- Lead
- 5,649
- Total
- 7,850
- vs nation
- D+73.4
Delaware 2nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,620
- Total
- 8,592
- vs nation
- D+72.6
- Lead
- 6,280
- Total
- 8,260
- vs nation
- D+73.9
- Lead
- 6,505
- Total
- 8,217
- vs nation
- D+75.3
- Lead
- 7,064
- Total
- 8,669
- vs nation
- D+74.2
- Lead
- 5,496
- Total
- 7,386
- vs nation
- D+76.9
- Lead
- 4,773
- Total
- 6,583
- vs nation
- D+72.0
- Lead
- 3,709
- Total
- 5,409
- vs nation
- D+60.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+72.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,8212024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,905 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 6.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $53,7072024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 20.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 59.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+81.5 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Representative District 5, DE · twin score 98.7
presidential history
Party record book
Delaware 2nd State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
90.4%
7,839 votes · D+81.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1888 · 89.4%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
34.7%
527 votes · D+30.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 26.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
7,839votes
90.4% of the vote · D+81.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 7,565 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
1,049votes
13.4% of the vote · D+72.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 1,009 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Alton B. Parker1904
+82.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+63.2 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · +76.9 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
−35.2pts R vs U.S.
Place D+53.0 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −40.7 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 72.8%6,188 | 27.2%2,317 | 8,505 |
This Wilmington-area district recorded a 72.0-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, making it among the most one-sided state house districts in Delaware and reflecting the dense urban core it encompasses.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 81.5 points in 2008. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 72.0 points.
A population of 23,821, a 21% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $53,707 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Representative District 5 and State Representative District 3.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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