- Lead
- 4,231
- Total
- 48,045
- vs nation
- R+7.3
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 7A
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,399
- Total
- 46,018
- vs nation
- R+14.0
- Lead
- 8,328
- Total
- 42,256
- vs nation
- R+21.8
- Lead
- 9,083
- Total
- 42,381
- vs nation
- R+25.3
- Lead
- 10,131
- Total
- 42,507
- vs nation
- R+31.1
- Lead
- 13,684
- Total
- 40,985
- vs nation
- R+30.9
- Lead
- 9,888
- Total
- 34,596
- vs nation
- R+29.1
- Lead
- 8,897
- Total
- 30,871
- vs nation
- R+37.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+8.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 84,0062024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,018 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 82.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $108,6702024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 71.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+9.3 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+68.6 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Legislative District 31, MD · twin score 89.7
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 7A · 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
47.7%
17,534 votes · R+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 45.8%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
83.7%
28,652 votes · R+68.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 82.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
21,150votes
44.0% of the vote · R+8.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 20,146 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
28,652votes
83.7% of the vote · R+68.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 28,031 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
−7.3pts D vs U.S.
Place R+8.8 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · −10.1 pts
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
+50.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+65.5 · U.S. R+15.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Gerald Ford, 1976 · +47.6 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.
The 2024 presidential margin was R+8.8, one of the narrower results among Maryland's state house districts, compared with R+23.8 in 2008. About 121,000 residents lived here, with White alone at 52.6% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 9.3 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 68.6 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.8 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.8 points.
A population of 84,006, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $108,670 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Legislative District 31 and State Legislative Subdistrict 42A.
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 7A. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2407A/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.