- Lead
- 14,022
- Total
- 76,720
- vs nation
- D+19.7
Maryland 33rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 14,439
- Total
- 77,543
- vs nation
- D+14.2
- Lead
- 3,543
- Total
- 66,263
- vs nation
- D+3.3
- Lead
- 1,962
- Total
- 64,939
- vs nation
- R+0.8
- Lead
- 852
- Total
- 64,624
- vs nation
- R+6.0
- Lead
- 5,489
- Total
- 59,465
- vs nation
- R+6.8
- Lead
- 2,013
- Total
- 50,036
- vs nation
- R+4.5
- Lead
- 1,588
- Total
- 43,183
- vs nation
- R+12.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+18.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 131,7852024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,264 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 104 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $142,8302024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 70.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+27.2 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+43.1 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 30, MD · twin score 92.9
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland 33rd 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. Roosevelt1932
62.0%
2,539 votes · D+27.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 60.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
70.6%
17,182 votes · R+43.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 64.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
44,763votes
57.7% of the vote · D+18.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 43,941 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
31,970votes
53.8% of the vote · R+9.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · 31,136 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
+29.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+4.4 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +26.2 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
+19.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+43.1 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · +16.9 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.
With a D+18.3 presidential margin in 2024, this district ranks among the most Democratic in the state, reflecting a dense, urban electorate where competitive general elections are effectively decided in the primary.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 27.2 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 43.1 points in 1972. The 2024 margin was 18.3 points.
A population of 131,785, a 70% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $142,830 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 30 and State Senate District 16.
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 33rd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/24033/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.