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Last updated: October 28, 2024
Thousands of general elections are taking place across the United States on November 5, 2024. Those elections include offices at the federal, state, and local levels. This is one of 50 pages in which Ballotpedia previews the elections happening in each state as part of the Daily Brew’s 50 states in 25 days series.
This page provides an overview of all elections happening in Delaware within our coverage scope on November 5, 2024. Those elections include offices for one U.S. Senator, one [[United States House of Representatives election in Delaware, 2024|U.S. Representative, governor, lieutenant governor, and insurance commissioner, 10 state Senators, and 41 state Representatives.
On this page, you will also find information regarding:
- How to vote in Delaware
- The elected offices that Delaware voters can expect to see on their ballots
- The races in Delaware that Ballotpedia is covering as battlegrounds
- The ballot measures that voters in Delaware will decide on
- Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool
- The partisan balance of Delaware's congressional delegation and state government
- Past presidential election results in Delaware
- The competitiveness of legislative elections in Delaware
- The candidates who are on the ballot in Delaware
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Delaware
What's on the ballot?
2024 elections
- See also: Delaware elections, 2024
At the federal level, Delaware voters will elect one U.S. Senator, and one U.S. Representative. Incumbent Sen. Tom Carper (D) did not run for re-election. Incumbent Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D) is running for U.S. Senate.
Three state executive offices are up for election: governor, lieutenant governor, and insurance commissioner.
All 41 seats in the state House and 10 of 21 seats in the state Senate are up for election. There are five open seats in the House and no open seats in the Senate.
Delaware is one of 26 states where we are expanding our local election coverage beyond the nation's biggest cities, school districts, and state capitals. Including those mentioned above, Ballotpedia is covering 30 races featuring 40 candidates for offices such as local councils and other county-level positions.
Below is a list of Delaware elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2024. Click the links to learn more about each type:
| Delaware elections, 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Office | Elections? | More information |
| U.S. Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| U.S. House | ✓ | Click here |
| Congress special election | — | — |
| Governor | ✓ | Click here |
| Other state executive | ✓ | Click here |
| State Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| State House | ✓ | Click here |
| Special state legislative | — | — |
| State Supreme Court | — | — |
| Intermediate appellate courts | — | — |
| School boards | — | — |
| Municipal government | — | — |
| Recalls | — | — |
| Ballot measures | — | — |
| Local ballot measures | — | — |
Legend: ✓ election(s) / — no elections
Subject to Ballotpedia's scope
Your ballot
- See also: Sample Ballot Lookup
Noteworthy elections
As of Oct. 28, 2024, Ballotpedia did not identify any battleground general election races in Delaware.
Ballot measures
- See also: Delaware 2024 ballot measures
There are no statewide ballot measures on the ballot in Delaware.
Delaware does not allow citizen initiative, referendum, or recall. At least three non-binding ballot measures have been put before voters in Delaware. Click here to learn more.
State analysis
Partisan balance
Both of Delaware's U.S. Senators — Chris Coons (D) and Tom Carper (D) — are Democrats. Incumbent Lisa Blunt Rochester (D) represents Delaware's At-Large Congressional District.
Democrats have a 26-15 majority in the state House and a 15-6 majority in the state Senate.
Because Gov. John Carney Jr. is a Democrat, Delaware is one of 17 states with a Democratic trifecta. It has had this status since 2009, after Democrats won a majority in the state House.
Delaware's attorney general and secretary of state are both Democrats. This means Delaware is one of 20 states with a Democratic triplex.
Past presidential election results in Delaware
- See also: Presidential election in Delaware, 2024
How a state's counties vote in a presidential election and the size of those counties can provide additional insights into election outcomes at other levels of government including statewide and congressional races. Below, four categories are used to describe each county's voting pattern over the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections: Solid, Trending, Battleground, and New. Click [show] on the table below for examples:
| County-level voting pattern categories | |||||||
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| Democratic | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Democratic | D | D | D | ||||
| Trending Democratic | R | D | D | ||||
| Battleground Democratic | D | R | D | ||||
| New Democratic | R | R | D | ||||
| Republican | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Republican | R | R | R | ||||
| Trending Republican | D | R | R | ||||
| Battleground Republican | R | D | R | ||||
| New Republican | D | D | R | ||||
Following the 2020 presidential election, 57.7% of Delawareans lived in New Castle County, the state's one Solid Democratic county, which voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election from 2012 to 2020, and 24.0% lived in Sussex County, the state's one Solid Republican county. Overall, Delaware was Solid Democratic, having voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2012, Hillary Clinton (D) in 2016, and Joe Biden (D) in 2020. Use the table below to view the total number of each type of county in Delaware following the 2020 election as well as the overall percentage of the state population located in each county type.
| Delaware county-level statistics, 2020 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solid Democratic | 1 | 57.7% | |||||
| Solid Republican | 1 | 24.0% | |||||
| Battleground Democratic | 1 | 18.4% | |||||
| Total voted Democratic | 2 | 76.0% | |||||
| Total voted Republican | 1 | 24.0% | |||||
State legislative competitiveness
According to Ballotpedia's annual state legislative competitiveness report, Delaware had a Competitiveness Index of 22.7, ranking it 40th of the 44 states that held elections.
- Five of the 51 seats up for election were open (10%).
- Seven of the 46 incumbents who ran for re-election faced contested primaries (15%).
- 22 of the 51 seats up for election were contested by both major parties (43%).
2010-2024
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| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Delaware, 2010-2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | Rank | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | 7.7% | 14.6% | 65.4% | 29.2 | 27 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | 16.1% | 20.8% | 50.0% | 29.0 | 34 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | 3.9% | 18.4% | 56.9% | 26.4 | 27 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | 3.8% | 12.0% | 46.2% | 20.7 | 37 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 27.5% | 8.1% | 66.7% | 34.1 | 27 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | 3.8% | 14.0% | 50.0% | 22.6 | 41 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 11.3% | 14.5% | 54.8% | 26.9 | 39 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 9.8% | 15.2% | 43.1% | 22.7 | 40 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
In 2024
Hover over column headings to learn more about their contents. Click on headings for more state-specific information.
| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Delaware, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chamber | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | ||||||||||||||||||||
| House | 12.2% | 16.7% | 51.2% | 26.7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Senate | 0.0% | 10.0% | 10.0% | 6.7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 9.8% | 15.2% | 43.1% | 22.7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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See also
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