- Lead
- 3,333
- Total
- 10,849
- vs nation
- D+32.2
Delaware 23rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,899
- Total
- 11,850
- vs nation
- D+28.4
- Lead
- 2,517
- Total
- 11,171
- vs nation
- D+20.4
- Lead
- 2,874
- Total
- 10,612
- vs nation
- D+23.2
- Lead
- 3,651
- Total
- 10,736
- vs nation
- D+26.7
- Lead
- 1,498
- Total
- 10,234
- vs nation
- D+17.1
- Lead
- 1,438
- Total
- 9,047
- vs nation
- D+15.4
- Lead
- 1,117
- Total
- 7,833
- vs nation
- D+5.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+30.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,8702024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,473 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 16.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $108,5692024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 70.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+34.0 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+42.1 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Representative District 25, DE · twin score 89.9
presidential history
Party record book
Delaware 23rd 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
66.1%
7,100 votes · D+34.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 65.4%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
70.7%
2,202 votes · R+42.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 63.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
7,752votes
65.4% of the vote · D+32.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 7,100 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
4,724votes
60.8% of the vote · R+22.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 4,649 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
+32.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+30.7 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +28.4 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+34.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+16.4 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +24.6 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.
Delaware 23rd State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 34.0 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 42.1 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 30.7 points.
A population of 23,870, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $108,569 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Representative District 25 and State House District 35.
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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