Delaware elections in 2026

Delaware US Senate: D 58.0 to R 42.0, safe Democratic, well sourced. Coons holds strong advantage in Delaware Senate race against ticket-splitter Katz

House delegation as simulated: 1 D, 0 R, 0 tossups of 1 district swept.

Model readings of live reporting, not polling. The full Delaware board, with sourcing and the county map where one exists, is on the Midterms 2026 tab of the homepage.

How Delaware votes

Delaware's small size belies its corporate significance as the legal home of much of American business. Its politics are anchored by New Castle County's suburbs, with a more conservative south, and Democrats have won statewide consistently in recent years.

Its largest population centers include Wilmington, Dover. Where a state's people live, and what those places do for a living, is the starting point for how Electorate HQ simulations reason about it.

On the ballot in Delaware

Election day is November 3, 2026. Delaware has 1 statewide race and 1 House seat on the ballot.

Statewide races

House districts

Every House seat is elected every two years. Each district below is listed with the counties inside it, computed from the current Census boundary files, wherever those files give a clean answer. Not sure which district is yours? Use the address lookup below.

• Delaware at-large: Kent, New Castle, Sussex Counties

Find your exact districts

Which district am I in? Delaware districts by county

House districts follow population, not county lines, so a single county can hold several districts and a single district can span many. Each county is listed under the district that holds its center, so if your county appears once above, that district holds most of it and is probably yours. If it appears under several, or if you live near a district line, use the address lookup for the exact answer.

Before you vote in Delaware

Registration deadlines, early voting windows, mail ballot rules and identification requirements are all set at the state level and change between cycles, so the authoritative source is your own election office rather than any national site. The federal directory at vote.gov links to every state's registration system, and your county election office publishes the sample ballot that includes local contests.

The ballot section above covers the federal and statewide offices on the Delaware ballot for November 3, 2026. Each statewide race links to a page with current coverage and an AI-generated simulation of the contest, always labeled as a simulation rather than a poll.

Local races

Local councils and commissions, school boards, judges, sheriffs and municipal offices are also on many Delaware ballots, and they vary block by block. Your county election office publishes the authoritative local sample ballot.

Delaware's weight in Washington

Delaware carries 3 electoral votes, which ranks it 46 of 51 by that measure, and sends 1 voting member to the House.

That arithmetic is why the same national argument lands differently here than in a state of another size: a candidate courting Delaware is competing for a specific share of the map, and the issues below are the ones that share actually turns on.

How Delaware is represented

Delaware is one of the states small enough to elect a single at-large representative, so one person carries the whole state's voice in the House while two senators carry equal weight to those of California. That asymmetry is the deliberate design of the chamber, and it means a voter here has considerably more influence per head in the Senate than a voter in a large state.

Electoral votes follow the same arithmetic, House seats plus two, which is why Delaware carries 3 in a presidential year and why small states carry proportionally more weight there than population alone would give them. The district list above shows every district on the 2026 ballot and the counties the boundary files place inside each one.

Latest Delaware political headlines

Simulate Delaware

In the Electorate HQ simulator, Delaware is one of 51 delegations that reads current reporting and decides a presidential race issue by issue. Results are AI simulations, clearly labeled, with the reasoning shown for every call. See the methodology for what that does and does not mean.

Analysis covering Delaware

• Six states have exactly one representative, and they are not alike

  Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming each elect a single at-large member. The largest is 266 times the smallest.

• The 2026 Senate map covers 62% of the country and 70% of the states

  Thirty-five of fifty states vote for Senate this year. Weighted by people rather than states the share drops, and that gap is the design of the chamber.

• Twenty-six states elect a senator and a governor on the same day in 2026

  The overlap between the Senate class and the gubernatorial cohort is a coincidence of two unrelated calendars, and it decides where money goes.