- Lead
- 217,621
- Total
- 388,831
- vs nation
- D+57.4
Maryland 8th Congressional District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 250,097
- Total
- 402,305
- vs nation
- D+57.7
- Lead
- 208,606
- Total
- 355,752
- vs nation
- D+56.5
- Lead
- 160,027
- Total
- 344,675
- vs nation
- D+42.6
- Lead
- 156,575
- Total
- 331,843
- vs nation
- D+39.9
- Lead
- 112,634
- Total
- 312,531
- vs nation
- D+38.5
- Lead
- 89,213
- Total
- 279,342
- vs nation
- D+31.4
- Lead
- 68,219
- Total
- 251,580
- vs nation
- D+18.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+56.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 771,5112024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,822 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 273 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $138,3492024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 44.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 16.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 19.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+62.2 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+22.1 in 1952MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Congressional District 12, NY · twin score 95.3
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland 8th Congressional District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
79.9%
321,548 votes · D+62.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 77.4%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
60.8%
34,346 votes · R+22.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1948 · 58.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
321,548votes
79.9% of the vote · D+62.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 296,235 votes
Republican
George H. W. Bush1988
110,977votes
46.4% of the vote · D+6.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 105,670 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
+57.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+62.2 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +57.4 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
+24.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+19.7 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +18.3 pts
Current officeholders
Federal officeholders only. State and local officeholders are planned for the next data pass.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each result reflects the U.S. House district as it was drawn for that election; redistricting has redrawn these lines over time, so they can differ from the current 120th-Congress district shown on the map above.
Maryland's 8th covers inner Montgomery County suburbs and delivers Democratic presidential margins consistently above 30 points, making it among the least competitive federal districts in the country.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 62.2 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 22.1 points in 1952. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 56.0 points.
A population of 771,511, a 44% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $138,349 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Congressional District 12 and Congressional District 8.
The congressional districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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Maryland 8th Congressional District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cd/2408/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.