By Adam Pagnucco.
Part One looked at the performances of Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks and Congressman David Trone by county. Part Two looked at their performances by broad MoCo region (Democratic Crescent, Upcounty and rest of county). Now let’s look at congressional, state and council districts.
The chart below shows Alsobrooks’s vote percentage by district. Note that this only includes those parts of the districts that lie within MoCo. (That’s particularly important for Trone’s Congressional District 6.)
State Legislative District 20 and Council District 4 both include Downtown Silver Spring and Takoma Park, the heartland of MoCo progressive politics. State Legislative District 18 shares Kensington with Council District 4 and contains liberal Chevy Chase. These are critical high turnout areas and they belonged to Alsobrooks.
Now let’s look at Trone’s percentage by district.
Trone’s best areas were in his Congressional District 6 and other state and council districts that overlapped with it. That’s no surprise, but here’s the problem – as we saw in my turnout series, those areas had lower turnout rates than Alsobrooks’s best areas. This is the problem that has bedeviled countywide politicians from UpCounty for many years.
The chart below shows Alsobrooks’s percentage margin over Trone by district.
Again, Alsobrooks crushed Trone in the vote-rich progressive districts of the Democratic Crescent. She added solid performances in heavily Black areas like Council District 5 (East County) and Congressional District 4 (which contains Burtonsville). That formula produced a narrow win over Trone in his home county.
We will look at local areas next.