- Lead
- 17,234
- Total
- 75,442
- vs nation
- R+21.4
Maryland 36th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 14,209
- Total
- 70,936
- vs nation
- R+24.5
- Lead
- 16,561
- Total
- 62,511
- vs nation
- R+28.6
- Lead
- 10,323
- Total
- 60,402
- vs nation
- R+20.9
- Lead
- 8,439
- Total
- 59,689
- vs nation
- R+21.4
- Lead
- 11,244
- Total
- 53,467
- vs nation
- R+18.6
- Lead
- 5,071
- Total
- 42,386
- vs nation
- R+12.5
- Lead
- 1,423
- Total
- 35,876
- vs nation
- R+12.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+22.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 134,8182024 5-year
- Population density
- 139 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 967 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $92,8602024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 78.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+30.5 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+36.9 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Legislative Subdistrict 2A, MD · twin score 89.9
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland 36th 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
65.3%
13,785 votes · D+30.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 63.6%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
67.6%
14,801 votes · R+36.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 64.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
28,093votes
37.2% of the vote · R+22.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 27,419 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
45,327votes
60.1% of the vote · R+22.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 41,628 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
John W. Davis1924
+40.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+15.4 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +37.0 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+28.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+26.5 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +24.5 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.
Anchored in the rural and small-town communities of Western Maryland, District 36 delivered a 22.8-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, making it a consistent outlier in an otherwise heavily Democratic state.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 30.5 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 36.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 22.8 points.
A population of 134,818, a 78% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $92,860 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Legislative Subdistrict 2A and State House District 31.
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 36th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/24036/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.