Delaware's at-large congressional district

Delaware's at-large congressional district
Representative	Lisa Blunt Rochester D–Wilmington
Area	2,489 sq mi (6,450 km2)
Distribution	83.3% urban[1] 16.7% rural
Population (2023)	1,031,890
Median household income	$81,361[2]
Ethnicity	58.6% White 21.5% Black 10.5% Hispanic 4.3% Asian 4.3% Two or more races 0.8% other
Cook PVI	D+7[3]

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.

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 Lisa Blunt Rochester, a Democrat, who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2024, taking office in January 2025, and will be succeeded by representative-elect Sarah McBride, the first transgender person elected to Congress, in January 2025.