- Lead
- 31,424
- Total
- 50,974
- vs nation
- D+63.1
Maryland 46th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 31,347
- Total
- 50,381
- vs nation
- D+57.8
- Lead
- 26,477
- Total
- 48,341
- vs nation
- D+52.7
- Lead
- 28,529
- Total
- 51,773
- vs nation
- D+51.2
- Lead
- 27,078
- Total
- 50,424
- vs nation
- D+46.4
- Lead
- 17,311
- Total
- 46,053
- vs nation
- D+40.0
- Lead
- 17,800
- Total
- 40,856
- vs nation
- D+43.0
- Lead
- 14,793
- Total
- 39,754
- vs nation
- D+28.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+61.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 127,4662024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,984 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 21.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $78,7802024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 46.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 26.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 18.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+62.2 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+51.2 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 82, MI · twin score 95.8
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland 46th 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
79.0%
39,821 votes · D+62.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 78.9%
Republican
William McKinley1896
73.8%
23,771 votes · R+51.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 73.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
42,930votes
59.5% of the vote · D+19.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 40,196 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
68,566votes
73.2% of the vote · R+46.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 63,930 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
+63.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+61.6 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +57.8 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+45.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+51.2 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +33.7 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+61.6, this district ranks among the most lopsided in the state, reflecting a dense, heavily urbanized constituency where competitive general elections are exceedingly rare.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 62.2 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 51.2 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 61.6 points.
A population of 127,466, a 46% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $78,780 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 82 and State House District 1.
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 46th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/24046/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.