In November 2022, Maryland voters will see six candidates for Governor on their ballots, the most since 1938. The 2022 election includes the nominees of all five qualified parties: Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green, and Working Class. Also there is an independent candidate on the ballot, Kyle Sefcik. He needed 10,000 valid signatures by the August 1 deadline.

In 1938 there were seven candidates on the ballot for Governor of Maryland. Ballot access was made more difficult in Maryland in 1941, and made more difficult again in 1957, and then made really difficult in 1967. But it was eased in 1998 by lobbying, and then eased some more in 2003 with a winning lawsuit in state court.