Congressional district · Boundaries of the 119th Congress
Maryland's 8th district
Maryland's 8th district has 772,224 residents on 273 mi² of land. It is represented by Jamie Raskin (D-MD-8). Federal contract obligations attributed to it reached $9.7B in FY2026.
- Residents
- 772,224
- Land area
- 273 mi²
- Counties
- 2
- Representative
- Jamie Raskin
Members for this district
Members who held this seat while these boundaries were in force, newest first.
Senators
The state's senators today, or on the last day of these boundaries for an older plan.
Chris Van HollenD-MD
Counties
Share of the district's residents living in each county, and share of the county's residents living in the district (2020 census tracts weighted by their overlap).
- Montgomery County100.0% of the district · 72% of the county
- Prince George's County<0.1% of the district · <0.1% of the county
Federal contracts
Contract obligations attributed to the district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines.
- Obligations · FY2026
- $9.7B
- Per resident
- $12,557
- Rank in Maryland
- 1 of 8
- Contract actions
- 23.4K
- New awards: 9,209
By fiscal year
- 8BFY2017
- 7.9BFY2018
- 8.3BFY2019
- 10.1BFY2020
- 12.1BFY2021
- 14.4BFY2022
- 10.9BFY2023
- 15.8BFY2024
- 10.3BFY2025
- 9.7BFY2026
Top buyers
- National Institutes of Health$2.2B23%Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Energy$1.9B19%
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Commerce
- Food and Drug Administration$399.8M4.1%Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of the Army$389.1M4.0%Department of Defense
- Departmental Offices$347.6M3.6%Department of the Interior
- Department of the Navy$340M3.5%Department of Defense
Top recipients
- AMERICAN CENTRIFUGE OPERATING, LLC$900M9.3%1 award
- ORANO FEDERAL SERVICES LLC$900M9.3%1 award
- FCN, INC.$316.6M3.3%514 awards
- 47 awards
- M. A. MORTENSON COMPANY$237.8M2.5%1 award
- MISTRAL INC$213.1M2.2%6 awards
- WESTAT, INC.$200.6M2.1%134 awards
- INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION$184.7M1.9%78 awards
- GUIDEHOUSE INC.$146.6M1.5%10 awards
- INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION$132.5M1.4%23 awards
Other boundaries
District lines change between plans; each plan keeps its own page.
Sources and method
Every figure on this page traces to these records.
- Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
- ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
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