- Lead
- 7,181
- Total
- 27,080
- vs nation
- D+28.0
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 27B
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,712
- Total
- 25,334
- vs nation
- D+26.0
- Lead
- 3,441
- Total
- 23,152
- vs nation
- D+12.8
- Lead
- 4,787
- Total
- 22,861
- vs nation
- D+17.1
- Lead
- 4,561
- Total
- 22,175
- vs nation
- D+13.3
- Lead
- 1,070
- Total
- 19,851
- vs nation
- D+7.8
- Lead
- 1,577
- Total
- 15,941
- vs nation
- D+9.4
- Lead
- 1,133
- Total
- 13,328
- vs nation
- Even
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+26.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 45,2592024 5-year
- Population density
- 344 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 131 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $138,6222024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 50.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 35.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+30.4 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+41.3 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Legislative District 23, MD · twin score 85.6
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 27B · 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
64.2%
16,258 votes · D+30.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 61.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
70.1%
5,847 votes · R+41.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 67.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
16,765votes
61.9% of the vote · D+26.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 16,258 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
9,584votes
35.4% of the vote · D+26.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 9,399 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
+28.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+26.5 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +26.0 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+39.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+20.0 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +32.5 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.
The district recorded a Democratic presidential margin of D+26.5 in 2024, compared with D+20.5 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with Black residents at 54.8%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 30.4 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 41.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 26.5 points.
A population of 45,259, a 51% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $138,622 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Legislative District 23 and State Legislative Subdistrict 27A.
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 27B. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2427B/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.