Delaware State Senate elections, 2024
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| Primary | September 10, 2024 |
| General | November 5, 2024 |
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Elections for the Delaware State Senate took place in 2024. The general election was on November 5, 2024. The primary was September 10, 2024. The filing deadline was July 9, 2024.
Following the election, Democrats maintained a 15-6 veto-proof majority. Democrats needed to lose fewer than two Senate seats and gain at least two House seats to reach a two-thirds veto-proof majority in both chambers. Republicans needed to win at least two Senate seats or lose fewer than two House seats to prevent a Democratic legislative veto-proof majority. Democrats maintained a 27-14 majority in the House.
The Delaware State Senate was one of 85 state legislative chambers with elections in 2024. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.
Incumbents ran for re-election in the primary in all 10 Senate districts up for election in 2024. Nine of those ten incumbents were unopposed in the primary. One incumbent ran a contested primary in Senate District 18. As of September 9, 2024, at least six incumbents were uncontested in the general election.
Party control
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| Party | As of November 5, 2024 | After November 6, 2024 | |
| Democratic Party | 15 | 13 | |
| Republican Party | 6 | 6 | |
| Vacancy | 0 | 2 | |
| Total | 21 | 21 | |
Candidates
General election
Delaware State Senate general election 2024 |
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Jon Roe (Conservative Party) |
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| District 10 |
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| District 11 |
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William McVay (Independent) (Write-in) |
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Primary
Delaware State Senate primary 2024 |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 3 |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 4 |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 6 |
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| District 10 |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 11 |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 16 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 17 |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 18 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 21 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in Delaware
General election race ratings
The table below displays race ratings for each race in this chamber from CNalysis.
Incumbents who were not re-elected
Incumbents defeated in general elections
No incumbents lost in general elections. This was less than the average of 1.1 incumbent defeats per cycle from 2010 to 2022.
Incumbents defeated in primaries
No incumbents lost in primaries. This was less than the average of 0.6 incumbent defeats per cycle from 2010 to 2022.
Retiring incumbents
There were no retiring incumbents in 2024.[1] An average of 1.0 incumbents retired per year from 2010-2022.
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on state legislative primary election competitiveness in Delaware. These totals include data from all regularly-scheduled House and Senate elections. For more information about Ballotpedia's competitiveness analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all state legislative districts up for election in Delaware in 2024. Information below was calculated on July 24, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Delaware had 13 contested state legislative primaries this year, one less than in 2022 when 14 state legislative primaries were contested.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines an incumbent as retiring if the incumbent did not file for office or filed for office but withdrew, was disqualified, or otherwise left a race in a manner other than losing the primary, primary runoff, or convention. If an incumbent runs as a write-in candidate, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring. If an incumbent runs in the same chamber for a different seat, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring.
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Delaware Code, "Title 15, Chapter 33, Section 3301," accessed March 6, 2025
- ↑ Delaware Code, "Title 15, Chapter 31, Subchapter I, Section 3101A," accessed March 6, 2025
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Delaware Code, "Title 15, Chapter 31, Subchapter I, Section 3106," accessed March 6, 2025
- ↑ Delaware Code, "Title 15, Chapter 31, Subchapter I, Section 3101," accessed March 6, 2025
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Delaware Code, "Title 15, Chapter 31, Subchapter I, Section 3103," accessed March 6, 2025
- ↑ Delaware Elections, "Candidate Filing Fees," accessed March 6, 2025
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Delaware Code, "Title 15, Chapter 33, Section 3303," accessed March 6, 2025
- ↑ Delaware Code, "Title 15, Chapter 30, Section 3002," accessed March 6, 2025
- ↑ Delaware Code, "Title 15, Chapter 34, Section 3401," accessed March 6, 2025
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Delaware Code, "Title 15, Chapter 34, Section 3402," accessed March 6, 2025
- ↑ Delaware General Assembly, "House Bill 183," accessed March 6, 2025
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "2024 Legislator Compensation," August 21, 2024
- ↑ Delaware Constitution, "Article II, Section 3," accessed November 1, 2021
- ↑ Delaware Constitution, "Article II, Section 4," accessed November 1, 2021
