Maryland's 1st congressional district

Maryland's 1st congressional district
Maryland's 1st congressional district
	Maryland's 1st congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
Representative	Andrew P. Harris; R–Cockeysville
Area	3,653.1 sq mi (9,461 km2)
Distribution	64.1% urban; 35.9% rural;
Population (2000)	662,062
Median household; income	51,918
Ethnicity	85.5% White; 11.2% Black; 1.6% Hispanic; 1.4% Asian; 0.5% other; 0.2% Native American;
Occupation	63.3% White-collar; 21.9% Blue-collar; 14.8% Gray-collar;
Cook PVI	R+14

Maryland's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Maryland. The district encompasses the entire Eastern Shore of Maryland, including Salisbury, as well as parts of Baltimore, Harford and Carroll counties.

The district is currently represented by Republican Andy Harris, who defeated Democratic incumbent Frank M. Kratovil, Jr. in 2010. The district was the subject of a 2014 boycott following legislation Harris introduced.^[2]

Recent elections

Voting

Election results from presidential races
Year	Office	Results
2016	President	Trump 61.9% - 33.5%
2012	President	Romney 60.3% - 37.8%
2008	President	McCain 59.6% - 38.4%

List of representatives

The following is a list of those who have represented the district. Also present below are significant events in the history of the district.^[3]

	Representative	Party	Tenure	Notes/Events	Area
1	Michael J. Stone	Anti-Administration	March 4, 1789– March 4, 1791		Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's counties in Southern Maryland.
2	Philip Key	Pro-Administration	March 4, 1791– March 4, 1793
3	George Dent	Pro-Administration	March 4, 1793– March 4, 1795
3	George Dent	Federalist	March 4, 1795– March 4, 1801
4	John Campbell	Federalist	March 4, 1801– March 4, 1811
5	Philip Stuart	Federalist	March 4, 1811– March 4, 1819
6	Raphael Neale	Federalist	March 4, 1819– March 4, 1823
6	Raphael Neale	Adams-Clay Federalist	March 4, 1823– March 4, 1825
7	Clement Dorsey	Adams	March 4, 1825– March 4, 1829
7	Clement Dorsey	Anti-Jackson	March 4, 1829– March 4, 1831
8	Daniel Jenifer	Anti-Jackson	March 4, 1831– March 4, 1833
9	Littleton Dennis	Anti-Jackson	March 4, 1833– April 14, 1834	Died	Dorchester, Somerset, and Worcester counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland
Vacant			April 14, 1834– May 29, 1834
10	John N. Steele	Anti-Jackson	May 29, 1834– March 4, 1837
11	John Dennis	Whig	March 4, 1837– March 4, 1841
12	Isaac D. Jones	Whig	March 4, 1841– March 4, 1843
13	John Causin	Whig	March 4, 1843– March 4, 1845		Anne Arundel (except for Howard District), Calvert, Charles, Montgomery, Prince George's, and St. Mary's counties in Central Maryland and Southern Maryland.
14	John G. Chapman	Whig	March 4, 1845– March 4, 1849
15	Richard Bowie	Whig	March 4, 1849– March 4, 1853
16	John R. Franklin	Whig	March 4, 1853– March 4, 1855		Caroline, Dorchester, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, and Worcester counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
17	James A. Stewart	Democratic	March 4, 1855– March 4, 1861
18	John W. Crisfield	Unionist Party	March 4, 1861– March 4, 1863
19	John A. J. Creswell	Republican	March 4, 1863– March 4, 1865		Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, and Worcester counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
20	Hiram McCullough	Democratic	March 4, 1865– March 4, 1869
21	Samuel Hambleton	Democratic	March 4, 1869– March 4, 1873
22	Ephraim King Wilson II	Democratic	March 4, 1873– March 4, 1875		Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
23	Philip Thomas	Democratic	March 4, 1875– March 4, 1877
24	Daniel M. Henry	Democratic	March 4, 1877– March 4, 1881
25	George W. Covington	Democratic	March 4, 1881– March 4, 1885
26	Charles H. Gibson	Democratic	March 4, 1885– March 4, 1891
27	Henry Page	Democratic	March 4, 1891– September 3, 1892	Resigned to become a judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals.
Vacant			September 3, 1892– November 8, 1892
28	John B. Brown	Democratic	November 8, 1892– March 4, 1893
29	Robert Bratton	Democratic	March 4, 1893– May 10, 1894	Died
Vacant			May 10, 1894– November 6, 1894
30	Winder Laird Henry	Democratic	November 6, 1894– March 4, 1895
31	Joshua W. Miles	Democratic	March 4, 1895– March 4, 1897
32	Isaac A. Barber	Republican	March 4, 1897– March 4, 1899
33	John Walter Smith	Democratic	March 4, 1899– January 12, 1900	Resigned to become Governor of Maryland.
Vacant			January 12, 1900– November 6, 1900
34	Josiah L. Kerr	Republican	November 6, 1900– March 4, 1901
35	William Humphreys Jackson	Republican	March 4, 1901– March 4, 1903
35	William Humphreys Jackson	Republican	March 4, 1903– March 4, 1905		Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
36	Thomas A. Smith	Democratic	March 4, 1905– March 4, 1907
37	William Humphreys Jackson	Republican	March 4, 1907– March 4, 1909
38	J. Harry Covington	Democratic	March 4, 1909– September 30, 1914	Resigned to practice law in Washington, D.C.
Vacant			September 30, 1914– November 3, 1914
39	Jesse Price	Democratic	November 3, 1914– March 4, 1919
40	William N. Andrews	Republican	March 4, 1919– March 4, 1921
41	Thomas Alan Goldsborough	Democratic	March 4, 1921– April 5, 1939	Resigned having been appointed an associate justice of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.
Vacant			April 5, 1939– June 8, 1939
42	David Jenkins Ward	Democratic	June 8, 1939– January 3, 1945
43	Dudley Roe	Democratic	January 3, 1945– January 3, 1947
44	Edward T. Miller	Republican	January 3, 1947– January 3, 1959
45	Thomas F. Johnson	Democratic	January 3, 1959– January 3, 1963
46	Rogers Morton	Republican	January 3, 1963– January 29, 1971	Resigned having been appointed United States Secretary of the Interior	Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and parts of Baltimore County in Central Maryland.
47	William O. Mills	Republican	May 25, 1971– May 24, 1973	Died by suicide	Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's counties in Southern Maryland and parts of Baltimore County, Harford County and Baltimore City in Central Maryland.
Vacant			May 24, 1973 – August 21, 1973
48	Robert Bauman	Republican	August 21, 1973– January 3, 1981
49	Roy Dyson	Democratic	January 3, 1981– January 3, 1991
50	Wayne Gilchrest	Republican	January 3, 1991– January 6, 2009		Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and parts of Anne Arundel County in Southern Maryland and Baltimore County in Central Maryland.
51	Frank Kratovil	Democratic	January 3, 2009– January 3, 2011
52	Andrew P. Harris	Republican	January 3, 2011– present	Incumbent

Recent election results

Marylands's 1st congressional district election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Wayne Gilchrest (inc.)	165,293	64.40
	Democratic	Bennett Bozman	91,022	35.46
	Green	David M. Gross	73	0.03
	N/A	Write-ins	294	0.11
Total votes			256,682	100.00
	Republican hold

Marylands's 1st congressional district election, 2002
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Wayne Gilchrest (inc.)	192,004	76.83
	Democratic	Amy D. Tamlyn	57,986	23.20
Total votes			249,900	100.00
	Republican hold

Marylands's 1st congressional district election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Wayne Gilchrest (inc.)	245,149	75.89%	−0.94
	Democratic	Kostas Alexakis	77,872	24.11%	+0.91
Total votes			323,021	100.00
	Republican hold

Marylands's 1st congressional district election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Wayne Gilchrest (inc.)	185,177	68.80%	−7.09
	Democratic	Jim Corwin	83,738	31.11%	+7.00
	Write-ins		232	0.09%	+0.09
Total votes			269,147	100.00
	Republican hold

Maryland's 1st Congressional District: 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Frank Kratovil	177,065	49.12%	+18.01
	Republican	Andy Harris	174,213	48.33%	−20.47
	Libertarian	Richard J. Davis	8,873	2.46%	+2.46
	No party	Write-ins	329	0.09
Total votes			360,480	100.00
	Democratic gain from Republican

Maryland's 1st Congressional District: 2010
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Andrew P. Harris	155,118	54.08%	+5.75
	Democratic	Frank Kratovil (inc.)	120,400	41.98%	−7.14
	Libertarian	Richard J. Davis	10,876	3.79%	+1.33
	No party	Write-ins	418	0.15
Total votes			286,812	100.00
	Republican gain from Democratic

Maryland's 1st Congressional District: 2012^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Andrew P. Harris (inc.)	214,204	63.4
	Democratic	Wendy Rosen	92,812	27.5
	Democratic	John LaFerla (write-in)	14,858	4.4
	Libertarian	Muir Wayne Boda	12,857	3.8
	N/A	Others (write-in)	3,029	0.9
Total votes			337,760	100
	Republican hold

Maryland's 1st Congressional District: 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Andrew P. Harris (inc.)	176,324	70.4
	Democratic	Bill Tilghman	73,843	29.5
	N/A	Others (write-in)	233	0.1
Total votes			250,418	100
	Republican hold

Maryland's 1st Congressional District: 2016
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Andrew P. Harris (inc.)	242,574	67.0
	Democratic	Joe Werner	103,622	28.6
	Libertarian	Matt Beers	15,370	4.2
	N/A	Others (write-in)	531	0.1
Total votes			362,097	100
	Republican hold

Historical district boundaries

References

^ "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
^ Trip Gabriel (July 13, 2014). "Marijuana Is at Center of Feud in Capital". The NY Times. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
^ *List of Federal Representatives of the State of Maryland, Maryland Archives.
^ "Unofficial 2012 Presidential General Election results for Representative in Congress". Maryland State Board of Elections. Retrieved Nov 12, 2012.

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[Cook-1] "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.

[2] Trip Gabriel (July 13, 2014). "Marijuana Is at Center of Feud in Capital". The NY Times. Retrieved July 13, 2014.

[3] *List of Federal Representatives of the State of Maryland, Maryland Archives.

[MD_SBOE-4] "Unofficial 2012 Presidential General Election results for Representative in Congress". Maryland State Board of Elections. Retrieved Nov 12, 2012.

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