- Lead
- 25,396
- Total
- 56,064
- vs nation
- D+46.8
Maryland 39th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 32,650
- Total
- 58,196
- vs nation
- D+51.6
- Lead
- 31,552
- Total
- 55,531
- vs nation
- D+54.7
- Lead
- 23,843
- Total
- 54,066
- vs nation
- D+40.2
- Lead
- 23,319
- Total
- 52,174
- vs nation
- D+37.4
- Lead
- 16,404
- Total
- 49,304
- vs nation
- D+35.7
- Lead
- 12,853
- Total
- 44,141
- vs nation
- D+28.6
- Lead
- 9,700
- Total
- 39,616
- vs nation
- D+16.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+45.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 133,8452024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,664 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 28.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $113,9502024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 25.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 23.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 29.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+56.8 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+25.2 in 1952MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Legislative District 17, MD · twin score 97.4
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland 39th 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
76.7%
44,615 votes · D+56.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 76.6%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
62.2%
5,677 votes · R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1948 · 60.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
44,615votes
76.7% of the vote · D+56.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 42,527 votes
Republican
George H. W. Bush1988
18,244votes
47.9% of the vote · D+3.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 17,421 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
Hillary Clinton2016
+54.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+56.8 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +51.6 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
+27.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+22.9 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +21.5 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 stretches of Western Maryland, District 39 posts presidential margins well above the statewide Republican baseline, reflecting a working-class and agricultural electorate that has trended consistently rightward over the past decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 56.8 points in 2016 and a Republican high of 25.2 points in 1952. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 10.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 45.3 points.
A population of 133,845, a 25% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $113,950 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Legislative District 17 and State Legislative District 19.
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 39th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/24039/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.