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University of Maryland Baltimore County Institute of Politics

AAPOR Transparency Initiative since August 26, 20251Research draft
Polls since 2024
1
Latest poll ended
September 27, 2026

Polls from the VoteHub polling API, used under CC BY 4.0. Each result links to the pollster's or sponsor's own release. Imported once a day; a poll VoteHub later changes keeps its earlier version on record here.

§1About

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

The UMBC Institute of Politics is a unit of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in its College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; UMBC announced its founding on August 23, 2024, ahead of that year's election.2 Its leadership page names Mileah Kromer as director and an associate professor of political science, and says she earlier founded the Goucher College Poll while directing Goucher's Sarah T. Hughes Center for Politics.2,3 Its mission statement says it produces public-facing research and events, and its UMBC Poll page describes the poll as a survey of residents and voters in Maryland and the Baltimore area.4,5 The methodology statement of its October 2026 release says the poll is funded by the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and surveyed 776 Maryland likely voters by text-to-web and live calls from September 22 to 27, 2026.6

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§2Who it works with

Why this matters: Owners, news partners and the firms behind a poll's interviews shape what gets asked, how, and what gets published.

Part of

  • UMBC College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (2024–now). UMBC's launch announcement places the institute in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, and its October 2026 release says that college funds the UMBC Poll.2,6

Fieldwork or panel by

  • ReconMR. The methodology statement of its October 2026 release says ReconMR provided the sample and data collection.6

Led by

  • Mileah Kromer (2024–now). UMBC's August 2024 announcement named Mileah Kromer as the institute's first director, and its leadership page lists her as director.2,3

§3Whom it works for

Why this matters: A firm that also works for one party's campaigns can still publish accurate polls, but readers deserve to know.

Doesn’t say whom it works for. Its mission statement, leadership page and UMBC Poll page, and UMBC's launch announcement, do not say whether it is nonpartisan or whether it works for candidates or parties.2,3,4,5

Of its 1 poll listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor7.

§4Its polls

The 1 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the fieldQuestionResultWithPaid for bySample
September 22–September 27, 2026Governor · 2026 MarylandWes Moore 51 · Dan Cox 24 · Andy Ellis 3 · Cathy White 3776 LV

§5What we looked for and didn't find

  • No standing news partner was found; outlets repost its releases, but no arrangement was read.
  • ReconMR is confirmed as the data collector only for the September 2026 poll; vendors for earlier waves were not checked.
  • A findings search found no AAPOR statement, court ruling, regulator action or retraction concerning the institute; aggregator statements were left to the separate sweep and not searched here.