- Lead
- 4,779
- Total
- 13,567
- vs nation
- D+36.7
Delaware 6th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,256
- Total
- 14,105
- vs nation
- D+32.8
- Lead
- 3,587
- Total
- 13,128
- vs nation
- D+25.2
- Lead
- 3,985
- Total
- 12,583
- vs nation
- D+27.8
- Lead
- 4,962
- Total
- 12,799
- vs nation
- D+31.5
- Lead
- 2,322
- Total
- 12,173
- vs nation
- D+21.5
- Lead
- 2,228
- Total
- 10,781
- vs nation
- D+20.1
- Lead
- 1,692
- Total
- 9,202
- vs nation
- D+9.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+35.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,0542024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,479 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 9.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $105,2502024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 73.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+38.8 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+37.9 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Representative District 10, DE · twin score 96.6
presidential history
Party record book
Delaware 6th 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
68.7%
8,791 votes · D+38.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 67.8%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
68.8%
2,448 votes · R+37.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 62.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
9,569votes
67.8% of the vote · D+37.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 9,063 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
5,290votes
58.3% of the vote · R+16.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 5,193 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
Kamala Harris2024
+36.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+35.2 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +32.8 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+29.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+11.9 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +20.5 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin exceeding 35 points, this Wilmington-area district ranks among the most reliably blue constituencies in the state, reflecting a dense urban electorate that has shown little competitive volatility in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 38.8 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 37.9 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 35.2 points.
A population of 23,054, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $105,250 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Representative District 10 and State Representative District 12.
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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