List of U.S. State Partition Proposals - Maryland

Maryland

• Three times in the Maryland General Assembly legislators have submitted a bill for the 9 Eastern Shore counties of Maryland to secede from the state and combine with the three counties of the State of Delaware to the northeast and the two Virginia counties to the south to form the state of Delmarva. The most recent was in 1998.
• In September 2009, Frederick County Commissioner John L. Thompson Jr. proposed that the County should secede from Maryland. The proposal failed, with Thompson being the only Commissioner to vote in favor of secession.