- Lead
- 3,644
- Total
- 16,351
- vs nation
- D+23.8
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 37A
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,780
- Total
- 16,327
- vs nation
- D+24.8
- Lead
- 5,219
- Total
- 15,657
- vs nation
- D+31.2
- Lead
- 6,586
- Total
- 16,568
- vs nation
- D+35.9
- Lead
- 6,259
- Total
- 16,232
- vs nation
- D+31.3
- Lead
- 3,841
- Total
- 13,569
- vs nation
- D+30.8
- Lead
- 4,703
- Total
- 12,273
- vs nation
- D+37.8
- Lead
- 4,400
- Total
- 10,716
- vs nation
- D+32.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+22.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 43,9762024 5-year
- Population density
- 296 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 149 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $52,2242024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 34.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 50.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+60.3 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+2.2 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 31, MS · twin score 95.5
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 37A · 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
80.0%
5,274 votes · D+60.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 80.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
50.6%
3,437 votes · R+2.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 44.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
11,433votes
69.0% of the vote · D+39.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 11,143 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
6,056votes
37.0% of the vote · D+22.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 5,619 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
James M. Cox1920
+73.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+47.4 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +71.1 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1968
−19.8pts R vs U.S.
Place D+19.1 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · −20.9 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 | 45.4%5,620 | 54.6%6,760 | 12,380 |
| 2018 | R | 45.7%6,769 | 54.3%8,033 | 14,802 |
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 37A sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 60.3 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 2.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 22.3 points.
A population of 43,976, a 35% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $52,224 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 31 and State House District 47.
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 37A. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2437A/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.