- Lead
- 2,613
- Total
- 15,876
- vs nation
- D+17.9
Delaware 22nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,388
- Total
- 16,702
- vs nation
- D+15.8
- Lead
- 1,314
- Total
- 15,242
- vs nation
- D+6.5
- Lead
- 1,871
- Total
- 14,553
- vs nation
- D+9.0
- Lead
- 2,929
- Total
- 14,584
- vs nation
- D+12.8
- Lead
- 82
- Total
- 14,360
- vs nation
- D+1.9
- Lead
- 140
- Total
- 12,603
- vs nation
- D+0.6
- Lead
- 97
- Total
- 10,643
- vs nation
- R+7.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+16.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 25,0642024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,885 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 13.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $161,0072024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 75.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+20.3 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+53.6 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- 18th Essex District, MA · twin score 87.1
presidential history
Party record book
Delaware 22nd 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
Joe Biden2020
59.4%
9,922 votes · D+20.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 59.3%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
76.5%
3,657 votes · R+53.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 70.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
9,922votes
59.4% of the vote · D+20.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 9,105 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
7,867votes
67.8% of the vote · R+36.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 7,734 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
+17.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+16.5 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +15.8 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+48.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+30.8 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +36.2 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 22nd House district recorded a D+16.5 margin in 2024, reflecting the dense suburban and urban composition typical of New Castle County's core. Turnout patterns here tend to track closely with statewide Democratic performance.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 20.3 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 53.6 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 16.5 points.
A population of 25,064, a 75% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $161,007 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of 18th Essex District 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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