Cedarcroft is one of the many communities in the 43rd district Maryland House of Delegates District 43 is one of 47 legislative districts in the state of

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and one of the 5 located entirely within

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. The neighborhoods of Abell,

Cedarcroft Cedarcroft, also known as Bayard Taylor House, is a historic house on Gatehouse Drive in Chester County, Pennsylvania near Kennett Square. It was built in 1859 for writer Bayard Taylor (1825–1878), and is a good local example of Italianate a ...

Charles Village Charles Village is a neighborhood located in the north-central area of Baltimore, Maryland, USA. It is a diverse, eclectic, international, largely middle-class area with many single-family homes that is in proximity to many of Baltimore's cultural ...

, Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello, Ednor Gardens-Lakeside, Guilford,

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, Hillen, Lake Evesham,

Lauraville Lauraville is a neighborhood in northeast Baltimore, Maryland. The neighborhood is bounded on the east by Maryland Route 147, Harford Road, on the north by Echodale Avenue, on the south by Argonne Drive and Herring Run Park, and on the west side b ...

, Mid-Govans, Northwood, Pen Lucy, Radnor-Winston, Ramblewood, Stonewood-Pentwood-Winston, Tuscany-Canterbury, Waverly, Wilson Park and Woodbourne Heights, Baltimore make up the majority of the district. The district is divided into two sub-districts for the

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: District 43A and District 43B.

Demographic characteristics

As of the

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, the district had a population of 109,154, of whom 90,503 (82.9%) were of voting age. The racial makeup of the district was 29,325 (26.9%)

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, 64,733 (59.3%)

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, 242 (0.2%) Native American, 6,646 (6.1%)

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, 26 (0.0%)

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, 2,220 (2.0%) from some other race, and 5,947 (5.4%) from two or more races.

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of any race were 4,873 (4.5%) of the population. The district had 77,644 registered voters as of October 17, 2020, of whom 9,308 (12.0%) were registered as unaffiliated, 4,222 (5.4%) were registered as Republicans, 63,099 (81.3%) were registered as Democrats, and 541 (0.7%) were registered to other parties.

Educational institutions

Universities

Several of Maryland's larger institutions of higher education are located within the 43rd district. With the district being redrawn in 2012 per the 2010 census, most of the

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Homewood campus is in the 43rd. The district also includes

Morgan State University Morgan State University (Morgan State or MSU) is a public historically black research university in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the largest of Maryland's historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In 1867, the university, then known ...

Loyola University Maryland Loyola University Maryland is a private Jesuit university in Baltimore, Maryland. Established as Loyola College in Maryland by John Early and eight other members of the Society of Jesus in 1852, it is the ninth-oldest Jesuit college in the ...

and the

Notre Dame of Maryland University Notre Dame of Maryland University is a private Catholic university in Baltimore, Maryland. NDMU offers certificate, undergraduate, and graduate programs for women and men. History The Roman Catholic academic/educational religious congregation ...

High schools

The 43rd district is also home to

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, the oldest high school in Maryland. Other high schools in the district include:

W. E. B. Du Bois High School W. E. B. Du Bois High School of Environmental Science (officially referred to as W. E. B. Du Bois High School) was a Public school (government funded), public High school#United States, high school located in northeast Baltimore, Maryland. The scho ...

Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School (commonly referred to as "Mervo" or "MerVo-Tech") is a public high school in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is one of the two premiere vocational-technical high schools of the city, the other b ...

Reginald F. Lewis High School Reginald F. Lewis High School of Business and Law (officially referred to as the Reginald F. Lewis High School) is a Public school (government funded), public High school#United States, high school located in northeast Baltimore, Maryland. It is n ...

and the Baltimore Career Academy.

Elected representatives

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

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by Mary L. Washington (D) and in the House of Delegates by Elizabeth Embry (D, District 43A), Regina T. Boyce (D, District 43A), and

Cathi Forbes Cathi Forbes (born June 15, 1965) is an American politician of the Democratic Party who represents District 43B in the Maryland House of Delegates. Governor Larry Hogan first appointed her to succeed former state delegate Stephen Lafferty in 20 ...

(D, District 43B).

Election results

References

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