United States House of Representatives election in Delaware, 2010

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United States House of Representatives election in Delaware, 2010
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Nominee John Carney Glen Urquhart
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote173,543125,442
Percentage56.78%41.04%
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County Results
  Carney—60-70%
  Urquhart—50-60%
U.S. Representative before election

Mike Castle
Republican

Elected U.S. Representative

John Carney
Democratic

The 2010 United States House of Representatives election in Delaware was held on November 2, 2010 to determine who would represent the state of Delaware in the United States House of Representatives for the 112th United States Congress. Democratic nominee former Lieutenant Governor, John Carney defeated Republican nominee, Glen Urquhart. [1]

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Delaware State of the United States of America

Delaware is one of the 50 states of the United States, in the South-Atlantic or Southern region. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, north by Pennsylvania, and east by New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean. The state takes its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virginia's first colonial governor.

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Contents

Overview

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Map of Delaware's at-large congressional district

The state of Delaware is completely contained in a single at-large district. The district has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D+7. [2] Since 1993, the district had been represented by Republican Michael Castle.

Cook Partisan Voting Index

The Cook Partisan Voting Index, often abbreviated as CPVI or simply PVI, is a measurement of how strongly a United States congressional district or state leans toward the Democratic or Republican Party, compared to the nation as a whole. The index is updated after each election cycle. The Cook Political Report introduced the PVI in August 1997 to better gauge the competitiveness of each district using the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections as a baseline. The index is based on analysis by the Center for Voting and Democracy for its July 1997 Monopoly Politics report.

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Castle announced in 2009 he would run for the United States Senate seat [3] held by Ted Kaufman (D) who had been appointed to the seat when his predecessor, Joe Biden (D), resigned to become Vice President. Castle was defeated by Christine O'Donnell in the Delaware Republican Senate primary.

Ted Kaufman American politician

Edward E. "Ted" Kaufman is an American politician and former businessman who served as a United States Senator from Delaware from 2009 to 2010. From 2010 until 2011, he chaired the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program; he was the final person to have held that post, succeeding inaugural holder Elizabeth Warren. He is a member of the Democratic Party who previously served on the staff of the United States Senate.

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Democratic primary

Candidates

John Carney (politician) American politician

John Charles Carney Jr. is an American politician who is the 74th Governor of Delaware, serving since January 2017. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and served as the U.S. Representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district from 2011 to 2017 prior to his governorship. Carney was also the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware from 2001 to 2009 and served as Delaware's Secretary of Finance. He first unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Governor of Delaware in 2008, losing to Jack Markell. He ran for Governor of Delaware again in 2016 and won to succeed Markell, who was term-limited.

Lieutenant Governor of Delaware

The Lieutenant Governor of Delaware is the second ranking executive officer of the U.S. state of Delaware. Lieutenant governors are elected for a term of four years in the same general election as the U.S. President and take office the following January.

Results

Carney announced his candidacy on April 15, 2009 and was unopposed in the primary after Scott Spencer, a transportation consultant, dropped out. [4] [5]

Republican primary

Candidates

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Results

Republican primary results [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Glen Urquhart27,34348.64
Republican Michele Rollins26,78947.66
Republican Rose Izzo2,0823.70
Total votes56,214100.00

Campaign

According to a September 2010 poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind, "likely voters in Delaware split 45%-40% on whether they prefer[ed] to have the U.S. Congress controlled by the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, suggesting that the First State's open congressional seat might be hotly contested," yet in the same poll, Carney led Urquhart by 51%-36%. [7] Peter Woolley, the poll director, remarked that "candidates matter, not just parties" and that in Delaware candidates matter "more than in most states." [7]

General election polling

Poll SourceDates administeredGlen Urquhart (R)John Carney (D)
Monmouth University October 25–27, 201044%51%
Fairleigh Dickinson October 20–26, 201036%53%
Monmouth University October 8–11, 201044%53%
Fairleigh Dickinson September 27-October 3, 201036%51%
University of Delaware September 16–30, 201031%48%
Wilson Research Strategies September 27–28, 201041%45%
Grove Insight September 15–18, 201032%50%
Public Policy Polling September 11–12, 201037%48%
Public Policy Polling August 7–8, 201030%48%

General election

Results

Delaware's At-large congressional district election, 2010 [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic John Carney 173,54356.78
Republican Glen Urquhart125,44241.04
Delaware Independent Earl R. Lofland3,7041.21
Libertarian Brent A. Wangen1,9860.65
Blue Enigma Jeffrey Brown9610.31
Total votes305,636100.00
Democratic gain from Republican

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References

  1. ↑ Elections 2010:Delaware
  2. ↑ "Cook Political Report, PVI for the 110th Congress" (PDF). Cook Political Report. June 20, 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 26, 2008. Retrieved February 15, 2009.
  3. ↑ Josh Kraushaar (October 6, 2009). "Castle running for the Senate". Politico. Retrieved October 7, 2009.
  4. ↑ "Delaware Con Carney - Hotline On Call". Hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com. Retrieved July 28, 2009.
  5. ↑ "Courierpostonline - Transportation consultant plans congressional bid". Content.usatoday.net. March 30, 2009. Retrieved July 28, 2009.
  6. ↑ http://elections.delaware.gov/archive/elect10/elect10_Primary/html/election.shtml
  7. 1 2 "Delaware Republicans Losing House Seat," FDU PublicMind, Oct. 5, 2010. Retrieved 2/24/11.
  8. ↑ http://elections.delaware.gov/archive/elect10/elect10_General/html/election.shtml
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