Editing Washington County, Maryland (section)

===Federal representation===
The county is located within [[Maryland's 6th congressional district]]. The representative of the district currently is [[April McClain Delaney]] (D).

Like most of [[Appalachia]], [[German Americans|German]]-influenced and [[Union (American Civil War)|Unionist]] [[Western Maryland]],<ref>Levine, Mark V.; ‘Standing Political Decisions and Critical Realignment: The Pattern of Maryland Politics, 1872-1948’; ''[[The Journal of Politics]]'', volume 38, no. 2 (May 1976), pp. 292-325</ref> Washington County is solidly Republican. The last Democrat to carry Washington County at a Presidential level was [[Lyndon Johnson]] during his 1964 landslide win over [[Barry Goldwater]], although between 1888 and 1940 the county was a consistent [[bellwether]] for all Presidential elections.