- Lead
- 12,024
- Total
- 75,946
- vs nation
- R+14.4
Maryland 7th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 11,416
- Total
- 73,690
- vs nation
- R+19.9
- Lead
- 17,216
- Total
- 65,971
- vs nation
- R+28.2
- Lead
- 16,574
- Total
- 64,885
- vs nation
- R+29.4
- Lead
- 17,566
- Total
- 64,539
- vs nation
- R+34.5
- Lead
- 22,349
- Total
- 61,455
- vs nation
- R+33.9
- Lead
- 15,392
- Total
- 50,948
- vs nation
- R+30.7
- Lead
- 12,573
- Total
- 44,743
- vs nation
- R+36.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+15.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 129,4152024 5-year
- Population density
- 707 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 183 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $114,9762024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 74.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+9.1 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+67.1 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 42, MD · twin score 96.3
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland 7th 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
47.6%
18,434 votes · R+4.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 46.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
82.9%
33,721 votes · R+67.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 81.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
30,787votes
40.5% of the vote · R+15.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 30,081 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
42,811votes
56.4% of the vote · R+15.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 41,497 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
−8.9pts D vs U.S.
Place R+34.1 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · −10.4 pts
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
+47.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+62.5 · U.S. R+15.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +43.9 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 upper Chesapeake region, District 7 delivered a roughly 15.8-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, making it a consistent outlier in a state where Democrats hold a structural advantage statewide.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 9.1 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 67.1 points in 1972. The 2024 margin was 15.8 points.
A population of 129,415, a 75% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $114,976 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 42 and State Senate District 31.
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 7th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/24007/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.