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2012 Delaware Elections
Delaware's 2012 general elections were held on November 6, 2012. Primary elections were held on September 11, 2012. Federal President Senate Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Tom Carper, who has held the position since 2001, is running for re-election. Keith Spanarelli, a businessman, is challenging Carper in the Democratic primary. Kevin L. Wade, Kevin Wade, a businessman, is seeking the Republican nomination. Andrew Groff, a businessman, is running as the nominee of the Green Party of the United States, Green Party. Groff has also been endorsed by the Libertarian Party (United States), Libertarian Party. Alex Pires, a businessman and attorney, is running as the nominee of the Independent Party of Delaware. House of Representatives Incumbent Democratic U.S. Representative John C. Carney, Jr., John Carney, who has held the position since 2011, is running for re-election. Rose Izzo, a housewife and unsuccessful Republican primary candidate for the seat in United States ...
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Tom Kovach
Thomas H. Kovach (born May 27, 1969) is an American attorney and politician who served in the Delaware House of Representatives from 2009 to 2011 and as the president of the New Castle County Council from 2011 to 2012. A Republican, he ran for the United States House of Representatives seat for Delaware's at-large congressional district in 2012, and lost to incumbent John Carney. Early life and education Kovach was born in Woodbury, New Jersey, but grew up in northern Delaware, where he became an Eagle Scout. He earned undergraduate degrees in chemical engineering and psychology from the University of Delaware in 1992, and went to work for the Environmental Protection Agency as an enforcement officer before receiving a J.D. degree from Rutgers Law School five years later. He was a member of the Aspen-Rodel Fellowship in Public Leadership. Career Kovach practiced environmental law and commercial litigation prior to seeking elected office. State representative Immediately ...
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Delaware House Of Representatives
The Delaware State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Delaware General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Delaware. It is composed of 41 Representatives from an equal number of constituencies, each of whom is elected to a two-year term. Its members are not subject to term limits, and their terms start the day after the election. The House meets at the Delaware Legislative Hall in Dover. Name From 1776 to 1792, the chamber was known as the House of Assembly, a common name for lower houses of colonial legislatures and states under the Confederation. The name was changed by Delaware's 1792 Constitution, reflecting the new federal House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entities. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often .... This change on the part of Delaware init ...
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Delaware Senate
The Delaware State Senate is the upper house of the Delaware General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Delaware. It is composed of 21 Senators, each of whom is elected to a four-year term, except when reapportionment occurs, at which time Senators may be elected to a two-year term. There is no limit to the number of terms that a Senator may serve. The Delaware Senate meets at the Legislative Hall in Dover Dover ( ) is a town and major ferry port in Kent, southeast England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel at from Cap Gris Nez in France. It lies southeast of Canterbury and east of Maidstone. .... In order to accommodate the ten-year cycle of reapportionment, the terms of office of the several Senators are staggered so that ten Senators are elected to terms of two years at the first biennial general election following reapportionment, followed by two four-year terms, and eleven Senators are elected ...
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Delaware Democratic Party
The Delaware Democratic Party (DelDems) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Delaware. It is headquartered in New Castle County, Delaware, New Castle County and chaired by Erik Raser-Schramm. The party is the dominant political party in Delaware and has existed since the Jacksonian Democrats broke away from the Federalists in 1825. Former U.S. President Joe Biden is a Delaware Democrat, having served as a U.S. Senator from the state from 1973 to 2009, when he was inaugurated as vice president. The party also occupies all seats for the state in Congress, all statewide executive offices, and majorities in both houses of the state legislature. Historically a more Factions in the Democratic Party (United States)#Moderates, centrist affiliate of the Democratic Party, the state party has recently become more Progressivism in the United States, progressive due to the movement's recent electoral successes against the centrist wing ...
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United States House Of Representatives Election In Delaware, 2006
The 2006 United States House of Representatives election in Delaware was held on November 7, 2006. Incumbent Republican U.S. Representative Mike Castle won re-election to a seventh term. Democratic primary Candidates *Karen M. Hartley-Nagle, non-profit organization director *Dennis Spivack, attorney Republican primary * Michael N. Castle, incumbent U.S. Congressman Congressman Castle faced no opposition in the Republican Party primary. Green Party * Michael Berg, retired teacher and anti-war activist Independent *Karen M. Hartley-Nagle, formerly of the Democratic Party General election Results References {{2006 United States elections Delaware 2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ... 2006 Delaware elections ...
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Karen Weldin Stewart
Karen Weldin Stewart is an American politician. She served as the Delaware Insurance Commissioner from 2009 to 2017. Weldin Stewart unsuccessfully ran for state insurance commissioner in 2000 general election and again in the 2004 Democratic primary. In 2008, insurance commissioner Matthew Denn decided to run for Lieutenant Governor of Delaware rather than reelection to his office, and Weldin Stewart won the three-way primary election to replace him as the Democratic nominee. In the general election, Weldin Stewart was elected to office with 57 percent of the vote over Republican John Brady. She was reelected in 2012. In 2016, Weldin Stewart ran for reelection but was defeated in the Democratic primary by Trinidad Navarro. Electoral history *In 2000, Weldin Stewart was defeated in the general election for insurance commission by incumbent Republican Donna Williams. *In 2004, Weldin Stewart was defeated in the Democratic primary election by Matthew Denn. *In 2008, Weldin Stewar ...
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2012 Delaware Insurance Commissioner Election Results Map By County
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Sher Valenzuela
Cheryl "Sher" Valenzuela is an American small-business owner and politician. She was the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Delaware in 2012 and unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for State Treasurer of Delaware in 2014. Background Valenzuela married her husband Eli and moved to Delaware in the early 1990s to care for her aging mother in neighboring New Jersey. She is a mother of three sons in a blended family, with Ian from her previous marriage, Simon from her current husband, and Pedro whom they adopted. Her second son, Simon, was diagnosed as autistic and Valenzuela describes the fight to overcome the negative prognosis as one of the reasons she would start her small business. She and her husband are the vice president and president, respectively, of their own small business, First State Manufacturing, an industrial upholstery company based in Milford, Delaware. For her efforts and contributions to the Delaware economy, Valenzuela was award ...
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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. As in many other U.S. State legislature (United States), state legislatures, the lieutenant governor also serves as the President of the Delaware Senate, though they can only cast a vote in the event of a tie. The Office of Lieutenant Governor was created by the Constitution of Delaware, and the first election took place in 1900. Although in practice the candidate for lieutenant governor is nominated as a ticket with the candidate for governor, the offices of governor and lieutenant governor are voted on separately in Delaware. In 1972, 1976, and 1984, the governor and lieutenant governor were elected from different parties. Kyle Evans Gay is the current lieutenant governor, having taken office January 21, 2025. The offices of ...
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Matthew P
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Jack Markell
Jack Alan Markell (born November 26, 1960) is an American politician and diplomat. He had served the United States ambassador both to Italy and to San Marino. He had served as the United States ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. He previously served as the 73rd governor of Delaware from 2009 to 2017. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Markell served three terms as the state treasurer of Delaware from 1999 to 2009. After term-limited Governor Ruth Ann Minner was prevented from running for reelection, Markell announced his intention to run. He defeated lieutenant governor of Delaware John Carney with 51% of the vote in the Democratic primary, and defeated the Republican nominee, former Delaware Superior Court judge Bill Lee, with 67% of the vote in the 2008 general election, becoming Delaware's first Jewish governor. Markell won reelection in 2012 by a margin of over 40%. On May 12, 2023, President Joe Biden nominated Markell to ...
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