- Lead
- 5,779
- Total
- 9,990
- vs nation
- D+59.3
Delaware 5th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,739
- Total
- 10,734
- vs nation
- D+58.3
- Lead
- 6,066
- Total
- 10,108
- vs nation
- D+57.9
- Lead
- 6,365
- Total
- 9,987
- vs nation
- D+59.9
- Lead
- 7,074
- Total
- 10,386
- vs nation
- D+60.8
- Lead
- 5,095
- Total
- 9,164
- vs nation
- D+58.1
- Lead
- 4,488
- Total
- 8,045
- vs nation
- D+55.3
- Lead
- 3,481
- Total
- 6,585
- vs nation
- D+44.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+57.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,3942024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,332 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 5.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $69,6762024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 27.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 49.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 12.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+68.1 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Representative District 2, DE · twin score 98.7
presidential history
Party record book
Delaware 5th 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
83.7%
8,689 votes · D+68.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 81.4%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
48.2%
1,030 votes · D+3.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 44.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
8,689votes
83.7% of the vote · D+68.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 8,683 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
2,218votes
37.3% of the vote · D+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 2,189 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
Barack Obama2008
+60.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+68.1 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +59.9 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
−12.2pts R vs U.S.
Place D+30.0 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · −20.7 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.
Delaware's 5th House district, with roughly 23,000 residents, sits among the more reliably Republican-leaning corners of a state that trends Democratic statewide, making it a notable counterweight in legislative math.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 68.1 points in 2008. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 57.8 points.
A population of 23,394, a 28% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $69,676 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 1.
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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