- Lead
- 5,488
- Total
- 37,941
- vs nation
- D+15.9
Delaware 6th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,167
- Total
- 32,531
- vs nation
- D+8.4
- Lead
- 160
- Total
- 25,783
- vs nation
- R+2.7
- Lead
- 2,143
- Total
- 23,181
- vs nation
- D+5.4
- Lead
- 3,095
- Total
- 22,465
- vs nation
- D+6.5
- Lead
- 24
- Total
- 18,931
- vs nation
- D+2.3
- Lead
- 2,395
- Total
- 16,568
- vs nation
- D+13.9
- Lead
- 2,768
- Total
- 13,377
- vs nation
- D+12.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+14.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 48,4222024 5-year
- Population density
- 409 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 118 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $95,9282024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 84.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+41.9 in 1884MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+71.5 in 1952MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 20, DE · twin score 84.9
presidential history
Party record book
Delaware 6th 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
Grover Cleveland1884
70.9%
1,474 votes · D+41.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 69.1%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
85.0%
3,440 votes · R+71.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 56.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
21,487votes
56.6% of the vote · D+14.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 18,190 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
15,999votes
42.2% of the vote · D+14.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 14,023 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
+43.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+17.2 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +38.9 pts
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
+60.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+71.5 · U.S. R+10.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +2.7 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 6th State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 41.9 points in 1884 and a Republican high of 71.5 points in 1952. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.7 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.5 points.
A population of 48,422, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $95,928 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 20 and State Senate District 24.
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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Delaware 6th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/10006/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.