- Lead
- 11,123
- Total
- 61,969
- vs nation
- R+16.5
Maryland 2nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 9,134
- Total
- 57,496
- vs nation
- R+20.3
- Lead
- 14,008
- Total
- 54,208
- vs nation
- R+27.9
- Lead
- 7,360
- Total
- 52,788
- vs nation
- R+17.8
- Lead
- 4,859
- Total
- 51,680
- vs nation
- R+16.7
- Lead
- 12,319
- Total
- 48,213
- vs nation
- R+23.1
- Lead
- 6,995
- Total
- 39,547
- vs nation
- R+18.2
- Lead
- 3,373
- Total
- 34,964
- vs nation
- R+18.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+17.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 132,6382024 5-year
- Population density
- 392 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 339 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $79,9132024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 72.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+29.9 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+36.5 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 31, MO · twin score 89.8
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland 2nd 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
63.5%
16,502 votes · D+26.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 59.2%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
67.2%
18,258 votes · R+36.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 65.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
24,535votes
39.6% of the vote · R+17.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 23,496 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
35,658votes
57.5% of the vote · R+17.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 32,802 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
+19.2pts D vs U.S.
Place R+5.9 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +18.6 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+27.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+25.8 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +23.1 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.
Anchored in the rural and small-town communities of western Maryland, this district delivered an 17.9-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, making it a reliable outlier in an otherwise heavily Democratic state.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 29.9 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 36.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.9 points.
A population of 132,638, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $79,913 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 31 and State Senate District 15.
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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