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Democrat · Delaware Senate, district 5

Serving since Nov 7, 2018DE 2025–26 session

Portrait of Ray Seigfried, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
79%
of itemized money from Delaware donors, in the bottom quarter of State Senate Democrats

79% of the itemized money from individuals in the 2026 cycle came from donors with an address in Delaware. Ranks 587th of 714, where 1st is the highest share. 193 itemized donors.

Only donors who give more than $200 are reported with an address, so this is the share of that itemized money from donors living in Delaware, ranked among State Senate Democrats. Small gifts are not counted either way. Candidates running statewide or for federal office often draw more money from out of state.

At a glance

6 measures against the Delaware Senate. Seigfried sits at −0.78 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 70% of State Senate Democrats. 80% of the 30 bills Seigfried sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom half of the Delaware Senate.

The measures on which Seigfried sits furthest from the middle of the Delaware Senate, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.

Attendance

99.6%

Delaware Senate average 95.8% · ranks 2nd of 21 · 994 roll calls

From Delaware, 2026

79%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 587th of 714 State Senate Democrats

Party unity

100%

Delaware Senate average 97.0% · ranks 5th of 21 · 2 votes against the majority of Delaware Senate Democrats

CSIP ideology

−0.78

More liberal than 70% of State Senate Democrats · ± 0.09

Out of committee

80%

Delaware Senate average 82% · ranks 14th of 21

Itemized, 2026

$85.1K

State Senate Democrats’ median $55.5K · ranks 295th of 746

Peer group: Delaware Senate. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Seigfried, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Seigfried is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).

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What Seigfried says

No statements for the DE 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

Back to topNext: Policy

Policy

No policy statements for the DE 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

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Ideology

Seigfried sits at −0.78 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more liberal than 70% of State Senate Democrats. Approximate range −0.87 to −0.70, which understates the uncertainty; from 198 donors and 105 roll calls.

CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.

−0.78

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range −0.87 to −0.70. From 198 donors and 105 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Seigfried −0.8State Senate Democrats −0.7Delaware Senate −0.7All State Senate +0.1

The outlined dot is Seigfried, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of Seigfried’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.

What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.

Where Seigfried sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State Senate Democratsmedian −0.7Seigfried −0.8Delaware Senatemedian −0.7All State Senatemedian +0.1
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Seigfried's CSIP score of −0.78 placed against State Senate Democrats, Delaware Senate, All State Senate.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Seigfried
State Senate Democrats825−0.730%
Delaware Senate21−0.724%
All State Senate1909+0.113%
How to read the strips

Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is Seigfried in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of Seigfried.

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Money

Seigfried reported $85.1K in the 2026 cycle, above the State Senate Democrats’ median of $55.5K. State filings report no small-donation total. 79% of itemized individual money came from Delaware.

Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.

Election cycle
$85.1K

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 193 itemized donors. State Senate Democrats’ median $55.5K.

Where the money came from

Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.

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  • Individuals (itemized)59 squares$50.6K
  • PACs and other committees35 squares$29.7K
  • Party committees6 squares$4,900
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Sources of Seigfried's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$50.6K59.4%
PACs and other committees$29.7K34.8%
Party committees$4,9005.8%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.

Receipts by cycle

Itemized contributions, 2024 to 2026. The grey line is the State Senate Democrats’ median for 2026.

2024 cycle: $5,850$5,85020242026 cycle: $85.1K$85.1K2026State Senate Democrats median $55.5K
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Seigfried's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State Senate Democrats median.
ItemValue
2024 cycle$5,850
2026 cycle$85.1K

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 79% came from Delaware.

  1. Delaware$40.0K
  2. Pennsylvania$5,805
  3. New Jersey$1,330
  4. District of Columbia$1,200
  5. Maryland$930

Small donations

State filings report no total for small gifts.

Not reported in state filings.

Where itemized donors live

Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state

Alaska: no dataAKMaine: $3MEVermont: no dataVTNew Hampshire: no dataNHWashington: no dataWAIdaho: no dataIDMontana: no dataMTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: $6MNIllinois: no dataILWisconsin: $200WIMichigan: no dataMINew York: $28NYRhode Island: $28RIMassachusetts: $5MAOregon: $30ORNevada: no dataNVWyoming: no dataWYSouth Dakota: no dataSDIowa: no dataIAIndiana: $21INOhio: $1OHPennsylvania: $5,805PANew Jersey: $1,330NJConnecticut: $10CTCalifornia: $207CAUtah: no dataUTColorado: $30CONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: no dataMOKentucky: $5KYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: $100VAMaryland: $930MDDelaware: $40.0KDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: $10TNNorth Carolina: no dataNCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: $1,200DCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: $600ALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: no dataTXFlorida: no dataFL
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Seigfried's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Delaware$40.0K
Pennsylvania$5,805
New Jersey$1,330
District of Columbia$1,200
Maryland$930
Alabama$600
California$207
Wisconsin$200
Virginia$100
Oregon$30
Colorado$30
New York$28
Rhode Island$28
Indiana$21
Connecticut$10
Tennessee$10
Minnesota$6
Massachusetts$5
Kentucky$5
Maine$3
Ohio$1
AlaskaNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
WashingtonNo data
IdahoNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
IllinoisNo data
MichiganNo data
NevadaNo data
WyomingNo data
South DakotaNo data
IowaNo data
UtahNo data
NebraskaNo data
MissouriNo data
West VirginiaNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
KansasNo data
ArkansasNo data
North CarolinaNo data
South CarolinaNo data
OklahomaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
TexasNo data
FloridaNo data
193

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

79%

from Delaware

Of itemized individual dollars

How to read the map

Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is Delaware. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No occupations reported.

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

  1. NEW CASTLE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE 6TH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRI$4,900
  2. DELAWARE BUILDING & CONSTRUCTON TRADES/ PAC (DBTC PAC)$1,200
  3. DELAWARE SENATE MAJORITY CAUCUS CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE$1,200
  4. DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATIVE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE$1,200
  5. DEMOCRATS 2024$1,200

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

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Votes

Seigfried voted with the majority of Delaware Senate Democrats on 100% of party-line votes and missed 0.4% of 994 roll calls. Delaware Senate on average: 97.0% party unity, 95.8% attendance. Across all roll calls, Seigfried voted against the majority of Delaware Senate Democrats 2 times.

994 roll calls Seigfried could vote on in the DE 2025–26 session, compared with Delaware Senate. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where Seigfried voted with the majority of Delaware Senate Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

2

votes against the majority of Delaware Senate Democrats

Party unity 100%, Delaware Senate average 97.0%, ranks 5th of 21. 994 roll calls in the DE 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Seigfried, the thin grey bar the Delaware Senate average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
Seigfried
Peers
Rank
Attendance
99.6%
95.8%
2nd of 21
Party unity
100%
97.0%
5th of 21
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Seigfried's attendance and party unity against Delaware Senate.
RowSeigfriedPeers
Attendance99.6%95.8%
Party unity100%97.0%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

A missed roll call has many causes, from illness to campaigning, so attendance says how often, not why. A vote against the majority can be on procedure as well as substance, and many fall on roll calls where both parties split; the key votes below show the ones that decided something.

Key votes

25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the DE 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Jul 1, 2026
HB 452
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION AND BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR CHILD-SERVING ENTITIES.
Passage
YeaWith majoritypassD 11–0 · R 2–3Democrats 11 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 2 yea, 3 naybecame law
Jul 1, 2026
SB 278
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE.
Passage
YeaWith majoritypassD 15–0 · R 4–0Democrats 15 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 4 yea, 0 naybecame law
Jul 1, 2026
HB 145
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO REVERSE LOCATION AND REVERSE KEYWORD SEARCHES AND COURT ORDERS.
Passage
YeaWith majoritypassD 11–0 · R 0–4Democrats 11 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 0 yea, 4 naybecame law
Jul 1, 2026
SB 332
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL VANITY LICENSE PLATES.
Passage
YeaWith majoritypassD 15–0 · R 5–0Democrats 15 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 5 yea, 0 naybecame law
Jul 1, 2026
HB 355
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT, HARASSMENT, AND DISCRIMINATION.
Passage
YeaWith majoritypassD 15–0 · R 5–0Democrats 15 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 5 yea, 0 naybecame law
How key votes are chosen

Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.

Votes most often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Seigfried most often

  1. Dave SokolaD980 shared votes100%
  2. Dan CruceD959 shared votes100%
  3. Stephanie HansenD980 shared votes100%
  4. Trey ParadeeD927 shared votes100%
  5. Bryan TownsendD979 shared votes100%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Seigfried least often

  1. Dave LawsonR828 shared votes91%
  2. Bryant RichardsonR967 shared votes92%
  3. Gerald HockerR942 shared votes92%
  4. Dave WilsonR959 shared votes92%
  5. Brian PettyjohnR960 shared votes93%
How to read the agreement lists

The share of roll calls both members voted on where they voted the same way, among colleagues sharing at least 50 such votes. High agreement with members of the other party is common on routine votes.

Full voting record

DE 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Seigfried sponsored 30 bills in the DE 2025–26 session; 22 became law. Cosponsored 214 others. 80% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Delaware Senate average 82%; 14th of 21).

The bills Seigfried sponsored and cosponsored in the DE 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.

Bills by stage

Counts for the DE 2025–26 session

Sponsored30 billsSponsored, Introduced: 3030Sponsored, In committee: 2929Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 2424Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 2323Sponsored, Became law: 2222Cosponsored214 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 214214Cosponsored, In committee: 214214Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 195195Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 188188Cosponsored, Became law: 126126IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Seigfried sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored3029242322
Cosponsored214214195188126
How to read the blocks

Ink blocks are bills Seigfried sponsored, ochre blocks bills Seigfried cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.

80%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Delaware Senate average 82%. Ranks 14th of 21.

Cosponsorship partners

Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Seigfried, by number of shared bills in the DE 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.

  1. Eric Morrison89
  2. Stephanie Hansen84
  3. Claire Snyder-Hall82
  4. Dave Sokola80
  5. Russ Huxtable77
What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of Seigfried’s bills; the toggle shows more.

Bill list

Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest

Bills sponsored and cosponsored
SCR 219RECOGNIZING JUNE 19, 2026, AS "JUNETEENTH NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY" IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE.CosponsorJun 18, 2026Passed both chambersUnassignedPassed In House by Voice Vote Jun 18, 2026
SCR 222RECOGNIZING SEPTEMBER 2026 AS “VETERANS SUICIDE PREVENTION MONTH” IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE.CosponsorJun 18, 2026Passed both chambersUnassignedPassed In House by Voice Vote Jun 23, 2026
SCR 250CELEBRATING THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA 250.CosponsorJun 17, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedPassed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES Jun 17, 2026
SCR 211RECOGNIZING SEPTEMBER 24 - 27, 2026, AS “FIRST RESPONDER SUICIDE AWARENESS DAYS" IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE.CosponsorJun 16, 2026Passed both chambersUnassignedPassed In House by Voice Vote Jun 17, 2026
HCR 143RECOGNIZING JUNE 15, 2026, AS "DELAWARE ELDER ABUSE AWARENESS DAY".CosponsorJun 11, 2026Passed both chambersUnassignedPassed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT Jun 11, 2026

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Online

The lab crawls Seigfried’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images Seigfried posts with a vision model.

Websites

No websites are tracked for this official.

How to read the counts

“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.

Images Seigfried posted

No images from Seigfried’s posts have been described.

About the descriptions

Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.

State floor speeches

21 turns, Mar 27, 2025 to Oct 1, 2026

Floor speeches

Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.

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Methods and sources

How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.

The headline

The headline is the measure on which Seigfried is most unusual among Delaware Senate, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.

The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.

A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).

Identifiers

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Bulk files with the same data for every official:

Freshness of this profile’s data

  • What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
  • Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
  • Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
  • Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
  • Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
  • WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
  • State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.

How the measures work

What politicians say
Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
Extreme labels
A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
Policy areas and agreement
Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology (CSIP)
Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
Campaign money
Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
Votes and key votes
Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
Peers and ranks
Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.

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