
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, November 17, 1994                   TAG: 9411170132
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A12   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: BALTIMORE                                 LENGTH: Short

DEMOCRAT WINS MD. RACE, BARELY

A weeklong count of absentee ballots has lifted Democrat Parris Glendening to a paper-thin victory in the governor's race, giving his party only its 10th gubernatorial win in this year's elections.

The unofficial tally gave Glendening 706,531 votes to 701,126 for Republican Ellen Sauerbrey, with a handful of absentee ballots from overseas still to be counted.

The 5,405-vote margin amounted to a quarter of 1 percent of the more than 1.4 million votes cast. Elected with Glendening was his lieutenant governor, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the eldest daughter of Sen. Robert Kennedy. She ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1986.

Sauerbrey, seeking to become the state's first female governor and the first Republican since Spiro Agnew in 1966, refused to concede. Her aides said they might ask a judge to overturn the election.

Glendening dismissed claims of voting irregularities.

by CNB