The Democratic Party won four of eight seats (determined by the 1990 US census done by the Census Bureau) in the 1996 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland and the Republican Party won the other four seats.
Maryland has eight seats in the House, apportioned according to the 1990 United States Census. The United States census of 1990, conducted by the Census Bureau, was the first census to be directed by a woman, Barbara Everitt Bryant. Democratic 4 Republican 4 8 
