- Lead
- 40,751
- Total
- 54,456
- vs nation
- D+76.3
Maryland 43rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 42,858
- Total
- 56,393
- vs nation
- D+71.5
- Lead
- 37,382
- Total
- 52,433
- vs nation
- D+69.2
- Lead
- 40,121
- Total
- 54,765
- vs nation
- D+69.4
- Lead
- 38,474
- Total
- 53,161
- vs nation
- D+65.1
- Lead
- 29,701
- Total
- 45,783
- vs nation
- D+67.3
- Lead
- 27,717
- Total
- 41,125
- vs nation
- D+66.9
- Lead
- 24,556
- Total
- 38,336
- vs nation
- D+55.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+74.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 126,4092024 5-year
- Population density
- 8,599 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 14.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $72,5342024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 36.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 46.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+76.0 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 44, GA · twin score 97.6
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland 43rd 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
87.1%
49,091 votes · D+76.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 85.6%
Republican
William McKinley1896
40.2%
6,703 votes · D+14.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 39.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
49,091votes
87.1% of the vote · D+76.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 46,803 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
16,288votes
39.9% of the vote · D+20.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 14,749 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
Kamala Harris2024
+76.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+74.8 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +72.0 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
−20.2pts R vs U.S.
Place D+14.1 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −24.5 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 43 delivered a 22.9-point margin for the Republican presidential nominee in 2024, making it a consistent outlier in an otherwise heavily Democratic state.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 76.0 points in 2020. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 74.8 points.
A population of 126,409, a 37% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,534 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 44 and State Senate District 33.
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 43rd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/24043/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.