DELAWARE 3 Electoral Votes
Population 
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau)
Total Population, July 1, 2003 est. 817,491
Total Registration, Oct. 2004  554,194
Dem. 242,727 (43.80%)   Rep. 182,045 (32.85%)   Others 129,422 (23.35%)
Delaware has: 3 counties: New Castle, Sussex, Kent.

Government 
Governor: Ruth Ann Minner (D) elected in 2000, re-elected in 2004.
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) re-elected in 2002, Thomas R. Carper (D) elected in 2000
In the closely fought gubernatorial race Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D) was re-elected to a second term, defeating Republican William Swain Lee by a margin of 50.9% to 45.8%; Independent Party/Libertarian candidate Frank Infante garnered 3.3%.  In the General Assembly, Democrats picked up three seats in the House, cutting their deficit from 29R to 12D to 26R to 15D; in the Senate, with 10 seats up, the balance remained at 13D to 8R.

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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
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23 Delegates (Pledged 15, Unpledged 8) and 4 Alternates.
Republicans
State Convention: May 13-14, 2004. 18 Delegates and 15 Alternates.
 

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