United States House election in Delaware, 2022 (September 13 Democratic primary)

Elections in Delaware, 2022

• Primary date: Sept. 13
• Mail-in registration deadline: Aug. 20
• Online reg. deadline: Aug. 20
• In-person reg. deadline: Aug. 20

• Early voting starts: Sept. 3
• Early voting ends: Sept. 11
• Poll times: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• Absentee/mail-in deadline: Sept. 13

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Delaware's At-large Congressional District
Democratic primary Republican primary General election
Election details
Filing deadline: July 12, 2022
Primary: September 13, 2022 General: November 8, 2022 Pre-election incumbent: Lisa Blunt Rochester (Democratic)
How to vote
Poll times: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Voting in Delaware
Race ratings
Cook Partisan Voter Index (2022): D+7 Cook Political Report: Solid Democratic Inside Elections: Solid Democratic Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Democratic
Ballotpedia analysis
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See also
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The U.S. House of Representatives election in Delaware was on November 8, 2022. Voters elected one candidate to serve in the U.S. House from the state's one at-large U.S. House district. The primary was scheduled for September 13, 2022. The filing deadline was July 12, 2022. Since only one Democratic candidate filed by the deadline, no primary election was required. Incumbent Lisa Blunt Rochester (D) advanced to the general election.

Candidate filing deadline	Primary election	General election
July 12, 2022	September 13, 2022	November 8, 2022

Heading into the election, the incumbent was Lisa Blunt Rochester (Democratic), who was first elected in 2016.

A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Delaware utilizes a closed primary process, in which the selection of a party's candidates in an election is limited to registered party members.

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on Delaware's Democratic primary for the U.S. House. For more in-depth information on the state's Republican primary and the general election, see the following pages:

• United States House election in Delaware, 2022 (September 13 Republican primary)
• United States House of Representatives elections in Delaware, 2022

Candidates and election results

Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Lisa Blunt Rochester advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Delaware At-large District.

Ballot access requirements

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Delaware in the 2022 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Delaware, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2022
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
Delaware	U.S. House	Ballot-qualified party	N/A	Fixed by party	7/12/2022	Source
Delaware	U.S. House	Unaffiliated	1% of eligible voters	N/A	9/1/2022	Source

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

• District map - An interactive map of the district including cities and towns.
• Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2022 U.S. House elections in the state.
• Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
• Demographics - Information about the state's demographics and how they compare to the country as a whole.
• State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

District map

Below was the map in use at the time of the election. Because Delaware only has one district, it did not change as part of the 2020 redistricting cycle.

Competitiveness

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2022

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Delaware.

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Delaware in 2022. Information below was calculated on August 30, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Two candidates filed to run for Delaware's At-Large U.S. House district, one Democrat and one Republican.

The two candidates who ran this year were one fewer than the three candidates who ran in 2020 and 2018, and five fewer than the seven who ran in 2016, when the seat was last open. Two candidates ran in 2014 and three did in 2012.

Because it only had one U.S. House seat, Delaware did not need to redistrict after the 2020 census.

Incumbent Lisa Blunt Rochester (D), first elected in 2016, ran for re-election. Lee Murphy (R) was the only Republican candidate who filed to run. Blunt Rochester and Murphy were the Democratic and Republican nominees in 2020 as well.

Since the two candidates who filed were from different parties, there were no contested primaries this year. The Republican primary was contested in 2020, 2018, and 2012, while the Democratic primary was contested in 2016. There were no contested primaries in 2014.

Presidential elections

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2022 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+7. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 7 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Delaware's At-Large the 153rd most Democratic district nationally.

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in Delaware's At-Large based on 2022 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
58.8%	39.8%

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in Delaware, 2020

Delaware presidential election results (1900-2020)

• 15 Democratic wins
• 16 Republican wins

Year	1900	1904	1908	1912	1916	1920	1924	1928	1932	1936	1940	1944	1948	1952	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020
Winning Party	R	R	R	D	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	R	R	R	D	D	R	R	D	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D

Demographics

The table below details demographic data in Delaware and compares it to the broader United States as of 2019.

Demographic Data for Delaware
	Delaware	United States
Population	897,934	308,745,538
Land area (sq mi)	1,948	3,531,905
Race and ethnicity**
White	68.8%	72.5%
Black/African American	22.2%	12.7%
Asian	3.9%	5.5%
Native American	0.4%	0.8%
Pacific Islander	0.1%	0.2%
Other (single race)	1.9%	4.9%
Multiple	2.8%	3.3%
Hispanic/Latino	9.2%	18%
Education
High school graduation rate	90%	88%
College graduation rate	32%	32.1%
Income
Median household income	$68,287	$62,843
Persons below poverty level	11.8%	13.4%
Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2010). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2014-2019).
**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

State party control

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of Delaware's congressional delegation as of November 2022.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Delaware, November 2022
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	2	1	3
Republican	0	0	0
Independent	0	0	0
Vacancies	0	0	0
Total	2	1	3

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in Delaware's top four state executive offices as of November 2022.

State executive officials in Delaware, November 2022
Office	Officeholder
Governor	John Carney Jr.
Lieutenant Governor	Bethany Hall-Long
Secretary of State	Jeffrey W. Bullock
Attorney General	Kathy Jennings

State legislature

The tables below highlight the partisan composition of the Delaware General Assembly as of October 2022.

Delaware State Senate

Party		As of October 2022
	Democratic Party	14
	Republican Party	7
	Vacancies	0
Total		21

Delaware House of Representatives

Party		As of October 2022
	Democratic Party	26
	Republican Party	15
	Vacancies	0
Total		41

Trifecta control

As of November 2022, Delaware was a Democratic trifecta, with majorities in both chambers of the state legislature and control of the governorship. The table below displays the historical trifecta status of the state.

Delaware Party Control: 1992-2022
Fourteen years of Democratic trifectas  •  No Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Governor	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
Senate	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
House	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D

See also

• United States House election in Delaware, 2022 (September 13 Republican primary)
• United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2022
• United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
• U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022

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Delaware's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Lisa Blunt Rochester (D)

Chris Coons (D)

Representatives

Sarah McBride (D)

Democratic Party (3)