- Lead
- 18,910
- Total
- 55,452
- vs nation
- R+32.6
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 35A
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 18,097
- Total
- 55,129
- vs nation
- R+37.3
- Lead
- 21,877
- Total
- 51,453
- vs nation
- R+44.6
- Lead
- 18,598
- Total
- 48,601
- vs nation
- R+42.1
- Lead
- 18,287
- Total
- 47,709
- vs nation
- R+45.6
- Lead
- 20,704
- Total
- 44,345
- vs nation
- R+44.2
- Lead
- 13,389
- Total
- 35,141
- vs nation
- R+38.6
- Lead
- 9,118
- Total
- 29,716
- vs nation
- R+39.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+34.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 89,1842024 5-year
- Population density
- 385 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 232 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $123,5832024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 86.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+2.3 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+62.8 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Legislative Subdistrict 7B, MD · twin score 97.5
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 35A · 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
47.8%
1,848 votes · R+3.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 46.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
80.7%
11,535 votes · R+62.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 77.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
17,754votes
32.2% of the vote · R+32.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 17,459 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
36,369votes
65.6% of the vote · R+34.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 35,851 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
+5.1pts D vs U.S.
Place R+20.1 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +4.6 pts
Republican
John McCain2008
+45.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+38.3 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +44.6 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 35A delivers some of the widest Republican presidential margins in a state that trends heavily Democratic statewide, reflecting the rural and exurban character of its western Maryland constituency.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 2.3 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 62.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 34.1 points.
A population of 89,184, a 86% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $123,583 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Legislative Subdistrict 7B 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 35A. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2435A/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.