- Lead
- 9,703
- Total
- 52,840
- vs nation
- R+16.9
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 37B
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,263
- Total
- 51,769
- vs nation
- R+20.4
- Lead
- 12,037
- Total
- 46,683
- vs nation
- R+27.9
- Lead
- 10,059
- Total
- 46,342
- vs nation
- R+25.6
- Lead
- 9,770
- Total
- 46,147
- vs nation
- R+28.4
- Lead
- 13,077
- Total
- 42,043
- vs nation
- R+28.6
- Lead
- 8,421
- Total
- 33,992
- vs nation
- R+25.3
- Lead
- 5,269
- Total
- 29,291
- vs nation
- R+26.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+18.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 90,7382024 5-year
- Population density
- 85 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,071 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $83,8132024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 76.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 11.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+11.3 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+56.8 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 17, NC · twin score 88.6
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 37B · 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
55.4%
9,408 votes · D+11.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 50.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
77.9%
17,779 votes · R+56.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 73.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
21,103votes
40.8% of the vote · R+16.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 20,940 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
30,643votes
58.0% of the vote · R+18.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 29,366 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
+18.6pts D vs U.S.
Place R+6.6 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +15.5 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
+33.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+56.8 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · +32.8 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.
In 2024 it voted Republican by R+18.5, against R+21.2 in 2008. About 130,000 residents lived here, with White alone at 66.8% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 11.3 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 56.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.4 points.
A population of 90,738, a 77% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $83,813 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 17 and State House District 13.
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 37B. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2437B/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.