Maryland's 7th congressional district

Maryland's 7th congressional district
Maryland's 7th congressional district
	Maryland's 7th congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
Representative
	Kweisi Mfume; D–Baltimore
Area	294.25 sq mi (762.1 km2)
Distribution	95% urban; 4.6% rural;
Population (2019)	717,158
Median household; income	$63,082
Ethnicity	53.8% Black; 33.3% White; 6.9% Asian; 3.3% Hispanic; 2.1% Two or more races; 0.6% other;
Occupation	66.8% White-collar; 17% Gray-collar; 16.2% Blue-collar;
Cook PVI	D+27

Maryland's 7th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives encompasses just over half of the city of Baltimore, some sections of Baltimore County, and the majority of Howard County. The district was created following the census of 1790, which gave Maryland one additional representative in the House. It has been drawn as a majority-African American district since 1973. Kweisi Mfume is the current representative, winning a special election on April 28, 2020 to finish the term of Elijah Cummings, who died in October 2019.^[3]

List of members representing the district[]

	Member	Party	Years	Con- gress	Electoral history	District location
The district was created in 1793
1	William Hindman	Pro-Administration	March 4, 1793 – March 3, 1795	3rd 4th 5th	Redistricted from the 2nd district and re-elected in 1792. Re-elected in 1794. Re-elected in 1796. Lost re-election.	1793–1803 [data unknown/missing]
1	William Hindman	Federalist	March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1799	3rd 4th 5th
2	Joseph H. Nicholson	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1799 – March 1, 1806	6th 7th 8th 9th	Elected November 29, 1798 to begin member-elect Joshua Seney's term. Re-elected in 1801. Re-elected in 1803. Re-elected in 1804. Resigned.
2	1803–1813 [data unknown/missing]			6th 7th 8th 9th
Vacant			March 1, 1806 – December 3, 1806	9th
3		Edward Lloyd	Democratic-Republican	December 3, 1806 – March 3, 1809	9th 10th	Elected September 27 and October 4, 1806 to finish Nicholson's term. Re-elected October 6, 1806. Re-elected in 1808. Retired.
4		John Brown	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1809 – ??, 1810	11th	Elected in 1808. Re-elected in 1810. Resigned to become Clerk of Court of Queen Anne's County.
Vacant			??, 1810 – November 29, 1810		11th
5		Robert Wright	Democratic-Republican	November 29, 1810 – March 3, 1817	11th 12th 13th 14th	Elected to finish Brown's term and to the next term on the same ballot. Re-elected in 1812. Re-elected in 1814. Retired.
5		1813–1823 [data unknown/missing]			11th 12th 13th 14th
6			Thomas Culbreth	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1821	15th 16th	Elected in 1816. Re-elected in 1818. Lost re-election.
7	Robert Wright		Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823	17th	Elected in 1820. Retired.
8	William Hayward Jr.	Democratic-Republican (Crawford)	March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825	18th	Elected in 1822. Retired.	1823–1833 [data unknown/missing]
9	John Leeds Kerr	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1829	19th 20th	Elected in 1824. Re-elected in 1826. Lost re-election.
10	Richard Spencer	Jacksonian	March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831	21st	Elected in 1829. Lost re-election.
11	John Leeds Kerr	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1833	22nd	Elected in 1831. [data unknown/missing]
12	Francis Thomas	Jacksonian	March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835	23rd	Redistricted from the 4th district and re-elected in 1833. Redistricted to the 6th district.	1833–1843 [data unknown/missing]
13	Daniel Jenifer	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837	24th	Elected in 1835. Re-elected in 1837. Re-elected in 1839. [data unknown/missing]
13	Daniel Jenifer	Whig	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1841	25th 26th
14	Augustus R. Sollers	Whig	March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843	27th	Elected in 1841. [data unknown/missing]
Seat abolished after the 1840 United States Census.
Seat was reinstated after the 1950 United States Census.
15	Samuel Friedel	Democratic	January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1971	83rd 84th 85th 86th 87th 88th 89th 90th 91st	Elected in 1952. Re-elected in 1954. Re-elected in 1956. Re-elected in 1958. Re-elected in 1960. Re-elected in 1962. Re-elected in 1964. Re-elected in 1966. Re-elected in 1968. [data unknown/missing]	1953–1963 [data unknown/missing]
15	1963–1973 [data unknown/missing]			83rd 84th 85th 86th 87th 88th 89th 90th 91st
16	1963–1973 [data unknown/missing]	Parren Mitchell	Democratic	January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1987	92nd 93rd 94th 95th 96th 97th 98th 99th 100th	Elected in 1970. Re-elected in 1972. Re-elected in 1974. Re-elected in 1976. Re-elected in 1978. Re-elected in 1980. Re-elected in 1982. Re-elected in 1984. Retired to run (unsuccessfully) for Lieutenant Governor of Maryland.
	1973–1983 [data unknown/missing]
	1983–1993 [data unknown/missing]
17	1983–1993 [data unknown/missing]	Kweisi Mfume	Democratic	January 3, 1987 – February 15, 1996	101st 102nd 103rd 104th	Elected in 1986. Re-elected in 1988. Re-elected in 1990. Re-elected in 1992. Re-elected in 1994. Resigned to become CEO of the NAACP.
17	1993–2003 [data unknown/missing]	Kweisi Mfume	Democratic	January 3, 1987 – February 15, 1996	101st 102nd 103rd 104th
Vacant			February 15, 1996 – April 16, 1996	104th
18		Elijah Cummings	Democratic	April 16, 1996 – October 17, 2019	104th 105th 106th 107th 108th 109th 110th 111th 112th 113th 114th 115th 116th	Elected to finish Mfume's term. Re-elected in 1996. Re-elected in 1998. Re-elected in 2000. Re-elected in 2002. Re-elected in 2004. Re-elected in 2006. Re-elected in 2008. Re-elected in 2010. Re-elected in 2012. Re-elected in 2014. Re-elected in 2016. Re-elected in 2018. Died.
							2003–2013
	2013–present
Vacant			October 17, 2019 – May 5, 2020	116th 117th
19		Kweisi Mfume	Democratic	May 5, 2020 – present	116th 117th	Elected to finish Cummings's term and seated May 5, 2020. Re-elected in 2020.

Recent elections[]

2000s[]

Maryland's 7th congressional district election, 2000^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Elijah Cummings (Incumbent)	134,066	87.1
	Republican	Kenneth Kondner	19,773	12.8
	Write-ins		135	0.10
Total votes			153,974	100.00
	Democratic hold

Maryland's 7th congressional district election, 2002^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Elijah Cummings (Incumbent)	137,047	73.6
	Republican	Joesph Ward	49,172	26.4
Total votes			186,219	100.00
	Democratic hold

Maryland's 7th congressional district election, 2004^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Elijah Cummings (Incumbent)	179,189	73.4
	Republican	Tony Salazar	60,102	26.4
	Green	Virginia Rodino	4,727	1.9
Total votes			244,018	100.00
	Democratic hold

Maryland's 7th congressional district election, 2006^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Elijah Cummings (Incumbent)	158,830	98.1
	Write-ins		3,147	1.9
Total votes			161,977	100.00
	Democratic hold

Maryland's 7th congressional district election, 2008^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Elijah Cummings (Incumbent)	227,379	79.5
	Republican	Michael Hargadon	53,147	18.6
	Libertarian	Ronald Owens-Bey	4,727	1.8
	Write-ins		280	0.1
Total votes			286,020	100.00
	Democratic hold

2010s[]

Maryland's 7th congressional district election, 2010^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Elijah Cummings (Incumbent)	152,669	75.2
	Republican	Frank Mirabile	46,375	22.8
	Libertarian	Scott Spencer	3,814	1.9
	Write-ins		210	0.1
Total votes			203,068	100.00
	Democratic hold

Maryland's 7th congressional district, 2012^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Elijah Cummings (incumbent)	247,770	76.5
	Republican	Frank C. Mirabile	67,405	20.8
	Libertarian	Ronald M. Owens-Bey	8,211	2.5
	n/a	Write-ins	432	0.1
Total votes			323,818	100.0
	Democratic hold

Maryland's 7th congressional district, 2014^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Elijah Cummings (incumbent)	144,639	69.7
	Republican	Corrogan R. Vaughn	55,860	27.2
	Libertarian	Scott Soffen	6,103	3.0
	n/a	Write-ins	207	0.1
Total votes			206,809	100.0
	Democratic hold

Maryland's 7th congressional district, 2016^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Elijah Cummings (incumbent)	238,838	74.9
	Republican	Corrogan R. Vaughn	69,556	21.8
	Green	Myles B. Hoenig	9,715	3.0
	n/a	Write-ins	601	0.2
	Republican	Wayne T. Newton (write-in)	202	0.1
Total votes			318,912	100.0
	Democratic hold

Maryland's 7th congressional district, 2018^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Elijah Cummings (incumbent)	202,345	76.4
	Republican	Richmond Davis	56,266	21.3
	Libertarian	David Griggs	5,827	2.2
	n/a	Write-ins	272	0.1
Total votes			264,710	100.0
	Democratic hold

2020s[]

Maryland's 7th congressional district special election, 2020^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Kweisi Mfume	111,955	73.8%
	Republican	Kimberly Klacik	38,102	25.1%
	Independent	Peter James (write-in)	1	0.0%
	Independent	Other Write-Ins	1,660	1.1%
Total votes			151,718	100.0
	Democratic hold

Maryland's 7th congressional district, 2020^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Kweisi Mfume (incumbent)	237,084	71.6
	Republican	Kimberly Klacik	92,825	28.0
	Write-in		1,089	0.3
Total votes			330,998	100.0
	Democratic hold

References[]

^ Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census Bureau. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov.
^ "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
^ Reed, Kai (April 29, 2020). "Election results: Kweisi Mfume declared winner of Maryland's 7th District Congress seat". WBAL. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f https://ballotpedia.org/Maryland%27s_7th_Congressional_District
^ "Official 2012 Presidential General Election results for Representative in Congress". Maryland State Board of Elections. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
^ Haas, Karen L. (March 9, 2015). "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 2014". Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
^ "Official 2016 Presidential General Election results for Representative in Congress". Maryland Secretary of State. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
^ Johnson, Cheryl L. (February 28, 2019). "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 6, 2018". Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
^ "Official 2020 Special General Election results for Representative in Congress". elections.maryland.gov. State Board of Elections. May 12, 2020. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
^ "Official 2020 Presidential General Election results for Representative in Congress". Maryland State Board of Elections. Retrieved December 14, 2020.

Bibliography[]

Archives of Maryland Historical List United States Representatives Maryland State Archives
Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
House of Representatives Election Statistics, 1920 to Present

Coordinates: 39°18′N 76°54′W / 39.3°N 76.9°W / 39.3; -76.9

[1] Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census Bureau. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov.

[Cook-2] "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.

[3] Reed, Kai (April 29, 2020). "Election results: Kweisi Mfume declared winner of Maryland's 7th District Congress seat". WBAL. Retrieved April 29, 2020.

[ballot-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f https://ballotpedia.org/Maryland%27s_7th_Congressional_District

[MD_SBOE-5] "Official 2012 Presidential General Election results for Representative in Congress". Maryland State Board of Elections. Retrieved November 12, 2012.

[clerk2014-6] Haas, Karen L. (March 9, 2015). "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 2014". Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. Retrieved October 28, 2019.

[Generalresults-7] "Official 2016 Presidential General Election results for Representative in Congress". Maryland Secretary of State. Retrieved December 9, 2016.

[clerk2018-8] Johnson, Cheryl L. (February 28, 2019). "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 6, 2018". Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. Retrieved April 27, 2019.

[9] "Official 2020 Special General Election results for Representative in Congress". elections.maryland.gov. State Board of Elections. May 12, 2020. Retrieved May 14, 2020.

[MDgenr-10] "Official 2020 Presidential General Election results for Representative in Congress". Maryland State Board of Elections. Retrieved December 14, 2020.

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