- Lead
- 177,995
- Total
- 304,267
- vs nation
- D+60.0
Maryland 7th Congressional District
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President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 197,436
- Total
- 312,461
- vs nation
- D+58.7
- Lead
- 186,577
- Total
- 306,557
- vs nation
- D+58.8
- Lead
- 200,889
- Total
- 323,059
- vs nation
- D+58.3
- Lead
- 191,678
- Total
- 314,592
- vs nation
- D+53.7
- Lead
- 138,885
- Total
- 277,561
- vs nation
- D+52.5
- Lead
- 133,689
- Total
- 246,928
- vs nation
- D+53.6
- Lead
- 117,419
- Total
- 230,217
- vs nation
- D+42.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+58.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 767,2702024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,893 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 130 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $63,9522024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 29.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 52.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+63.2 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+17.1 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Congressional District 4, MD · twin score 96.7
presidential history
Party record book
Maryland 7th Congressional 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
80.6%
251,706 votes · D+63.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 80.2%
Republican
William McKinley1896
56.9%
70,843 votes · R+17.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 55.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
259,087votes
80.2% of the vote · D+62.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 253,563 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
182,108votes
55.9% of the vote · R+11.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 167,069 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
+60.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+58.5 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +58.8 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+11.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+17.1 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · −3.6 pts
Current officeholders
Federal officeholders only. State and local officeholders are planned for the next data pass.
On the ballot
Democrat Kweisi Mfume holds the seat and is contesting it.
Primary held June 23, 2026. Akashic does not yet carry the nominees for this contest.
How the seat has run
| Year | U.S. House | President | Ran ahead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D+63.1Kweisi Mfume | D+58.5 | +4.6 |
| 2022 | D+64.3Kweisi Mfume | — | — |
| 2020 | D+43.6Kweisi Mfume | D+63.2 | — |
| 2018 | D+55.2Elijah Cummings | — | — |
“Ran ahead” is how far the winning party’s House candidate ran ahead of that party’s presidential margin in the same district. A dash means the House race and the presidential figure were measured on different district lines, so the two cannot be subtracted — both are still shown unchanged.
U.S. House
Each result reflects the U.S. House district as it was drawn for that election; redistricting has redrawn these lines over time, so they can differ from the current 120th-Congress district shown on the map above.
Maryland's 7th anchors in Baltimore City and inner suburbs, producing some of the largest Democratic presidential margins in the country — the 2024 gap exceeded 54 points — driven by a majority-Black electorate and dense urban core.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 63.2 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 17.1 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 58.5 points.
A population of 767,270, a 30% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $63,952 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Congressional District 4 and Congressional District 3.
The congressional 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.
Compare two places, side by side
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Maryland 7th Congressional District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cd/2407/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.