- Lead
- 10,185
- Total
- 18,059
- vs nation
- D+57.9
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 43B
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,083
- Total
- 19,017
- vs nation
- D+48.6
- Lead
- 7,781
- Total
- 17,779
- vs nation
- D+41.7
- Lead
- 7,761
- Total
- 17,600
- vs nation
- D+40.2
- Lead
- 7,258
- Total
- 17,312
- vs nation
- D+34.7
- Lead
- 5,250
- Total
- 15,533
- vs nation
- D+36.3
- Lead
- 5,040
- Total
- 13,626
- vs nation
- D+36.5
- Lead
- 4,010
- Total
- 12,255
- vs nation
- D+24.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+56.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,1822024 5-year
- Population density
- 6,804 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 6.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $88,6422024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 61.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 21.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+58.1 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+14.3 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 86, IN · twin score 90.6
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 43B · 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. Roosevelt1936
78.7%
13,447 votes · D+58.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 76.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
55.9%
5,296 votes · R+14.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 53.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
14,274votes
75.1% of the vote · D+53.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 13,818 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
5,296votes
55.9% of the vote · R+14.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 5,184 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
Kamala Harris2024
+57.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+56.4 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +50.7 pts
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
−8.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+6.9 · U.S. R+15.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · −8.8 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.
Maryland State Legislative Subdistrict 43B sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 58.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 14.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.4 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 56.4 points.
A population of 42,182, a 62% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $88,642 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 86 and State Legislative Subdistrict 42B.
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 43B. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/2443B/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.