- Lead
- 11,301
- Total
- 17,868
- vs nation
- D+64.7
Delaware 2nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,843
- Total
- 19,914
- vs nation
- D+65.1
- Lead
- 12,994
- Total
- 18,988
- vs nation
- D+66.3
- Lead
- 13,523
- Total
- 18,909
- vs nation
- D+67.7
- Lead
- 14,835
- Total
- 19,776
- vs nation
- D+67.7
- Lead
- 11,194
- Total
- 17,069
- vs nation
- D+68.0
- Lead
- 9,766
- Total
- 15,120
- vs nation
- D+64.1
- Lead
- 7,588
- Total
- 12,322
- vs nation
- D+53.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+63.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 45,5282024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,828 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 16.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $62,3442024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 22.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 57.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+75.0 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 3, DE · twin score 98.4
presidential history
Party record book
Delaware 2nd State Senate 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
87.3%
17,256 votes · D+75.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 85.3%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
41.8%
1,563 votes · D+16.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 35.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
17,256votes
87.3% of the vote · D+75.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 16,787 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
3,215votes
30.4% of the vote · D+39.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 3,177 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
John Kerry2004
+68.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+65.6 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · +67.7 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
−23.8pts R vs U.S.
Place D+41.6 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · −33.8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | D | 66.1%13,986 | 31.7%6,709 | 21,155 |
| 2018 | D | 72.8%11,827 | 27.2%4,428 | 16,255 |
Delaware 2nd State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 75.0 points in 2008. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 63.2 points.
A population of 45,528, a 23% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,344 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 3 and State Senate District 13.
The state-senate 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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