- Lead
- 1,147,884
- Total
- 3,572,463
- vs nation
- D+33.6
Washington, DC (Hagerstown)
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Vote totals, margins, and source status
- Lead
- 1,391,873
- Total
- 3,579,498
- vs nation
- D+34.4
- Lead
- 1,095,780
- Total
- 3,172,534
- vs nation
- D+32.4
- Lead
- 906,129
- Total
- 3,027,030
- vs nation
- D+26.1
- Lead
- 898,777
- Total
- 2,871,105
- vs nation
- D+24.0
- Lead
- 438,554
- Total
- 2,521,255
- vs nation
- D+19.9
- Lead
- 339,179
- Total
- 2,130,340
- vs nation
- D+15.4
- Lead
- 309,762
- Total
- 1,846,899
- vs nation
- D+8.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+32.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 7,226,2882024 5-year
- Population density
- 595 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 12,151 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $124,7762024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 45.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 22.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 16.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+95.1 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+23.5 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Baltimore, MD · twin score 95.1
presidential history
Party record book
Washington, DC (Hagerstown) · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles · 30 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
68.4%
2,446,721 votes · D+38.9
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 67.1%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
61.5%
121,570 votes · R+23.5
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 58.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
2,446,721votes
68.4% of the vote · D+38.9
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 2,305,250 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
1,157,366votes
32.4% of the vote · D+32.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 1,054,848 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+114.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+95.1 · U.S. R+19.7
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +81.7 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1944
+12.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+4.6 · U.S. D+7.5
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1948 · +10.9 pts
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Some U.S. House rows cover a contest held in only part of this Place — the votes are real, but the total is not place-wide because the rest of the Place had no such race that year.
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 6.4 points more Republican than the rolls.
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
| Year | Total registered | Democratic | Republican | Unaffiliated | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (partial) | 2,684,398 | 1,526,395 | 492,958 | 614,390 | 50,655 |
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−15,531 net domestic migration · 2025
Net −285,513 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
| Year | Net domestic migration |
|---|---|
| 2011 | +27,364 |
| 2012 | +7,003 |
| 2013 | +3,840 |
| 2014 | −21,215 |
| 2015 | −31,582 |
| 2016 | −29,471 |
| 2017 | −18,095 |
| 2018 | −26,348 |
| 2019 | −26,421 |
| 2021 | −37,115 |
| 2022 | −64,797 |
| 2023 | −37,446 |
| 2024 | −15,699 |
| 2025 | −15,531 |
The Washington, DC (Hagrstwn) media market has a presidential record spanning 1892 through 2024. Across that period its aggregated margin moved through a wide range, from D+95 in 1904 to R+24 in 1928. Those two endpoints mark the strongest Democratic showing and the strongest Republican showing within the available record. The area's aggregated margin was D+32 in 2024, on the Democratic side of its historical range relative to the R+24 recorded in 1928. The 2024 figure represents the aggregated total across the market's constituent counties rather than the result of any single community. It stands below the D+95 of 1904. The market comprises 40 constituent counties, anchored by Frederick County, Loudoun County, and Stafford County as its largest. Its combined population was 7,226,288 in the 2024 ACS five-year estimate. The median age across the area was 38.6 in the same estimate. These figures describe an aggregated geography defined by media-market boundaries rather than a single jurisdiction, and the presidential margins reported here are summed across all 40 of its constituent counties.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 95.1 points in 1904 and a Republican high of 23.5 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 6.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 32.1 points.
A population of 7,226,288, a 46% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $124,776 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Baltimore and San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose.
The media markets whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
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Washington, DC (Hagerstown), Virginia. Akashic. https://akashic.app/dma/511/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.