- Lead
- 30,398
- Total
- 43,409
- vs nation
- D+71.5
Maryland 22nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 37,883
- Total
- 48,410
- vs nation
- D+73.8
- Lead
- 41,364
- Total
- 51,582
- vs nation
- D+78.1
- Lead
- 41,536
- Total
- 51,766
- vs nation
- D+76.4
- Lead
- 38,970
- Total
- 49,926
- vs nation
- D+70.8
- Lead
- 27,230
- Total
- 42,505
- vs nation
- D+66.5
- Lead
- 22,007
- Total
- 36,361
- vs nation
- D+60.0
- Lead
- 16,456
- Total
- 32,233
- vs nation
- D+42.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+70.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 136,2972024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,589 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 29.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $95,0522024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 13.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 44.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 32.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+80.2 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+21.3 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 47, MD · twin score 98.1
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland 22nd 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
Barack Obama2012
89.5%
46,334 votes · D+80.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 88.8%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
60.1%
1,391 votes · R+21.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 58.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
46,334votes
89.5% of the vote · D+80.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 45,815 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
15,705votes
58.9% of the vote · R+19.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 12,899 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
Hillary Clinton2016
+78.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+80.2 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +76.4 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+8.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+14.1 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +6.8 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 92.4%40,743 | 7.6%3,360 | 44,103 |
With a 2024 presidential margin exceeding 70 points, this district ranks among the most reliably Democratic in the state, reflecting the dense, majority-minority urban communities it encompasses in the Baltimore area.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 80.2 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 21.3 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 70.0 points.
A population of 136,297, a 14% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $95,052 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 47 and State Senate District 26.
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 22nd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/24022/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.