Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026D+24.5
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+23.3
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 1.3 points.
Domestic migration in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+97
2012
+1,614
2013
−2,585
2014
−5,723
2015
−9,000
2016
−12,135
2017
−9,945
2018
−9,175
2019
−10,899
2021
−7,111
2022
−17,391
2023
−15,077
2024
−8,308
2025
−5,138
Baltimore city's majority-Black electorate and its surrounding Anne Arundel and Howard County suburbs produce some of Maryland's sharpest intra-metro contrasts, with presidential margins swinging 40+ points between jurisdictions.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 82.5 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 24.0 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.3 points.
A population of 2,849,436, a 52% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $103,525 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV and Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC.
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How did Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland vote in 2024?
In 2024, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland voted Democratic by 23.3 points (D+23.3), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 1,422,620 votes cast, 852,369 went Democratic and 521,384 went Republican.
When did Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland?
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland has a population of 2,849,436 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland?
Median household income in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland is $103,525 — above the national median of $80,734. The Maryland state median is $103,678.
What is the political history of Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 22 went Democratic and 9 went Republican.
