- Lead
- 2,053
- Total
- 7,996
- vs nation
- D+27.1
Delaware 32nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,535
- Total
- 8,765
- vs nation
- D+24.5
- Lead
- 1,473
- Total
- 7,388
- vs nation
- D+17.8
- Lead
- 2,103
- Total
- 6,995
- vs nation
- D+26.2
- Lead
- 2,390
- Total
- 6,919
- vs nation
- D+27.3
- Lead
- 669
- Total
- 5,444
- vs nation
- D+14.7
- Lead
- 1,092
- Total
- 4,792
- vs nation
- D+22.3
- Lead
- 1,137
- Total
- 4,042
- vs nation
- D+19.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+25.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,3712024 5-year
- Population density
- 730 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 32 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $66,2762024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 42.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 34.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 11.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+54.7 in 1884MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+3.4 in 1984MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Representative District 31, DE · twin score 96.4
presidential history
Party record book
Delaware 32nd 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
77.4%
506 votes · D+54.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 75.4%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
51.5%
1,590 votes · R+3.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 48.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
5,562votes
63.5% of the vote · D+28.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 4,960 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
3,027votes
34.5% of the vote · D+28.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 2,907 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
+57.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+30.8 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +52.1 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1968
−13.1pts R vs U.S.
Place D+12.4 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · −13.1 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 57.5%4,131 | 42.5%3,059 | 7,190 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+25.6, this Wilmington-area district ranks among the state's most reliably Democratic constituencies, reflecting the dense urban concentration that drives statewide Democratic margins.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 54.7 points in 1884 and a Republican high of 3.4 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 25.7 points.
A population of 23,371, a 43% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,276 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Representative District 31 and State Representative District 28.
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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Delaware 32nd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/10032/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.