- Lead
- 2,170
- Total
- 19,083
- vs nation
- D+12.8
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 29B
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,370
- Total
- 19,048
- vs nation
- D+8.0
- Lead
- 513
- Total
- 16,556
- vs nation
- D+1.0
- Lead
- 1,993
- Total
- 16,470
- vs nation
- D+8.2
- Lead
- 2,226
- Total
- 15,348
- vs nation
- D+7.2
- Lead
- 87
- Total
- 12,568
- vs nation
- D+3.1
- Lead
- 1,036
- Total
- 10,098
- vs nation
- D+9.7
- Lead
- 1,455
- Total
- 8,371
- vs nation
- D+8.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+11.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 44,5672024 5-year
- Population density
- 550 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 81 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $101,7192024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 54.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 24.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+58.0 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+9.8 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Legislative Subdistrict 33A, MD · twin score 83.6
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 29B · 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
78.2%
2,643 votes · D+56.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 77.7%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
54.2%
1,998 votes · R+9.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 49.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
10,389votes
54.5% of the vote · D+12.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 10,267 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
8,097votes
42.4% of the vote · D+11.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 8,019 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
+69.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+52.2 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +59.4 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+9.7pts R vs U.S.
Place D+9.8 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · −1.0 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | R | 42.2%8,929 | 57.8%12,215 | 21,144 |
| 2018 | R | 48.4%7,301 | 51.6%7,784 | 15,085 |
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 29B sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 58.0 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 9.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.4 points.
A population of 44,567, a 54% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $101,719 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Legislative Subdistrict 33A and State Legislative District 32.
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 29B. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2429B/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.