RepublicanNot in office · last served 2024Last on a ballot: Nov 2022
Ruth Briggs King
Last held office: Delaware House of Representatives, District 37 (2018–2024). Ran in 7 elections between 2010 and 2022, winning 7.
- Last margin
- +30.7
- Won 2014
- Elections
- 7
- 2010–2022
Source: Wikidata, congress-legislators and Open States; 99chambers legislative records
Career
Offices held, and every time King was on a ballot. Filled marks are general elections won; hollow marks are primaries; an orange outline is a loss.
2010201220142016201820202022202420262028Delaware House of Representatives, District 37Delaware House of Representatives, District 37
Source: 99chambers results archive (MEDSL, Klarner, state election offices)
Every race King has run
Baseline: how the seat voted for president in the same or nearest year. Running ahead of it means King won voters the party’s presidential nominee did not; primaries have no baseline.
| Year | Office | Stage | Result | Opponents | Share | Margin | Baseline | Against baseline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Delaware House of Representatives, District 37 | General | Won | Unopposed | 100% | — | R+11.7 | |
| 2020 | Delaware House of Representatives, District 37 | General | Won | Unopposed | 100% | — | — | |
| 2018 | Delaware House of Representatives, District 37 | General | Won | Unopposed | 100% | — | — | |
| 2014 | Delaware House of Representatives, District 37 | General | Won | Paulette A. Rappa (D) | 65.3% | R+30.7 | — | |
| 2014 | Delaware House of Representatives, District 37 | Primary | Won | Unopposed | — | — | — | |
| 2012 | Delaware House of Representatives, District 37 | General | Won | Elizabeth E. McGinn (D) | 54.8% | R+9.7 | — | |
| 2010 | Delaware House of Representatives, District 37 | General | Won | Frank E. Shade (D) | 61.8% | R+23.5 | — |
Source: 99chambers results archive
Seats King has held
- Delaware House of Representatives, District 37 · 2018–2024
- Delaware House of Representatives, District 37 · 2010–2016
Source: 99chambers results archive
Who King has run against
- Paulette A. Rappa (D) · 2014 election, won
- Elizabeth E. McGinn (D) · 2012 election, won
- Frank E. Shade (D) · 2010 election, won
Source: 99chambers results archive