Delaware 2022 Election Results

Delaware held its general election on November 8, 2022, deciding 62 legislative seats and 3 statewide offices. No chamber changed party control.

Highlights

• Democrats added one Senate seat for a 15-6 majority and held the House at 26-15, while keeping their hold on every statewide office.
• The Senate gain came in Senate District 6, the Sussex County seat left open by a retiring Republican, where Russ Huxtable (D) beat Steve Smyk (R), a state representative who gave up his House seat to run. In the House the swaps canceled out: Democrats took Smyk's old House District 20 behind Stell Parker Selby (D), and Republicans won House District 4, which redistricting created west of Rehoboth Beach, with Jeff Hilovsky (R).
• In House District 21 in Pike Creek, Rep. Mike Ramone (R) held off Frank Burns (D) by fewer than 50 votes and prevailed in an automatic recount.
• Statewide, Attorney General Kathy Jennings (D) won a second term over Julianne Murray (R), and Treasurer Colleen Davis (D) won re-election over Greg Coverdale (R). Lydia York (D), who had ousted the convicted incumbent auditor in the September primary, won the office over Janice Lorrah (R). All three lost Kent and Sussex counties but won on the strength of New Castle County. The election ran without the state's mail-in voting and same-day registration laws, which the Delaware Supreme Court struck down a month before Election Day in a suit argued in part by Murray.
• Voters elected the state's most racially diverse General Assembly. Across the 62 legislative races, no incumbent lost in November, and 23 had only one candidate on the ballot.

Legislature

• House (41 seats): 26 D, 15 R before the election, 26 D, 15 R after; control stayed with Democrats.
• Senate (21 seats): 14 D, 7 R before the election, 15 D, 6 R after; control stayed with Democrats.

Statewide races

Legislative races