- Lead
- 1,932
- Total
- 11,633
- vs nation
- D+18.1
Delaware 28th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,107
- Total
- 12,044
- vs nation
- D+13.0
- Lead
- 941
- Total
- 10,559
- vs nation
- D+6.8
- Lead
- 1,872
- Total
- 9,961
- vs nation
- D+14.9
- Lead
- 2,315
- Total
- 9,806
- vs nation
- D+16.3
- Lead
- 1
- Total
- 8,015
- vs nation
- D+2.5
- Lead
- 726
- Total
- 7,144
- vs nation
- D+9.6
- Lead
- 972
- Total
- 5,840
- vs nation
- D+8.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+16.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 25,7032024 5-year
- Population density
- 247 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 104 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $67,4662024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 50.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 33.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+43.2 in 1884MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+18.6 in 1984MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Representative District 32, DE · twin score 91.4
presidential history
Party record book
Delaware 28th 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
Grover Cleveland1884
71.5%
653 votes · D+43.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 69.0%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
59.2%
2,865 votes · R+18.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 57.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
6,974votes
57.9% of the vote · D+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 6,692 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
4,867votes
40.4% of the vote · D+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 4,760 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
James M. Cox1920
+40.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+14.8 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +35.0 pts
Republican
George H. W. Bush1988
+2.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+9.8 · U.S. R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · +0.4 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.
Its Democratic presidential margin was D+16.6 in 2024 and D+23.6 in 2008. The district had about 39,900 residents, 57.5% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 43.2 points in 1884 and a Republican high of 18.6 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 16.6 points.
A population of 25,703, a 51% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $67,466 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Representative District 32 and State House District 119.
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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