- Lead
- 29,857
- Total
- 67,005
- vs nation
- R+43.1
Maryland 1st State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 28,259
- Total
- 63,987
- vs nation
- R+48.6
- Lead
- 30,283
- Total
- 61,456
- vs nation
- R+51.4
- Lead
- 22,501
- Total
- 59,052
- vs nation
- R+42.0
- Lead
- 18,487
- Total
- 58,250
- vs nation
- R+39.0
- Lead
- 21,730
- Total
- 57,637
- vs nation
- R+35.2
- Lead
- 13,576
- Total
- 49,309
- vs nation
- R+28.1
- Lead
- 6,858
- Total
- 46,419
- vs nation
- R+23.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+44.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 134,6532024 5-year
- Population density
- 106 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,268 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $64,9812024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 87.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+18.9 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+49.3 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 30, PA · twin score 96.5
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland 1st State Senate District · 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
58.1%
27,671 votes · D+16.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 57.6%
Republican
Donald Trump2016
72.7%
44,667 votes · R+49.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 71.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
27,671votes
58.1% of the vote · D+16.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 25,609 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
47,641votes
71.1% of the vote · R+44.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 45,474 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
−0.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+18.9 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · −2.5 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+51.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+49.3 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +48.6 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.
Anchoring the rural upper Shore and Cecil County panhandle, this district delivered a 44.6-point Republican presidential margin in 2024 — the widest in the state — reflecting its sparse population density and agricultural economic base.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 18.9 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 49.3 points in 2016. The 2024 margin was 44.6 points.
A population of 134,653, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,981 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 30 and State Senate District 12.
The state-senate 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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