- Lead
- 9,083
- Total
- 50,634
- vs nation
- R+16.5
Maryland 6th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,432
- Total
- 50,155
- vs nation
- R+19.3
- Lead
- 8,516
- Total
- 54,998
- vs nation
- R+17.6
- Lead
- 9,600
- Total
- 55,282
- vs nation
- R+21.2
- Lead
- 10,777
- Total
- 55,615
- vs nation
- R+26.7
- Lead
- 15,665
- Total
- 53,447
- vs nation
- R+26.9
- Lead
- 11,020
- Total
- 44,686
- vs nation
- R+25.2
- Lead
- 10,057
- Total
- 39,581
- vs nation
- R+33.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+17.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 130,7032024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,964 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 44.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $69,0492024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 61.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 19.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+13.3 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+66.5 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 3, OH · twin score 76.1
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland 6th 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
50.3%
24,430 votes · D+0.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 48.7%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
82.9%
36,318 votes · R+66.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 81.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
24,430votes
50.3% of the vote · D+0.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 22,451 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
36,318votes
82.9% of the vote · R+66.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 35,543 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
−6.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+13.3 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · −8.2 pts
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
+47.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+62.7 · U.S. R+15.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · +44.0 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 64.1%30,752 | 35.9%17,258 | 48,010 |
Anchored in the rural and exurban reaches of western Maryland, this district delivered an 17.9-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, making it a consistent outlier in an otherwise heavily Democratic state.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 13.3 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 66.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.9 points.
A population of 130,703, a 62% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $69,049 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 3 and State Senate District 20.
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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Maryland 6th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/24006/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.