- Lead
- 3,390
- Total
- 14,167
- vs nation
- D+25.4
Delaware 8th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,542
- Total
- 13,600
- vs nation
- D+21.6
- Lead
- 1,784
- Total
- 11,188
- vs nation
- D+13.9
- Lead
- 2,150
- Total
- 10,706
- vs nation
- D+16.2
- Lead
- 2,956
- Total
- 10,769
- vs nation
- D+20.2
- Lead
- 762
- Total
- 10,456
- vs nation
- D+9.7
- Lead
- 794
- Total
- 9,142
- vs nation
- D+8.2
- Lead
- 597
- Total
- 7,694
- vs nation
- R+0.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+23.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 25,2832024 5-year
- Population density
- 900 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 28.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $113,4172024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 54.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 27.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+27.4 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+48.1 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Representative District 15, DE · twin score 93.6
presidential history
Party record book
Delaware 8th 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
63.2%
6,803 votes · D+27.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 62.3%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
73.8%
2,453 votes · R+48.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 68.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
8,673votes
61.2% of the vote · D+23.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 8,467 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
5,302votes
64.6% of the vote · R+29.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 5,283 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
+25.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+23.9 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +21.6 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+41.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+24.0 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +30.6 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 of D+23.8 in a district of roughly 25,000 residents, Delaware's 8th state house district anchors the Democratic end of the state's legislative map.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 27.4 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 48.1 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.9 points.
A population of 25,283, a 55% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $113,417 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Representative District 15 and State Representative District 7.
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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