- Lead
- 5,041
- Total
- 7,725
- vs nation
- D+66.7
Delaware 3rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,146
- Total
- 8,748
- vs nation
- D+65.8
- Lead
- 6,025
- Total
- 8,767
- vs nation
- D+66.6
- Lead
- 6,269
- Total
- 8,706
- vs nation
- D+68.2
- Lead
- 6,861
- Total
- 9,110
- vs nation
- D+68.0
- Lead
- 5,189
- Total
- 7,896
- vs nation
- D+68.2
- Lead
- 4,542
- Total
- 7,047
- vs nation
- D+63.9
- Lead
- 3,529
- Total
- 5,802
- vs nation
- D+52.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+65.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,3662024 5-year
- Population density
- 14,604 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $54,4142024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 24.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 48.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 23.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+75.3 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Representative District 2, DE · twin score 98.3
presidential history
Party record book
Delaware 3rd 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
87.4%
7,958 votes · D+75.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 85.7%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
41.9%
720 votes · D+16.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 33.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
7,958votes
87.4% of the vote · D+75.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 7,459 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
1,439votes
29.7% of the vote · D+40.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 1,421 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
+69.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+49.6 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · +68.2 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
−22.5pts R vs U.S.
Place D+40.3 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −32.3 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%6,070 | 27.2%2,273 | 8,343 |
Anchored in Wilmington, this compact urban district recorded a 65.3-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, reflecting a dense, majority-minority population that has voted reliably left-of-center across successive election cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 75.3 points in 2008. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 65.3 points.
A population of 23,366, a 24% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,414 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Representative District 2 and State Representative District 16.
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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