- Lead
- 51,054
- Total
- 71,756
- vs nation
- D+72.6
Maryland 23rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 57,089
- Total
- 77,853
- vs nation
- D+68.9
- Lead
- 36,710
- Total
- 56,979
- vs nation
- D+62.3
- Lead
- 36,288
- Total
- 57,431
- vs nation
- D+59.3
- Lead
- 33,380
- Total
- 55,987
- vs nation
- D+52.3
- Lead
- 19,215
- Total
- 50,934
- vs nation
- D+40.2
- Lead
- 14,737
- Total
- 44,347
- vs nation
- D+32.7
- Lead
- 8,811
- Total
- 40,582
- vs nation
- D+13.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+71.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 135,8582024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,211 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 112 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $133,4392024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 17.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 64.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+73.3 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+51.5 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Legislative Subdistrict 27A, MD · twin score 97.9
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland 23rd State House 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
85.4%
66,451 votes · D+73.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 84.3%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
75.3%
2,771 votes · R+51.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 75.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
66,451votes
85.4% of the vote · D+73.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 60,488 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
32,628votes
74.3% of the vote · R+50.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 26,639 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
Kamala Harris2024
+72.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+71.1 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +68.9 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1944
+43.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+36.3 · U.S. D+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +42.2 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
Maryland 23rd State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 73.3 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 51.5 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 71.1 points.
A population of 135,858, a 18% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $133,439 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Legislative Subdistrict 27A and State Legislative District 26.
The state-house 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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