- Lead
- 14,471
- Total
- 24,167
- vs nation
- D+61.4
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 27A
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 15,103
- Total
- 24,591
- vs nation
- D+57.0
- Lead
- 10,887
- Total
- 20,821
- vs nation
- D+50.2
- Lead
- 10,862
- Total
- 20,423
- vs nation
- D+49.3
- Lead
- 9,448
- Total
- 19,199
- vs nation
- D+41.9
- Lead
- 4,715
- Total
- 15,783
- vs nation
- D+32.3
- Lead
- 3,622
- Total
- 12,587
- vs nation
- D+28.3
- Lead
- 2,438
- Total
- 10,356
- vs nation
- D+15.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+59.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 45,3672024 5-year
- Population density
- 569 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 79.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $123,5672024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 21.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 61.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+61.4 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+20.5 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Legislative District 23, MD · twin score 97.9
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 27A · 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
79.9%
19,657 votes · D+61.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 78.7%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
59.6%
3,382 votes · R+20.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · 55.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
19,657votes
79.9% of the vote · D+61.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 19,027 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
5,478votes
34.7% of the vote · D+29.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · 4,791 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
+61.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+59.9 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +57.0 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+27.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+8.3 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +8.8 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.
Its Democratic presidential margin was D+59.9 in 2024 and D+49.2 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with Black residents at 56%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 61.4 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 20.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 59.9 points.
A population of 45,367, a 22% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $123,567 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Legislative District 23 and State House District 67.
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 27A. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2427A/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.