Democrat
 * John A. Rugemer, Socialist Labor
 * James Swann, Prohibition, Prohibition candidate for Maryland's 1st congressional district in 1898