- Lead
- 16,661
- Total
- 78,501
- vs nation
- R+19.8
Maryland 5th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 16,333
- Total
- 77,491
- vs nation
- R+25.5
- Lead
- 22,779
- Total
- 70,848
- vs nation
- R+34.2
- Lead
- 20,618
- Total
- 68,833
- vs nation
- R+33.8
- Lead
- 18,789
- Total
- 66,641
- vs nation
- R+35.5
- Lead
- 23,726
- Total
- 62,202
- vs nation
- R+35.7
- Lead
- 15,677
- Total
- 50,212
- vs nation
- R+31.7
- Lead
- 9,438
- Total
- 41,665
- vs nation
- R+31.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+21.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 133,7812024 5-year
- Population density
- 411 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 326 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $117,7072024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 83.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+17.4 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+55.0 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 7, MD · twin score 90.0
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland 5th 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
Samuel J. Tilden1876
54.1%
2,700 votes · D+8.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 54.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
76.2%
13,003 votes · R+55.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 74.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
29,591votes
37.7% of the vote · R+21.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 29,173 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
46,252votes
58.9% of the vote · R+21.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 45,506 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+24.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+4.7 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +20.5 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1944
+38.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+30.8 · U.S. D+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +35.7 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 5th State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 17.4 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 55.0 points in 1972. The 2024 margin was 21.2 points.
A population of 133,781, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $117,707 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 7 and State Senate District 42.
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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