- Lead
- 32,047
- Total
- 59,671
- vs nation
- D+55.2
Maryland 17th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 35,812
- Total
- 59,764
- vs nation
- D+55.5
- Lead
- 29,127
- Total
- 51,543
- vs nation
- D+54.4
- Lead
- 21,969
- Total
- 50,102
- vs nation
- D+40.0
- Lead
- 21,490
- Total
- 48,398
- vs nation
- D+37.1
- Lead
- 15,112
- Total
- 45,628
- vs nation
- D+35.6
- Lead
- 11,859
- Total
- 40,932
- vs nation
- D+28.5
- Lead
- 8,911
- Total
- 36,886
- vs nation
- D+15.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+53.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 134,6262024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,450 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 24.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $117,5072024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 38.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 22.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+59.9 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+25.9 in 1952MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 19, MD · twin score 97.8
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland 17th 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
Joe Biden2020
78.6%
47,004 votes · D+59.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 76.3%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
62.6%
5,313 votes · R+25.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1948 · 60.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
47,004votes
78.6% of the vote · D+59.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 44,662 votes
Republican
George H. W. Bush1988
16,962votes
48.1% of the vote · D+3.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 16,185 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
Joe Biden2020
+55.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+59.9 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +55.2 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
+28.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+24.0 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +21.8 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 17th State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 59.9 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 25.9 points in 1952. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 53.7 points.
A population of 134,626, a 39% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $117,507 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 19 and State Senate District 39.
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 17th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/24017/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.