Delaware

DELAWARE

3 Electoral Votes

Population
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau)

Total Population, July 1, 2007 est.	864,764
Total Registration, Feb. 1, 2008	568,653

Dem. 253,157 (%) Rep. 179,084 (%) Others 136,412 (%)
Delaware has: 3 counties: New Castle, Sussex, Kent.

Government
Governor: Ruth Ann Minner (D) elected in 2000, re-elected in 2004; term-limited in 2008.
State Legislature: Delaware General Assembly House: 41 seats Senate 21 seats.
Local: Cities and Towns New Castle, Sussex, Kent NACO Counties
U.S. House: 1R - At-Large...Michael N. Castle (R).
U.S. Senate: Joseph R. Biden (D) up for re-election in 2008, Thomas R. Carper (D) re-elected in 2006.

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Presidential Primary Election -- Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Democrats
23 Delegates (15 Pledged, 8 Unpledged) and 4 Alternates.
0.57% of the 4,049 Delegate Votes.

Clinton | Obama
former: Biden - The senior U.S Senator from Delaware was a candidate for president but ended his campaign following the Iowa caucuses. >

Official Results

Joe Biden
2,863

2.97%

Hillary Clinton
40,760

42.29%

Chris Dodd
170

0.18%

John Edwards
1,241

1.29%

Dennis Kucinich
192

0.20%

+Barack Obama
51,148

53.07%

Total
96,374

Republicans
18 Delegates: 3 RNC; 12 at-large; 3 by CD (3 x 1).
0.76% of the 2,380 Delegates.

Delegate allocation is statewide winner-take-all.

Huckabee | McCain | Romney
former: Giuliani

Official Results

Rudy Giuliani
1,255

2.50%

Mike Huckabee
7,706

15.34%

+John McCain
22,628

45.04%

Ron Paul
2,131

4.24%

Mitt Romney
16,344

32.53%

Tom Tancredo
175

0.35%

Total
50,239

General Election -- Tuesday, November 2, 2004

Last day to register to be eligible to vote in the General Election: October 13, 2004 at 4:30 p.m.

+Kerry/Edwards (Dem.)	199,904	(53.33)
Bush/Cheney (Rep.)	171,553	(45.77)
Peroutka/Baldwin (Const.)	292	(0.08)
Cobb/LaMarche (Grn.)	250	(0.07)
Nader/Camejo (Ind.DE)	2,152	(0.57)
Badnarik/Campagna (Lib.)	585	(0.16)
Brown/Hebert (NLP)	100	(0.03)
Total........374,836

2004 Overview
Kerry-Edwards won Delaware with a plurality 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

[State Primary Election: September 11, 2004]

Past Results

1996

Clinton (Dem.)........140,355	(51.82)
Dole (Rep.)..............99,062	(36.58)
Perot (Ind.)..............28,719	(10.60)
Others (3+w/ins)........2,709	(1.00)
Total........270,845

1992

Clinton (Dem.)........126,054
(43.51)

Bush (Rep.)............102,313
(35.31)

Perot (Unaff.)............59,213
(20.44)

Others (2+w/ins).........2,155
(0.74)

Total........289,735

2000

+Gore/Lieberman (Dem.)	180,068	(54.96)
Bush/Cheney (Rep.)	137,288	(41.90)
Phillips/Frazier (Const.)	208	(0.06)
Nader/LaDuke (Grn.)	8,307	(2.54)
Browne/Olivier (Lib.)	774	(0.24)
Hagelin/Goldhaber (NLP)	107	(0.03)
Buchanan/Foster (Ref.)	777	(0.24)
Write In	92	(0.03)
Total........327,621

Total Registration: 503,672
Dem. 214,515 (42.6%) Rep. 171,447 (34.0%) Others 117,710 (23.4%)

Turnout as a percentage of voting age population was 56.28%. (U.S. avg: 53.76%).

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 plurality 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

Democratic Primary -- February 3, 2004

On April 3, 2003 the Delaware State Senate voted 19-1 to approve Senate Bill No. 54, legislation to move the presidential primary from the Saturday following the New Hampshire primary to the first Tuesday in February in an effort to "stimulate candidate and voter participation." On June 25, the House approved the measure by a vote of 40 to 0, and the Governor signed it into law on June 30. Rules governing primary elections are set out in Title 15, Chapter 31 of the Delaware Code.

CLARK DEAN EDWARDS KERRY KUCINICH LIEBERMAN SHARPTON former GEPHARDT

ballot

^{Statewide
voter turnout: 15%}

official results
305 of 305 districts reporting.

	Total Vote	Percent
Wesley K. Clark	3,165	9.5%
Howard Dean	3,462	10.4%
John Edwards	3,674	11.0%
Richard Gephardt w	187	0.6%
+John F. Kerry	16,787	50.4%
Dennis J. Kucinich	344	1.0%
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.	78	0.2%
Joseph Lieberman	3,706	11.1%
Alfred Sharpton	1,888	5.8%
Total	33,291	>

23 Delegates (Pledged 15, Unpledged 8) and 4 Alternates.

Republicans
State Convention: May 13-14, 2004. 18 Delegates and 15 Alternates.