- Lead
- 27,680
- Total
- 61,583
- vs nation
- D+46.4
Maryland 44th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 31,216
- Total
- 62,535
- vs nation
- D+45.5
- Lead
- 23,739
- Total
- 54,227
- vs nation
- D+41.7
- Lead
- 23,623
- Total
- 54,044
- vs nation
- D+39.9
- Lead
- 22,152
- Total
- 52,956
- vs nation
- D+34.6
- Lead
- 16,027
- Total
- 47,759
- vs nation
- D+36.0
- Lead
- 15,238
- Total
- 41,822
- vs nation
- D+35.9
- Lead
- 12,127
- Total
- 36,848
- vs nation
- D+24.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+44.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 132,5322024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,493 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 29.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $84,0512024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 35.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 42.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+57.6 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+14.7 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 10, MD · twin score 97.8
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland 44th 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. Roosevelt1936
78.5%
41,353 votes · D+57.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 75.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
56.3%
16,493 votes · R+14.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 54.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
46,151votes
73.8% of the vote · D+49.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 43,305 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
16,493votes
56.3% of the vote · R+14.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 16,087 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+50.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+30.8 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +46.4 pts
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
−7.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+7.9 · U.S. R+15.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · −8.4 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 2024 presidential margin of D+44.9, this district ranks among the most heavily Democratic in the state, reflecting the dense urban core and majority-minority communities it encompasses in the Baltimore area.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 57.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 14.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 44.9 points.
A population of 132,532, a 36% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $84,051 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 10 and State Senate District 41.
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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