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Delaware's at-large congressional district is a congressional district that includes the entire U.S. state of Delaware. It is the nation's oldest congressional district, having existed uninterrupted since the 1st United States Congress in 1789. It is also the most populous congressional district in the nation. Delaware has always had only one member of the United States House of Representatives, except for a single decade from 1813 to 1823, when the state had two at-large members. The two seats were filled by a statewide ballot, with the two candidates receiving the highest votes being elected.
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Area | 2,489 sq mi (6,450 km2) |
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Population (2023) | 1,031,890 |
Median household income | $81,361[2] |
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Cook PVI | D+8[3] |
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Mike Castle, a Republican and former governor of Delaware, held this seat from January 1993 until his retirement in January 2011, after his unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination to run for U.S. Senator. Even as Delaware swung heavily Democratic at the state and national level, Castle was usually reelected without serious difficulty. Since his retirement, however, the Democrats have held it with no substantive opposition.
The district is currently represented by Sarah McBride, a Democrat, who was first elected in 2024. McBride is the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.
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See also: List of United States representatives from Delaware and United States House of Representatives elections in Delaware
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Second at-large seat: 1813–1823
From 1813 to 1823, Delaware elected two members of the United States House of Representatives. Both were elected statewide at-large. Four men held the second seat during that decade.
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Member | Party | Term | Congress | Electoral history |
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Thomas Cooper (Georgetown) |
Federalist | March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1817 |
13th 14th |
Elected in 1812. Re-elected in 1814. Lost re-election. |
![]() Willard Hall (Dover) |
Democratic- Republican |
March 4, 1817 – January 22, 1821 |
15th 16th |
Elected in 1816. Re-elected in 1818. Lost re-election and resigned early. |
Vacant | January 22, 1821 – March 3, 1821 |
16th | ||
![]() Caesar Augustus Rodney (Wilmington) |
Democratic- Republican |
March 4, 1821 – January 24, 1822 |
17th | Elected in 1820. Resigned when elected U.S. senator. |
Vacant | January 24, 1822 – October 1, 1822 |
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![]() Daniel Rodney (Lewes) |
Federalist | October 1, 1822 – March 3, 1823 |
Elected to finish his cousin's term. Retired. |
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1920
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Caleb R. Layton (Incumbent) | 52,145 | 56% | |
Democratic | James R. Clements | 40,206 | 43% | |
Socialist | Robert A. Walker | 1,063 | .01% | |
Independent | Howard T. Ennis | 196 | .02% | |
Total votes | 93,609 | 100% | ||
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1922
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | William H. Boyce | 39,126 | 54% | |||
Republican | Caleb R. Layton (Incumbent) | 32,577 | 45% | |||
Independent | Frank A. Houck | 908 | .01% | |||
Total votes | 72,611 | 100% | ||||
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1924
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Republican | Robert G. Houston | 51,536 | 59% | |||
Democratic | William H. Boyce (incumbent) | 35,943 | 41% | |||
Independent | Florence Garvin | 519 | 0.05 | |||
Total votes | 87,998 | 100% | ||||
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1926
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Robert G. Houston (incumbent) | 38,919 | 52% | |
Democratic | Merrill H. Tilghman | 35,943 | 48% | |
Total votes | 74,862 | 100% | ||
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1928
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Robert G. Houston (incumbent) | 66,361 | 64% | |
Democratic | John M. Richardson | 38,045 | 36% | |
Total votes | 104,406 | 100% | ||
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1930
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Robert G. Houston (incumbent) | 48,493 | 56% | |
Democratic | John P. Le Fevre | 38,391 | 44% | |
Independent | Arnold Williams | 127 | 0.01% | |
Total votes | 87,011 | 100% | ||
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1932
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | Wilbur L. Adams | 51,698 | 46% | |||
Republican | Reuben Satterthwaite Jr. | 48,841 | 44% | |||
Prohibition | Francis B. Short | 10,560 | 9% | |||
Socialist | Edgar G. Shaeffer | 887 | 0.08% | |||
Communist | Frank Rhoades | 110 | 0.01% | |||
Total votes | 112,096 | 100% | ||||
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1934
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Republican | J. George Stewart | 52,829 | 53% | |||
Democratic | John C. Hazzard | 45,771 | 46% | |||
Socialist | William A. Mayor | 404 | 0.4% | |||
Communist | Joseph P. Daniels | 58 | .006% | |||
Total votes | 99,062 | 100% | ||||
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1936
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | William F. Allen | 65,485 | 52% | |||
Republican | J. George Stewart (incumbent) | 55,664 | 44% | |||
Republican | James A. Ellison | 5,338 | 4% | |||
Socialist | William A. Mayor | 176 | 0.01% | |||
Total votes | 126,663 | 100% | ||||
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1938
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Republican | George S. Williams | 60,661 | 56% | |||
Democratic | William F. Allen (incumbent) | 46,989 | 43% | |||
Republican | William J. Highfield | 816 | 0.07% | |||
Progressive | Ralph L. Brown | 105 | 0.01% | |||
Total votes | 108,571 | 100% | ||||
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1940
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | Philip A. Traynor | 68,205 | 51% | |||
Republican | George S. Williams (incumbent) | 64,384 | 48% | |||
Independent | Royden C. Caulk | 816 | 0.06% | |||
Total votes | 133,405 | 100% | ||||
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1980
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Tom Evans (incumbent) | 133,842 | 62% | |
Democratic | Robert Maxwell | 81,227 | 37% | |
Libertarian | Lawrence Sullivan | 1,506 | 1% | |
Total votes | 216,575 | 100% | ||
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1982
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | Thomas R. Carper | 98,533 | 52% | |||
Republican | Tom Evans (incumbent) | 87,153 | 46% | |||
American | Mary Gies | 1,109 | 1% | |||
Libertarian | Richard Cohen | 711 | 0.38% | |||
N/A | David Nuttall | 558 | 0.30% | |||
Total votes | 188,064 | 100% | ||||
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1984
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Thomas R. Carper (incumbent) | 142,070 | 58% | |
Republican | Elise du Pont | 100,650 | 41% | |
Libertarian | V. Luther Etzel | 294 | 0.12% | |
Total votes | 243,014 | 100% | ||
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1986
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Thomas R. Carper (incumbent) | 106,351 | 66% | |
Republican | Thomas Nueberger | 53,767 | 33% | |
American | Patrick Harrison | 639 | 0.40% | |
Total votes | 160,757 | 100% | ||
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1988
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Thomas R. Carper (incumbent) | 158,338 | 68% | |
Republican | James P. Krapf | 76,179 | 32% | |
Total votes | 234,517 | 100% | ||
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1990
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Thomas R. Carper (incumbent) | 116,274 | 66% | |
Republican | Ralph Williams | 58,037 | 33% | |
Libertarian | Richard Cohen | 3,121 | 1% | |
N/A | Write-ins | 3 | <0.01% | |
Total votes | 177,435 | 100% | ||
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1992
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Republican | Mike Castle | 153,037 | 55% | |||
Democratic | S. B. Woo | 117,426 | 43% | |||
Libertarian | Peggy Schmitt | 5,661 | 2% | |||
Total votes | 276,124 | 100% | ||||
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1994
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Mike Castle (incumbent) | 137,945 | 71% | |
Democratic | Carol Ann DeSantis | 51,793 | 27% | |
Libertarian | Danny Ray Beaver | 3,866 | 2% | |
Independent Party | Donald M. Hockmuth | 1,404 | 0.72% | |
Total votes | 195,008 | 100% | ||
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1996
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Mike Castle (incumbent) | 185,577 | 70% | |
Democratic | Dennis E. Williams | 73,258 | 27% | |
Libertarian | George A. Jurgensen | 4,000 | 2% | |
Constitution | Felicia B. Johnson | 3,009 | 1% | |
Natural Law | Bob Mattson | 987 | 0.37% | |
Total votes | 266,831 | 100% | ||
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1998
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Mike Castle (incumbent) | 119,811 | 66% | |
Democratic | Dennis E. Williams | 57,446 | 32% | |
Constitution | James P. Webster | 2,411 | 1% | |
Natural Law | Kim Stanley Bemis | 859 | 1% | |
N/A | Write-ins | 2 | <0.01% | |
Total votes | 180,529 | 100% | ||
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2000
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Mike Castle (incumbent) | 211,797 | 68% | |
Democratic | Micheal C. Miller | 96,488 | 31% | |
Constitution | James P. Webster | 2,490 | 0.5% | |
Libertarian | Brad C. Thomas | 2,351 | 0.5% | |
Total votes | 313,126 | 100% | ||
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2002
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Mike Castle (incumbent) | 164,605 | 72% | |
Democratic | Micheal C. Miller | 61,011 | 27% | |
Libertarian | Brad C. Thomas | 2,789 | 1% | |
Total votes | 228,405 | 100% | ||
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2004
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Mike Castle (incumbent) | 245,978 | 69% | |
Democratic | Paul Donnelly | 105,716 | 30% | |
Independent Party | Maurice J. Barros (write-in) | 2,337 | 0.5% | |
Libertarian | William E. Morris | 2,014 | 0.5% | |
Total votes | 356,045 | 100% | ||
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2006
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Mike Castle (incumbent) | 143,897 | 57% | |
Democratic | Dennis Spivack | 97,565 | 39% | |
Independent Party | Karen M. Hartley-Nagle | 5,769 | 2% | |
Green | Michael Berg | 4,463 | 2% | |
Total votes | 251,694 | 100% | ||
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2008
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Mike Castle (incumbent) | 235,437 | 61% | |
Democratic | Karen Hartley-Nagle | 146,434 | 38% | |
Libertarian | Mark Parks | 3,586 | 1% | |
Total votes | 385,457 | 100% | ||
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2010
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | John Carney | 173,543 | 57% | |||
Republican | Glen Urquhart | 125,442 | 41% | |||
Independent Party | Earl R. Lofland | 3,704 | 1% | |||
Libertarian | Brent Wangen | 1,986 | 1% | |||
Independent | Jeffrey Brown | 961 | 0.31% | |||
Total votes | 305,636 | 100% | ||||
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2012
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | John Carney (incumbent) | 249,905 | 64% | |
Republican | Tom Kovach | 129,749 | 33% | |
Green | Bernard August | 4,273 | 2% | |
Libertarian | Scott Gesty | 4,096 | 1% | |
Total votes | 388,023 | 100% | ||
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2014
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | John Carney (incumbent) | 137,251 | 59% | |
Republican | Rose Izzo | 85,146 | 37% | |
Green | Bernard August | 4,801 | 2% | |
Libertarian | Scott Gesty | 4,419 | 2% | |
Total votes | 231,617 | 100% | ||
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2016
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Lisa Blunt Rochester | 233,554 | 56% | |
Republican | Hans Reigle | 172,301 | 41% | |
Green | Mark Andrew Perri | 8,326 | 2% | |
Libertarian | Scott Gesty | 6,436 | 2% | |
Total votes | 420,617 | 100% | ||
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2018
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Lisa Blunt Rochester (incumbent) | 227,353 | 64.5% | |
Republican | Scott Walker | 125,384 | 35.5% | |
Turnout | 352,737 | 46.1% | ||
Total votes | 352,737 | 100% | ||
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2020
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Democratic | Lisa Blunt Rochester (incumbent) | 281,382 | 57.63% | ||
Republican | Lee Murphy | 196,392 | 40.22% | ||
Independent Party | Catherine S. Purcell | 6,682 | 1.37% | ||
Libertarian | David L. Rogers | 3,814 | 0.78% | ||
Total votes | 488,270 | 100% | |||
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2022
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Democratic | Lisa Blunt Rochester (incumbent) | 178,416 | 55.4% | ||
Republican | Lee Murphy | 138,201 | 42.9% | ||
Libertarian | Cody McNutt | 3,074 | 0.9% | ||
Non-Partisan Delaware | David Rogers | 1,958 | 0.6% | ||
Total votes | 321,568 | 100% | |||
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2024
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Sarah McBride | 287,830 | 57.9 | |
Republican | John Whalen | 209,606 | 42.1 | |
Write-in | 0 | 0.0 | ||
Total votes | 497,436 | 100.0 |
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