- Lead
- 9,082
- Total
- 25,505
- vs nation
- R+34.1
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 29A
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,560
- Total
- 23,360
- vs nation
- R+36.8
- Lead
- 8,017
- Total
- 21,081
- vs nation
- R+40.1
- Lead
- 6,362
- Total
- 20,436
- vs nation
- R+35.0
- Lead
- 5,566
- Total
- 18,967
- vs nation
- R+36.6
- Lead
- 6,884
- Total
- 16,610
- vs nation
- R+39.0
- Lead
- 4,170
- Total
- 12,666
- vs nation
- R+33.4
- Lead
- 2,349
- Total
- 10,022
- vs nation
- R+32.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+35.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 45,3952024 5-year
- Population density
- 239 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 190 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $121,8592024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 81.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+20.1 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+50.9 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 78, KY · twin score 85.6
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 29A · 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
59.4%
1,000 votes · D+20.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 58.7%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
75.1%
3,786 votes · R+50.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 71.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
7,889votes
30.9% of the vote · R+35.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 7,600 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
16,971votes
66.5% of the vote · R+35.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 15,160 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
Al Smith1928
+30.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+13.1 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +15.6 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+55.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+36.0 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +41.2 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.
Subdistrict 29A delivers some of the widest Republican presidential margins in a state that trends heavily Democratic statewide, reflecting a rural and exurban electorate whose preferences stand sharply apart from the Baltimore-D.C. corridor.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 20.1 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 50.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 35.6 points.
A population of 45,395, a 81% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $121,859 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 78 and State House District 14.
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 29A. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2429A/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.