- Lead
- 7,793
- Total
- 27,901
- vs nation
- R+26.5
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 7B
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,017
- Total
- 27,672
- vs nation
- R+29.8
- Lead
- 8,888
- Total
- 23,715
- vs nation
- R+39.6
- Lead
- 7,491
- Total
- 22,504
- vs nation
- R+37.1
- Lead
- 7,435
- Total
- 22,032
- vs nation
- R+41.0
- Lead
- 8,665
- Total
- 20,470
- vs nation
- R+39.9
- Lead
- 5,504
- Total
- 16,352
- vs nation
- R+34.2
- Lead
- 3,676
- Total
- 13,872
- vs nation
- R+35.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+27.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 45,4092024 5-year
- Population density
- 452 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 100 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $125,1922024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 80.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+7.0 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+58.9 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Legislative Subdistrict 35A, MD · twin score 97.5
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 7B · 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. Roosevelt1932
51.7%
888 votes · D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 49.6%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
78.8%
5,069 votes · R+58.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 75.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
9,935votes
35.9% of the vote · R+25.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 9,637 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
17,430votes
62.5% of the vote · R+27.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 16,952 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
+11.5pts D vs U.S.
Place R+13.7 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +10.9 pts
Republican
John McCain2008
+41.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+33.7 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +40.3 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.
In 2024 it voted Republican by R+28.2, against R+33.7 in 2008. Median household income was $112,265 in the 2024 ACS 5-year, among the higher figures for a state house district.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 7.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 58.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 27.9 points.
A population of 45,409, a 81% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $125,192 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Legislative Subdistrict 35A and State Legislative Subdistrict 42C.
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 7B. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2407B/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.