| DELAWARE | 3 Electoral Votes |
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Delaware has: 3 counties: New Castle, Sussex, Kent. Government
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State of Delaware Department of Elections Democratic Party of
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Registration Deadline: Oct.
10, 2020. The ACLU of Delaware and the League of Women Voters of Delaware sought unsuccessfully to extend the ballot receipt deadline for mail-in ballots in the Nov. 3, 2020 general election (+). Democratic and Republican voters differed sharply in their preference for in-person or absentee /by mail voting:
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Ballot Access: To qualify for the ballot an unaffiliated candidate for president must submit 7,140 valid signatures by Sept. 1, 2020 (1 percent of the total number of registered voters as of Dec. 31, 2019). > |
Overview: The state has
not gone Republican since George H.W. Bush ran in
1988, and Delawareans supported the home state
candidate by a margin of 95,665 votes (18.98
percentage points). Trump did carry Sussex
County. After the pandemic struck, Biden stayed very close to his mansion in Greenville (suburban Wilmington). He ran what was termed a basement campaign into September, and then started getting out more. The campaign built a TV studio at at the Queen Theater in Wilmington and he did quite a few events there (+) and made more day trips out of state, while almost always overnighting at home. BALLOT [PDF] |
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| Democrats
32 delegates: 14 District, 5 At-Large, 2 PLEO, 11 Unpledged. |
Republicans |
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| 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 |
| Clinton 43.51% |
Clinton 51.82% |
Gore 54.96% |
Kerry 53.33% |
Obama 61.94% |
Obama 58.61% |
Clinton 53.35% |
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Eligible Population*: 693,659. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 63.7%. Registration: Dem. 320,852 (47.49%) Rep. 189,399 (28.03%) Others 165,412 (24.48%) ...Total 675,663 > Registration Deadline: Oct. 15, 2016 (Oct. 24 for uniformed services members and overseas citizens). |
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Overview: Delaware
remained solidly in the blue column, as
Clinton/Kaine carried the state with a margin of
50,476 votes (11.43 percentage points). Clinton
tallied a big margin in New Castle Co. while Trump
carried Sussex and Kent Cos.. Clinton's level
of support, without the boost of Delawarean Biden on
the ticket, was about the same as that achieved by
Kerry in 2004. There were no Fall
campaign visits by the candidates except for Green
Party nominee Jill Stein, who rallied at the
George Wilson Community Center in Newark on Sept.
16. Clinton | Trump BALLOT [PDF] |
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Population*: 660.580. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 62.7%. Registration: Dem. 300,625 (47.41%) Rep. 181,788 (28.73%) Others 150,392 (23.77%) ...Total 632,805 |
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2012 Overview Delaware remained solidly in the blue column. In terms of visits, Vice President Joe Biden frequently comes home to Wilmington, Ann Romney did fundraisers in Greenville on July 18, and Libertarian VP nominee Judge Jim Gray made a couple of stops in Dover on Sept. 18. The Obama ticket achieved a margin of 77,100 votes (18.63 percentage points). Romney did carry Sussex County. Obama | (Romney) BALLOT [PDF] |
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Population*:
622,664. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 66.2%. Registration: Dem. 280,401 (46.52%) Rep. 181,791 (30.16%) Others 140,601 (23.32%) ....Total 602,793 |
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2008 Overview Having the home state Senator on the ticket provided a huge boost to Obama, who won with a margin of 103,073 votes (24.99 percentage points). McCain did carry Sussex County. In terms of events, Biden spoke at the Delaware Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Dover on Oct. 13, and the Bidens did a Change We Need rally at the University of Delaware main campus in Newark on Oct. 31. Note that Democrats' registration advantage increased from 10.95 percentage points for the 2004 general election to 13.03 points at the time of the Feb. 5, 2008 primary to 16.36 points in Nov. 2008. Obama/Allies | McCain/Allies | Nader |
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Population*:
584,817.
VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 64.2%. Registration: Dem. 242,727 (43.80%) Rep. 182,045 (32.85%) Others 129,422 (23.35%) ...Total 554,194 Last day to register to be eligible to vote in the General Election: Oct. 13, 2004 at 4:30 p.m. |
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2004 Overview Kerry-Edwards won Delaware with a margin of 28,351 votes (7.56 percentage points). Kerry prevailed in New Castle County, while Bush won in Sussex and Kent Counties. General Election Details Kerry/Allies | Bush-Cheney '04 |
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November 7, 2000 |
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Voting Eligible
Population*:
554,863. Registration: Dem. 214,515 (42.6%) Rep. 171,447 (34.0%) Others 117,710 (23.4%) ...Total 503,672
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2000
Overview Delaware was talked about as a battleground state, and the campaigns advertised and had staff in the state, but in the end the Gore-Lieberman ticket won with a comfortable margin of 42,780 votes (13.06 percentage points). In one of the most closely fought Senate races in the country, Gov. Thomas R. Carper (D) defeated incumbent Sen. William V. Roth Jr. (R), 55.5% to 43.7%. In the gubernatorial race, Lt. Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D) won by a wide margin over John M. Burris (R) to keep the seat in Democratic hands. General Election Activity |
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