- Lead
- 3,912
- Total
- 10,718
- vs nation
- D+38.0
Delaware 17th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,874
- Total
- 11,760
- vs nation
- D+37.0
- Lead
- 3,813
- Total
- 10,645
- vs nation
- D+33.7
- Lead
- 4,150
- Total
- 10,328
- vs nation
- D+36.3
- Lead
- 4,895
- Total
- 10,547
- vs nation
- D+39.1
- Lead
- 2,827
- Total
- 9,770
- vs nation
- D+31.4
- Lead
- 2,561
- Total
- 8,578
- vs nation
- D+29.3
- Lead
- 1,986
- Total
- 7,161
- vs nation
- D+19.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+36.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 24,6992024 5-year
- Population density
- 950 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 26 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $74,7622024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 44.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 32.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 16.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+46.4 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+29.5 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Representative District 16, DE · twin score 96.4
presidential history
Party record book
Delaware 17th 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
72.7%
7,664 votes · D+46.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 70.1%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
64.5%
1,766 votes · R+29.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 59.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
8,244votes
70.1% of the vote · D+41.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 7,664 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
3,810votes
53.7% of the vote · R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 3,752 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
+39.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+46.4 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +38.0 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+19.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+1.7 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +12.0 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 36 points, this Wilmington-area district ranks among the state's most reliably Democratic, reflecting the dense urban concentration and diverse demographics typical of Delaware's largest city.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 46.4 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 29.5 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 36.5 points.
A population of 24,699, a 44% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $74,762 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Representative District 16 and State Representative District 18.
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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