- Lead
- 5,526
- Total
- 10,126
- vs nation
- D+56.0
Delaware 16th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,579
- Total
- 10,855
- vs nation
- D+56.2
- Lead
- 6,035
- Total
- 10,207
- vs nation
- D+57.0
- Lead
- 6,325
- Total
- 10,062
- vs nation
- D+59.0
- Lead
- 7,031
- Total
- 10,480
- vs nation
- D+59.8
- Lead
- 5,070
- Total
- 9,224
- vs nation
- D+57.4
- Lead
- 4,450
- Total
- 8,109
- vs nation
- D+54.4
- Lead
- 3,468
- Total
- 6,645
- vs nation
- D+43.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+54.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 24,1692024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,965 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 12.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $70,8042024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 32.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 43.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 18.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+67.1 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Representative District 3, DE · twin score 98.1
presidential history
Party record book
Delaware 16th 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
83.2%
8,717 votes · D+67.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 81.0%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
48.8%
1,052 votes · D+2.2 · 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
8,717votes
83.2% of the vote · D+67.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 8,654 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
2,275votes
37.9% of the vote · D+24.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 2,243 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
+59.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+67.1 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +59.0 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
−11.5pts R vs U.S.
Place D+29.3 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · −19.7 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+54.5, this Wilmington-area district ranks among the state's most reliably blue constituencies, where general-election outcomes are rarely competitive and primary contests carry the most decisive weight.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 67.1 points in 2008. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 54.6 points.
A population of 24,169, a 32% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,804 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Representative District 3 and State Representative District 5.
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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