- Lead
- 6,059
- Total
- 69,191
- vs nation
- R+7.3
Maryland 37th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,483
- Total
- 68,096
- vs nation
- R+9.6
- Lead
- 6,818
- Total
- 62,340
- vs nation
- R+13.0
- Lead
- 3,473
- Total
- 62,910
- vs nation
- R+9.4
- Lead
- 3,511
- Total
- 62,379
- vs nation
- R+12.9
- Lead
- 9,236
- Total
- 55,612
- vs nation
- R+14.2
- Lead
- 3,718
- Total
- 46,265
- vs nation
- R+8.6
- Lead
- 869
- Total
- 40,007
- vs nation
- R+10.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+8.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 134,7142024 5-year
- Population density
- 110 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,220 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $72,7382024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 63.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 24.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+25.0 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+44.3 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 38, MD · twin score 82.3
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland 37th 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
62.3%
14,682 votes · D+25.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 58.6%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
71.6%
21,216 votes · R+44.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 66.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
31,502votes
46.3% of the vote · R+5.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 30,640 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
36,699votes
53.0% of the vote · R+8.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 34,985 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
+32.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+7.0 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +30.5 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
+21.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+44.3 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · +17.8 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.
Anchored in the rural and small-town communities of western Maryland, District 37 delivered a 8.8-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, making it a consistent outlier in a state dominated by Democratic statewide wins.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 25.0 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 44.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.8 points.
A population of 134,714, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,738 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 38 and State Senate District 25.
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 37th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/24037/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.