- Lead
- 30,566
- Total
- 36,397
- vs nation
- D+85.5
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 43A
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 32,775
- Total
- 37,376
- vs nation
- D+83.2
- Lead
- 29,601
- Total
- 34,654
- vs nation
- D+83.3
- Lead
- 32,360
- Total
- 37,165
- vs nation
- D+83.2
- Lead
- 31,216
- Total
- 35,849
- vs nation
- D+79.8
- Lead
- 24,451
- Total
- 30,250
- vs nation
- D+83.3
- Lead
- 22,677
- Total
- 27,499
- vs nation
- D+81.9
- Lead
- 20,546
- Total
- 26,081
- vs nation
- D+70.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+84.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 84,2272024 5-year
- Population density
- 10,027 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 8.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $67,0252024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 24.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 59.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+87.7 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Legislative District 40, MD · twin score 99.2
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 43A · 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
Joe Biden2020
93.2%
34,817 votes · D+87.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 92.9%
Republican
William McKinley1896
39.6%
4,586 votes · D+15.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 39.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
37,394votes
86.9% of the vote · D+73.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 34,817 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
13,168votes
37.6% of the vote · D+24.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 12,266 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
Walter Mondale1984
+85.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+67.7 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +85.5 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
−21.3pts R vs U.S.
Place D+15.2 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −25.1 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 43A recorded an 84.0-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the most lopsided legislative districts in the nation. Districts at this extreme typically anchor dense urban cores with high concentrations of college-educated or majority-minority voters.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 87.7 points in 2020. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 84.0 points.
A population of 84,227, a 24% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $67,025 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Legislative District 40 and State Legislative District 41.
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 43A. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2443A/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.