Maryland's Legislative District 36 is one of 47 districts in the state for the

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. It covers Kent County,

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, and parts of Caroline County and

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Demographic characteristics

As of the

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, the district had a population of 129,429, of whom 101,733 (78.6%) were of voting age. The racial makeup of the district was 103,031 (79.6%)

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, 11,859 (9.2%)

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, 414 (0.3%) Native American, 1,613 (1.2%)

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, 40 (0.0%)

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, 4,190 (3.2%) from some other race, and 8,282 (6.4%) from two or more races.

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of any race were 8,428 (6.5%) of the population. The district had 90,062 registered voters as of October 17, 2020, of whom 17,728 (19.7%) were registered as unaffiliated, 41,025 (45.6%) were registered as

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, 29,927 (33.2%) were registered as Democrats, and 766 (0.9%) were registered to other parties.

Political representation

The district is represented for the 2023–2027 legislative term in the

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Stephen S. Hershey Jr. Stephen S. Hershey Jr. (born May 2, 1964) is an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician currently serving in his 2nd term in the Maryland State Senate, representing Legislative District 36, Eastern Shore of Maryland, Mary ...

(R) and in the House of Delegates by Steven J. Arentz (R), Jefferson L. Ghrist (R) and Jay A. Jacobs (R).

History

1994 redistricting

On January 14, 1994, Maryland was ordered to submit a plan for a new

majority district on the

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following ''Marylanders for Fair Representation, Inc. v. Schaefer''. The U.S. District Court approved a plan to alter the boundaries of former legislative districts 36, 37, and 38, beginning with the 1994 general election. Following this plan, Kent County,

and parts of Caroline County,

and Talbot County were provisioned for district 36.

References

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