- Lead
- 7,761
- Total
- 24,355
- vs nation
- D+33.3
Delaware 5th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,961
- Total
- 25,540
- vs nation
- D+30.6
- Lead
- 6,056
- Total
- 23,687
- vs nation
- D+23.5
- Lead
- 6,872
- Total
- 22,729
- vs nation
- D+26.4
- Lead
- 8,536
- Total
- 23,116
- vs nation
- D+29.7
- Lead
- 3,840
- Total
- 22,001
- vs nation
- D+19.9
- Lead
- 3,645
- Total
- 19,449
- vs nation
- D+18.2
- Lead
- 2,812
- Total
- 16,550
- vs nation
- D+8.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+31.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 44,9722024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,433 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 13.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $99,4882024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 66.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 16.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+36.9 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+39.9 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 1, DE · twin score 95.3
presidential history
Party record book
Delaware 5th 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
67.7%
15,648 votes · D+36.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 66.9%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
69.7%
4,556 votes · R+39.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 62.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
17,076votes
66.9% of the vote · D+35.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 15,850 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
9,791votes
59.3% of the vote · R+18.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 9,625 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
+33.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+31.9 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +30.6 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+31.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+13.9 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +22.4 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.
Delaware 5th State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 36.9 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 39.9 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 31.9 points.
A population of 44,972, a 66% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $99,488 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 1 and State Senate District 12.
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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