- Lead
- 3,922
- Total
- 9,228
- vs nation
- D+44.0
Delaware 26th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,699
- Total
- 9,910
- vs nation
- D+43.0
- Lead
- 3,857
- Total
- 9,413
- vs nation
- D+38.9
- Lead
- 4,165
- Total
- 9,127
- vs nation
- D+41.8
- Lead
- 4,810
- Total
- 9,355
- vs nation
- D+44.1
- Lead
- 2,980
- Total
- 8,589
- vs nation
- D+37.2
- Lead
- 2,671
- Total
- 7,585
- vs nation
- D+34.7
- Lead
- 2,075
- Total
- 6,397
- vs nation
- D+23.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+42.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 22,9252024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,184 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 7.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $92,3072024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 36.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 29.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 15.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+51.4 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+23.0 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Representative District 18, DE · twin score 98.7
presidential history
Party record book
Delaware 26th 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
75.1%
7,023 votes · D+51.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 72.9%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
61.1%
1,416 votes · R+23.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 54.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
7,229votes
72.9% of the vote · D+47.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 7,023 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
3,039votes
50.1% of the vote · R+0.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 2,997 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
+44.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+51.4 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +44.0 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+13.0pts R vs U.S.
Place D+4.8 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +5.6 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 exceeding 42 points, this Wilmington-area district ranks among the least competitive in Delaware's lower chamber, reflecting the dense, majority-minority urban core it represents.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 51.4 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 23.0 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 42.5 points.
A population of 22,925, a 37% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $92,307 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Representative District 18 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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