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2024 Delaware Senate election ← 2022 November 5, 2024 2026 → 10 of the 21 seats in the Delaware Senate 11 seats needed for a majority Majority party Minority party Leader David Sokola Gerald Hocker Party Democratic Republican Leader since November 4, 2020 November 7, 2018 Leader's seat 8th - Newark 20th - Ocean View Last election 15 6 Seats won 15 6 Seat change Popular vote 115,338 69,818 ...
The 2024 United States Senate election in Delaware was held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Delaware. Democratic congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester won her first term in office, defeating Republican businessman Eric Hansen.
A table showing the results of popular elections for U.S. senators from Delaware, beginning in 1916 when the Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for the popular election of for U.S. senators, went into effect. Before 1914, they were elected by the Delaware General Assembly. Elections are held the first Tuesday after ...
In the general election, he faced Republican Gregory Lavelle, the Minority Leader of the Delaware House of Representatives. Lavelle had chosen to run for state senate after he and 4 other Republican state representatives were placed in the same district as a result of the 2010 redistricting cycle. [12] Lavelle defeated Katz by a margin of 3.3%. [1]
Like all districts in the state, the 6th Senate district is located entirely within Delaware's at-large congressional district. It overlaps with the 14th, 20th, and 36th districts of the Delaware House of Representatives. [6]
The 2022 Delaware Senate election were held on November 8, 2022, concurrently with the elections for the Delaware House of Representatives, to elect members to the Delaware General Assembly. All of the 21 seats in the Delaware Senate were up for election. The Democratic and Republican primaries were held on September 13, 2022. [1]
Blunt Rochester was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016. During the 2020 presidential election, she was one of Joe Biden's campaign co-chairs. In 2023, Blunt Rochester announced her candidacy to represent Delaware in the United States Senate in the 2024 election and succeed the retiring Carper, who endorsed her in the race.
That’s why a Delaware state senate race in late February got so much national attention. As of May 31, there have been 31 special elections (including primaries that will go to runoffs later this year) for state house and senate or congressional seats since Nov. 9, 2016.