Larry D. Lambert Jr. is an American politician. He is a Democratic member of the

Delaware House of Representatives The Delaware State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Delaware General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Delaware. It is composed of 41 Representatives from an equal number of constituencies, each of whom is ...

, representing District 7. Lambert is part of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and is an advocate for policies such as

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, a $15 an hour minimum wage,

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, and the

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. He was one of a number of progressive candidates that defeated incumbent centrist Democrats in the 2020 state Democratic primaries. Lambert defeated

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incumbent Democrat

Ray Seigfried Raymond J. Seigfried (born August 23, 1950) is an American politician. He is a Democratic member of the Delaware Senate, representing district 5 since 2025. He previously represented district 7 in the Delaware House of Representatives from 2018 ...

in the 2020 primary with 59% of the vote. He had previously been the runner-up in the 5-way primary race in 2018, receiving 25.5% of the vote while Seigfried won with 28.7%. Lambert won the general election on November 3, 2020, with 67% of the vote over Republican candidate James Haubrich and Libertarian Party candidate Scott Gesty. In 2022, Lambert won the Democratic primary unopposed, going on to defeat his Republican opponent, Shane Stoneman by a near 43-point landslide with 71% of the vote. In 2024, Lambert defeated Republican opponent Shane Stoneman with 70.28% of the vote.

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