Washington’s cities each elect their own mayor or council-manager government. Delaware works differently: outside Wilmington, the closest thing most of these 79 places have to an identifiable elected representative is whoever holds their State House and Senate seat—district lines that were drawn for the legislature, not for any one town or city.
State House and Senate district lines are redrawn for population balance, not municipal shape, so a single place routinely falls under several incumbents at once.
The extreme caseWilmington alone spans 5 House districts and 3 Senate districts—more overlapping legislative representation than any other Delaware place in this collection.
25 held by Democrats, 14 held by Republicans, counting each district once regardless of how many places it touches.
15 held by Democrats, 6 held by Republicans, counting each district once regardless of how many places it touches.
A president, 4 at-large members, and 8 district representatives run the city’s own government, on top of its legislative delegation above.
Why the other 78 places don’t have one56 incorporated municipalities have no statewide directory of their own mayor, council, or meeting schedule—Delaware has nothing like Washington’s MRSC covering every city. The remaining 22 places are unincorporated census-designated places with no town government to direct at all.
Incorporated municipalities besides Wilmington set their own charters, election dates, and meeting schedules, and Delaware runs no single statewide directory of them the way it does for legislative seats. Check each town’s own site, or the state’s municipal-elections page, before relying on a name here for a current officeholder.
Delaware municipal elections ↗District lines and incumbents are a current directory snapshot. Follow the official links before relying on a name.
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State House and Senate districts and incumbents: Delaware General Assembly / City of Wilmington, via Delaware FirstMap, checked 2026-09-12. A vacancy, resignation, or mid-term appointment can lag this snapshot by a few weeks.