Delaware Election Results

— -- Voters in the state of Delaware are heading to the polls on Election Day 2016.

There are three electoral votes at stake in Delaware in the presidential race. Delaware’s electorate voted for every winning president from 1952 to 1996, holding the longest streak of any other state. This ended in 2000 as the state started leaning more Democratic than the national average.

Delaware is known as the “First State” because it was the first of the 13 states to join the Union, which ratified the Constitution in December 1787. Delaware has been unusually affluent. It had the country’s highest income levels during the twentieth century.

Voting History in the Past Five Presidential Elections:

• 2012: Barack Obama
• 2008: Barack Obama
• 2004: John Kerry
• 2000: Al Gore
• 1996: Bill Clinton

Other Notable Races:

Voters will elect a new congressional representative and a new governor. Democratic U.S. Rep. John Carney Jr. is making a second run for governor against Republican state Sen. Colin Bonini. Democrat Lisa Blunt Rochester and Republican Hans Reigle are vying for the state's lone U.S. House seat. -The Associated Press

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