Delaware House of Representatives elections, 2024
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| 2024 Delaware House Elections | |
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| Primary | September 10, 2024 |
| General | November 5, 2024 |
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Elections for the Delaware House of Representatives 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 27-14 majority. Democrats had a two-thirds supermajority in the Senate but not the House before the election. Democrats needed to lose fewer than two Senate seats and gain at least two House seats to reach a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers. Republicans needed to win at least two Senate seats or lose fewer than two House seats to prevent a Democratic legislative supermajority. Democrats maintained a 15-6 supermajority in the Senate.
The Delaware House of Representatives was one of 85 state legislative chambers with elections in 2024. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.
Party control
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| Party | As of November 5, 2024 | After November 6, 2024 | |
| Democratic Party | 26 | 27 | |
| Republican Party | 15 | 14 | |
| Total | 41 | 41 | |
Candidates
General election
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Kathy McGuiness Did not make the ballot: |
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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 0.7 incumbent defeats per cycle from 2010 to 2022.
Incumbents defeated in primaries
One incumbent lost in primaries. This was less than the average of 1.3 incumbent defeats per cycle from 2010 to 2022.
| Name | Party | Office |
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| Valerie Longhurst | House District 15 |
Retiring incumbents
Four incumbents did not file for re-election in 2024.[1] That is more than the average number of incumbents who did not run for re-election from 2010-2022 (2.4). Those incumbents were:
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
