- Lead
- 1,281
- Total
- 15,834
- vs nation
- D+9.6
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 2B
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,798
- Total
- 14,658
- vs nation
- D+7.8
- Lead
- 351
- Total
- 13,823
- vs nation
- D+0.4
- Lead
- 2,367
- Total
- 14,196
- vs nation
- D+12.8
- Lead
- 3,027
- Total
- 14,054
- vs nation
- D+14.3
- Lead
- 724
- Total
- 12,378
- vs nation
- D+8.3
- Lead
- 1,422
- Total
- 10,539
- vs nation
- D+13.0
- Lead
- 1,882
- Total
- 9,682
- vs nation
- D+10.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+8.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 43,6252024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,490 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 12.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $52,1202024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 60.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 19.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+51.8 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+8.2 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 168, GA · twin score 82.9
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 2B · 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
75.9%
6,260 votes · D+51.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 72.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
52.5%
3,765 votes · R+8.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 51.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
8,333votes
59.3% of the vote · D+21.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 8,265 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
6,984votes
44.1% of the vote · D+8.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 6,358 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
+48.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+28.9 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +48.1 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
−0.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+2.5 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · −7.8 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | R | 39.4%5,342 | 60.6%8,226 | 13,568 |
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 2B sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 51.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 8.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.1 points.
A population of 43,625, a 60% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $52,120 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 168 and State House District 77.
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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Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 2B. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2402B/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.