Political party strength in Delaware facts for kids
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Delaware:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Attorney General
- State Treasurer
- State Auditor
- State Insurance Commissioner
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: American (A), Democratic (D), Democratic-Republican (DR), Federalist (F), no party (N), National Republican (NR), Republican (R), and Whig (W).
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| Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Attorney General | Treasurer | Auditor | Comm. of Ins. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | ||
| 1777 | John McKinly (N/F) | no electoral votes | ||||||||||
| Thomas McKean (N/DR) | ||||||||||||
| George Read (N/F) | ||||||||||||
| 1778 | Gunning Bedford, Jr. | |||||||||||
| Caesar Rodney (N/DR) | ||||||||||||
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| John Dickinson (N/F) | ||||||||||||
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| John Cook (N/F) | ||||||||||||
| 1783 | ||||||||||||
| Nicholas Van Dyke (N/DR) | ||||||||||||
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| 1786 | Joshua Clayton (N/F) | |||||||||||
| Thomas Collins (N/F) | ||||||||||||
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| 1789 | George Washington and John Adams (I)  |
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| Jehu Davis (N/F) | ||||||||||||
| Joshua Clayton (N/F) | ||||||||||||
| 1790 | Nicholas Ridgely | |||||||||||
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| 1793 | Joshua Clayton (F) | |||||||||||
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| 1796 | Gunning Bedford, Sr. (F) | John Adams and Charles C. Pinckney (F) |
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| 1797 | F Majority | 14F, 7DR | ||||||||||
| Daniel Rogers (F) | ||||||||||||
| 1798 | F Majority | F Majority | ||||||||||
| 1799 | Richard Bassett (F) | F Majority | F Majority | |||||||||
| 1800 | F Majority | 14F, 7DR | John Adams and Charles C. Pinckney (F)  |
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| 1801 | Nicholas Van Dyke (F) | 6F, 3DR | ||||||||||
| James Sykes (F) | ||||||||||||
| 1802 | David Hall (DR) | |||||||||||
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| 1804 | Charles C. Pinckney and Rufus King (F) |
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| 1805 | Nathaniel Mitchell (F) | |||||||||||
| 1806 | Outerbridge Horsey (F) | |||||||||||
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| 1808 | George Truitt (F) | Henry Molleston (F) | ||||||||||
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| 1810 | Thomas Clayton (F) | |||||||||||
| 1811 | Joseph Haslet (DR) | |||||||||||
| 1812 | DeWitt Clinton and Jared Ingersoll (DR) |
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| 1814 | Daniel Rodney (F) | |||||||||||
| 1815 | James Rogers | |||||||||||
| 1816 | 7F, 2DR | Rufus King and John E. Howard (F) |
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| 1817 | John Clark (F) | |||||||||||
| 1818 | 6F, 3DR | |||||||||||
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| 1820 | Henry Molleston (F) | James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins (DR) |
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| Jacob Stout (F) | ||||||||||||
| 1821 | John Collins (DR) | |||||||||||
| 1822 | 5DR, 4F | 11DR, 10F | ||||||||||
| Caleb Rodney (F) | ||||||||||||
| 1823 | Joseph Haslet (DR) | 5DR, 4F | 13DR, 8F | |||||||||
| Charles Thomas (DR) | ||||||||||||
| 1824 | Samuel Paynter (F) | 5F, 4DR | 14F, 7DR | Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun (DR) |
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| 1825 | 13F, 8DR | |||||||||||
| 1826 | 14DR, 7F | |||||||||||
| 1827 | Charles Polk, Jr. (F) | 5DR, 4F | 13F, 8DR | |||||||||
| 1828 | 5A-J, 3J, 1? | 11A-J, 10J | John Quincy Adams and Richard Rush (NR) |
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| 1829 | 5NR, 4D | 14NR, 7D | ||||||||||
| 1830 | David Hazzard (NR) | Robert Frame | ||||||||||
| 1831 | 7NR, 2D | 16NR, 5D | ||||||||||
| 1832 | 14NR, 7D | Henry Clay and John Sergeant (NR) |
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| 1833 | Caleb P. Bennett (D) | |||||||||||
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| 1835 | James Rogers | 6W, 3D | 14W, 7D | |||||||||
| 1836 | William Henry Harrison and Francis Granger (W) |
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| Charles Polk, Jr. (W) | ||||||||||||
| 1837 | Cornelius P. Comegys (W) | |||||||||||
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| 1839 | 6D, 3W | 13D, 8W | ||||||||||
| 1840 | Edward W. Gilpin | William Henry Harrison and John Tyler (W) |
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| 1841 | William B. Cooper (W) | 5D, 4W | 21W | |||||||||
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| 1843 | 7W, 2D | 14W, 7D | ||||||||||
| 1844 | Henry Clay and Theodore Frelinghuysen (W) |
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| 1845 | Thomas Stockton (W) | 6W, 3D | ||||||||||
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| Joseph Maull (W) | ||||||||||||
| William Temple (W) | ||||||||||||
| 1847 | William Tharp (D) | 5W, 4D | 11W, 10D | |||||||||
| 1848 | Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore (W) |
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| 1849 | 6W, 3D | 13W, 7D, 1? | ||||||||||
| 1850 | Willard Saulsbury, Sr. (D) | |||||||||||
| 1851 | William H. H. Ross (D) | 5D, 4W | 14D, 7W | James A. Bayard, Jr. (D) | ||||||||
| 1852 | Franklin Pierce and William R. King (D) |
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| 1853 | 13W, 8D | |||||||||||
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| 1855 | Peter F. Causey (A) | George P. Fisher (R) | 6A, 2D, 1W | 19A, 2D | ||||||||
| 1856 | James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge (D) |
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| 1857 | 5D, 4O | 21D | ||||||||||
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| 1859 | William Burton (D) | 7D, 2O | 14D, 7O | Willard Saulsbury, Sr. (D) | ||||||||
| 1860 | Alfred Wooten | John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane (Southern Democratic) |
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| 1861 | 5D, 4R | 11R, 10D | ||||||||||
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| 1863 | William Cannon (R) | 14D, 7R | William Temple (D) | |||||||||
| 1864 | Jacob Moore | George R. Riddle (D) | Nathaniel B. Smithers (R) | George B. McClellan and George H. Pendleton (D) |
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| 1865 | 6D, 3R | John A. Nicholson (D) | ||||||||||
| Gove Saulsbury (D) | ||||||||||||
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| 1867 | 15D, 6R | James A. Bayard, Jr. (D) | ||||||||||
| 1868 | Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair, Jr. (D) |
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| 1869 | Charles B. Lore (D) | 9D | 21D | Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. (D) | Benjamin T. Biggs (D) | |||||||
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| 1871 | James Ponder (D) | Eli M. Saulsbury (D) | ||||||||||
| 1872 | Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson (R) |
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| 1873 | 8D, 1R | James R. Lofland (R) | ||||||||||
| 1874 | John B. Penington (D) | |||||||||||
| 1875 | John P. Cochran (D) | James Williams (D) | ||||||||||
| 1876 | Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks (D) |
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| 1877 | 9D | |||||||||||
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| 1879 | John W. Hall (D) | George Gray (D) | Edward L. Martin (D) | |||||||||
| 1880 | Winfield S. Hancock and William H. English (D) |
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| 1881 | 8D, 1R | 14D, 7R | ||||||||||
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| 1883 | Charles C. Stockley (D) | 7D, 2R | 21D | Charles B. Lore (D) | ||||||||
| 1884 | Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks (D) |
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| 1885 | John H. Paynter | 9D | George Gray (D) | |||||||||
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| 1887 | Benjamin T. Biggs (D) | John Biggs | John B. Penington (D) | |||||||||
| 1888 | Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman (D) |
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| 1889 | 5R, 4D | 14R, 7D | Anthony Higgins (R) | |||||||||
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| 1891 | Robert J. Reynolds (D) | 7D, 2R | John W. Causey (D) | |||||||||
| 1892 | John R. Nicholson | Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson (D) |
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| 1893 | 5D, 4R | 21D | ||||||||||
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| 1895 | Joshua H. Marvil (R) | Robert C. White | 15R, 6D | Vacant | Jonathan S. Willis (R) | |||||||
| William T. Watson (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1896 | William McKinley and Garret Hobart (R) |
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| 1897 | Ebe W. Tunnell (D) | 20D, 1R | Richard R. Kenney (D) | L. Irving Handy (D) | ||||||||
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| 1899 | L. Heisler Ball (R) | John A. Lingo | 9D, 8R | 22R, 13D | Vacant | John H. Hoffecker (R) | ||||||
| 1900 | William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (R) |
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| 1901 | John Hunn (R) | Philip L. Cannon (R) | Herbert H. Ward | 9R, 8D | 20R, 15D | Vacant | L. Heisler Ball (R) | |||||
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| 1903 | 10R, 7D | L. Heisler Ball (R) | J. Frank Allee (R) | Henry A. Houston (D) | ||||||||
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) |
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| 1905 | Preston Lea (R) | Isaac T. Parker (R) | Robert H. Richards | 21R, 14D | Vacant | Hiram R. Burton (R) | ||||||
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| 1907 | 11R, 6D | 25R, 10D | Henry A. du Pont (R) | Harry A. Richardson (R) | ||||||||
| 1908 | William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman (R) |
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| 1909 | Simeon S. Pennewill (R) | John M. Mendinhall (R) | Andrew C. Gray | 18D, 17R | William H. Heald (R) | |||||||
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| 1911 | 9R, 8D | 22R, 13D | ||||||||||
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) |
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| 1913 | Charles R. Miller (R) | Colen Ferguson (D) | Josiah O. Wolcott (D) | 21D, 14R | Willard Saulsbury, Jr. (D) | Franklin Brockson (D) | ||||||
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| 1915 | 19R, 16D | Thomas W. Miller (R) | ||||||||||
| 1916 | Charles E. Hughes and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) |
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| 1917 | John G. Townsend, Jr. (R) | Lewis T. Eliason (D) | David J. Reinhardt | 10R, 7D | 19D, 16R | Josiah O. Wolcott (D) | Albert F. Polk (D) | |||||
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| 1919 | 23R, 12D | L. Heisler Ball (R) | Caleb R. Layton (R) | |||||||||
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) |
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| 1921 | William D. Denney (R) | J. Danforth Bush (R) | Sylvester D. Townsend, Jr. | 12R, 5D | 18D, 17R | T. Coleman du Pont (R) | ||||||
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| 1923 | 11R, 6D | Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. (D) | William H. Boyce (D) | |||||||||
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes (R) |
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| 1925 | Robert P. Robinson (R) | James H. Anderson (R) | Clarence A. Southerland | 9D, 8R | 22R, 13D | T. Coleman du Pont (R) | Robert G. Houston (R) | |||||
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| 1927 | Jesse Sherwood Cooper, Jr. (D) | 18R, 17D | ||||||||||
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) |
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| 1929 | C. Douglass Buck (R) | James H. Hazel (R) | Reuben Satterthwaite, Jr. | George S. Williams (R) | 9R, 8D | 26R, 9D | John G. Townsend, Jr. (R) | Daniel O. Hastings (R) | ||||
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| 1931 | 12R, 5D | 22R, 13D | ||||||||||
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) |
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| 1933 | Roy F. Corley (R) | Daniel J. Layton (R) | 9R, 8D | 22D, 13R | Wilbur L. Adams (D) | |||||||
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| 1935 | 10R, 7D | 23R, 12D | J. George Stewart (R) | |||||||||
| 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) |
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| 1937 | Richard C. McMullen (D) | Edward W. Cooch (D) | 11R, 6D | 21D, 14R | James H. Hughes (D) | William F. Allen (D) | ||||||
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| 1939 | James R. Morford | 20R, 15D | George S. Williams (R) | |||||||||
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace (D) |
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| 1941 | Walter W. Bacon (R) | Isaac J. MacCollum (D) | 10R, 7D | James M. Tunnell (D) | Philip A. Traynor (D) | |||||||
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| 1943 | Clair J. Killoran | 24R, 11D | C. Douglass Buck (R) | Earle D. Willey (R) | ||||||||
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (D) |
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| 1945 | Elbert N. Carvel (D) | Jesse Sherwood Cooper, Jr. (D) | 11R, 6D | 22R, 13D | Philip A. Traynor (D) | |||||||
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| 1947 | Albert W. James | 24R, 11D | John J. Williams (R) | J. Caleb Boggs (R) | ||||||||
| 1948 | Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren (R) |
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| 1949 | Elbert N. Carvel (D) | Alexis I. du Pont Bayard (D) | 9R, 8D | 18R, 17D | J. Allen Frear, Jr. (D) | |||||||
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| 1951 | H. Albert Young | 9D, 8R | 19R, 16D | |||||||||
| 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) |
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| 1953 | J. Caleb Boggs (R) | John W. Rollins (R) | 10R, 7D | 18R, 17D | Herbert B. Warburton (R) | |||||||
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| 1955 | Joseph D. Craven | Clifford E. Hall (D) | 12D, 5R | 27D, 8R | Harris B. McDowell, Jr. (D) | |||||||
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| 1957 | David P. Buckson (R) | 13D, 4R | 19D, 16R | Harry G. Haskell, Jr. (R) | ||||||||
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| 1959 | Januar D. Bove, Jr. | 11D, 6R | 26D, 9R | Harris B. McDowell, Jr. (D) | ||||||||
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| David P. Buckson (R) | vacant | John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson (D) |
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| 1961 | Elbert N. Carvel (D) | Eugene Lammot (D) | 20D, 15R | J. Caleb Boggs (R) | ||||||||
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| 1963 | David P. Buckson (R) | 10D, 7R | 24D, 11R | |||||||||
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) |
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| 1965 | Charles L. Terry, Jr. (D) | Sherman W. Tribbitt (D) | 13D, 5R | 30D, 5R | ||||||||
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| 1967 | Daniel Ross (R) | George W. Cripps (R) | 9R, 9D | 23R, 12D | William V. Roth, Jr. (R) | |||||||
| 1968 | Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) |
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| 1969 | Russell W. Peterson (R) | Eugene Bookhammer (R) | 13R, 6D | 26R, 13D | ||||||||
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| 1971 | W. Laird Stabler, Jr. (R) | Emily Womach (D) | Robert Short (R) | 23R, 16D | William V. Roth, Jr. (R) | Pierre S. du Pont IV (R) | ||||||
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| 1973 | Sherman W. Tribbitt (D) | Mary Jornlin (R) | F. Earl McGinnes (D) | 11R, 10D | 21R, 20D | Joe Biden (D) | ||||||
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| 1975 | Richard R. Wier, Jr. (D) | Richard T. Collins (R) | 13D, 8R | 25D, 16R | ||||||||
| 1976 | Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale (D) |
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| 1977 | Pierre S. du Pont, IV (R) | James D. McGinnis (D) | Thomas R. Carper (D) | David H. Elliott (R) | 26D, 15R | Thomas B. Evans, Jr. (R) | ||||||
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| 1979 | Richard S. Gebelein (R) | 21D, 20R | ||||||||||
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush (R) |
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| 1981 | Michael N. Castle (R) | Thomas W. Spruance (R) | 12D, 9R | 25R, 16D | ||||||||
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| 1983 | Charles M. Oberly, III (D) | Janet C. Rzewnicki (R) | Dennis E. Greenhouse (D) | 13D, 8R | 25D, 16R | Tom Carper (D) | ||||||
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| 1985 | Michael N. Castle | Shien Biau Woo (D) | David N. Levinson (D) | 22R, 19D | ||||||||
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| 1988 | George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) |
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| 1989 | Dale E. Wolf (R) | |||||||||||
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| 1991 | 15D, 6R | 24R, 17D | ||||||||||
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| Dale E. Wolf (R) | vacant | Bill Clinton and Al Gore (D) |
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| 1993 | Tom Carper (D) | Ruth Ann Minner (D) | Donna Lee Williams (R) | 22R, 19D | Michael N. Castle (R) | |||||||
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| 1995 | M. Jane Brady (R) | 12D, 9R | 27R, 14D | |||||||||
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| 1997 | 12D, 9R | 23R, 18D | ||||||||||
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| 1999 | Jack Markell (D) | 13D, 8R | 26R, 15D | |||||||||
| 2000 | Al Gore and Joe Lieberman (D) |
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| 2001 | Ruth Ann Minner (D) | John Carney (D) | Tom Carper (D) | |||||||||
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| 2003 | 29R, 12D | |||||||||||
| 2004 | John Kerry and John Edwards (D) |
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| 2005 | Carl Danberg (D) | Matthew Denn (D) | 26R, 15D | |||||||||
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| 2007 | Beau Biden (D) | 23R, 18D | ||||||||||
| 2008 | Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D) |
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| 2009 | Jack Markell (D) | Matthew Denn (D) | Velda Jones-Potter (D) | Karen Weldin Stewart (D) | 16D, 5R | 24D, 17R | Ted Kaufman (D) | |||||
| 2010 | 15D, 6R | Chris Coons (D) | ||||||||||
| 2011 | Chip Flowers (D) | 14D, 7R | 26D, 15R | John Carney (D) | ||||||||
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| 2013 | 13D, 8R | 27D, 14R | ||||||||||
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| 2015 | vacant | Matthew Denn (D) | Ken Simpler (R) | 12D, 9R | 25D, 16R | |||||||
| 2016 | Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine (D) |
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| 2017 | John Carney (D) | Bethany Hall-Long (D) | Trinidad Navarro (D) | 11D, 10R | Lisa Blunt Rochester (D) | |||||||
| Year | Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Attorney General | Treasurer | Auditor | Comm. of Ins. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
| Executive offices | General Assembly | United States Congress | ||||||||||
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