The Other Results
Everyone was focused on the Senate & House primaries last night but there were other offices being contested. Here are the results:
STATE TREASURER
323 of 323 Districts Reported
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
CHIP FLOWERS JR. 18406 435 18841 54 . 3 %
VELDA JONES-POTTER 15393 487 15880 45 . 7 %
AUDITOR OF ACCOUNTS
323 of 323 Districts Reported
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
RICHARD KORN 17167 472 17639 53 . 9 %
KENNETH A. MATLUSKY 14692 405 15097 46 . 1 %
STATE SENATOR DISTRICT 19
16 of 16 Districts Reported
REPUBLICAN PARTY
ERIC R. BODENWEISER 1957 80 2037 48 . 6 %
* JOSEPH W. BOOTH 2062 95 2157 51 . 4 %
STATE SENATOR DISTRICT 20
16 of 16 Districts Reported
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
* GEORGE H. BUNTING JR. 1815 43 1858 78 . 8 %
PERRY J. MITCHELL 484 15 499 21 . 2 %
STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 2
10 of 10 Districts Reported
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
STEPHANIE T. BOLDEN 652 24 676 51 . 2 %
HAZEL D. PLANT 630 15 645 48 . 8 %
STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 3
7 of 7 Districts Reported
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
ROBERT BOVELL 583 7 590 44 . 5 %
HELENE M. KEELEY 707 29 736 55 . 5 %
STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 8
9 of 9 Districts Reported
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
S. QUINTON JOHNSON 778 13 791 68 . 7 %
VALERIE V. JONES-RABB 358 3 361 31 . 3 %
STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 9
10 of 10 Districts Reported
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
RICHARD H. GRIFFITHS 255 3 258 21 . 0 %
REBECCA WALKER 961 9 970 79 . 0 %
REPUBLICAN PARTY
JOHN MARINO 1514 8 1522 75 . 5 %
ANTHONY MIRTO 486 7 493 24 . 5 %
STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 10
9 of 9 Districts Reported
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
KENNETH DARGIS 274 6 280 27 . 8 %
DENNIS E. WILLIAMS 718 9 727 72 . 2 %
STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 24
6 of 6 Districts Reported
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
KAY WILDE GALLOGLY 235 4 239 29 . 1 %
EDWARD S. OSIENSKI 579 2 581 70 . 9 %
STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 27
6 of 6 Districts Reported
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
EARL G. JAQUES JR. 769 12 781 64 . 3 %
JAMES MARAVELIAS 429 5 434 35 . 7 %
STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 29
7 of 7 Districts Reported
REPUBLICAN PARTY
GEORGE A. PHILLIPS 427 23 450 28 . 0 %
LINCOLN D. WILLIS 1114 42 1156 72 . 0 %
STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 31
7 of 7 Districts Reported
REPUBLICAN PARTY
RONALD POLIQUIN 497 38 535 49 . 4 %
RONALD SMITH 504 45 549 50 . 6 %
STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 33
8 of 8 Districts Reported
REPUBLICAN PARTY
HAROLD J. PETERMAN 1069 33 1102 56 . 3 %
STEVEN RUST 829 26 855 43 . 7 %
COUNTY COUNCIL DISTRICT 3
20 of 20 Districts Reported
REPUBLICAN PARTY
JANET KILPATRICK 2641 51 2692 51 . 7 %
MICHAEL D. PROTACK 2470 49 2519 48 . 3 %
SHERIFF
212 of 212 Districts Reported
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
TRINIDAD NAVARRO 14732 300 15032 63 . 3 %
MICHAEL P. WALSH 8504 206 8710 36 . 7 %
REPUBLICAN PARTY
WILLIAM HART 14134 243 14377 56 . 4 %
JOSEPH O’LEARY 10905 200 11105 43 . 6 %
RECORDER OF DEEDS
63 of 63 Districts Reported
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
JOHN F. BRADY 3674 111 3785 56 . 0 %
ALMA C. ROACH 2852 127 2979 44 . 0 %
What surprises do you see? I see a few mild upsets – Flowers over Jones-Potter (surprisingly high margin), Navarro over Walsh (a blowout) and Bolden over Plant. There were a few close calls as well – Korn-Matlusky, Booth-Bodenweiser & Kilpatrick-Protack. The labor-backed challengers also did quite well in the open seat races – Rebecca Walker in RD9 and Ed Osienski in RD24. Maravelias did not prevail over incumbent Jaques in RD27, however.
Tags: 2010 Elections, Delaware, Primaries
From TNJ: Bodenweiser attributed his loss to the will of God.
“I think God was honored in this entire campaign and he has authority as to who is the leader and who isn’t the leader, and now we know his will,” Bodenweiser said.
Yup.
Also, it’s official: No one wants Protack to win. Anything.
I bet he runs for governor in 2012.
Congratulations to Chip Flowers. He ran a great campaign and will be a great Treasurer.
LOL. Protack finally follows my advice to run for something local, and then his female counterpart (O’Whackado) wins and he still loses.
Sorry Pornstache.
I have news for St. Bodie Girl: God could care less about who wins the 19th Senate District in Delaware. I mean, really. God has much more important things to do and care about. Further, I hate to burst Joe Booth’s ego here, but the Senator of the 19th District is the “leader” of nothing, unless of course Joe Booth is chosen Senate minority leader, and then I will take that back.
There were a few close calls as well – Korn-Matlusky, Booth-Bodenweiser & Kilpatrick-Protack.
You overlooked the primary of the Ron’s (Smith/Poliquin) in that comment. It was a razor-thin margin of 14 votes. Ouch.
Poliquin probably would have won if most of his followers weren’t glued to that 24-hour wrestling channel.
Keeley’s margin was way too close for her liking. Maybe they can gerrymander the hopeless Gerald Brady out of his seat, give much of the Wilmington portion of his district to Keeley, and restore one more minority-majority district to the city. Which is how it should’ve been 10 years ago.
Was surprised that Bolden won. I will leave it to Cass to dissect that race.
Was really surprised at the margin in the sheriff’s race. Thought Navarro would win, but didn’t think it’d be a blowout.
Finally, I figured that the Castle race would be close, and that the Rollins race wouldn’t be. Since I was wrong, I’ve been trying to figure it out. I think that people who came out to vote for Christine came out to vote for Christine. Period.
Talk about something not auguring well for the Rethugs in the fall. Even Wagner could be at risk. The base of the party is (to put it mildly) discouraged, and the whack jobs only have eyes for Christine.
Recount!!! I would hate to see this picture never used again:
Thank you, Jason. But we’ve still got much to do. Little did we realize that the state GOP leadership would be in a position where’d they’d be concentrating their resources on the races for treasurer and auditor.
Is 14 votes enough for an automatic recount?
I think so. The rule is automatic for results that are separated by less than .5%. So it depends on the total vote there.
Larry–That’s assuming that there IS any Republican leadership after today.
I don’t get why UI considers the auditor’s race margin significantly slimmer than the treasurer’s race…they both round out to 54 : 46.
RICHARD KORN 53 . 9 %
KENNETH A. MATLUSKY 46 . 1 %
CHIP FLOWERS JR. 54 . 3 %
VELDA JONES-POTTER 45 . 7 %
Doesn’t anyone want to talk about Urquhart?
Back chatter on Boulden’s win was that she garnered heavy backroom pressure on constituents from the cuz’ duo Potter and Williams. So I guess the Potters had one victory yesterday. Casino jobs vote was the dealbreaker and is what probably chipped away at Helene’s base as well.
Also a supposed referendum on Sam Lathem’s fading power.
Urky + O’D = tour d’loon.
I think since Urquhart-Rollins is going to a recount it’s hard to comment on it right now. If I have time I might write a post. Alas, day job interferes.
I just received a push-poll from Urquhart (Your Pref 2010; 202-630-1956) telling me how pro-life and fiscally responsible he was, while painting Carney as a soulless, tax and spend liberal. Subtly isn’t Urkle’s strong suit. By the end of the poll I was laughing. It was just that ridiculous.
I wanna know if Izzo was the spoiler for Rollins. Any insight?
I doubt it. I think she took votes from Urquhart, not Rollins.
Yeah, I’m just not sure who Izzo’s voters were. All the pieces she sent out attacked Urquhart so she was probably going after his voters.
Flowers won sussex by 1500 half his margin of victory and it prepares him for the fat boy. He won the old fashioned way, he worked.
I don’t care how who oor why Bolden one I am just ecstatic that she did:)!
And Tim Willard you are a punk for what you tried and then lied about on John Brady. FAIL! Timmy, Brady spends a couple hundred shakes hands puts out well placed signs and wins by six! Tim you are useless, go hang in leg hall and collect your check.
I’m with you there, JP. Willard totally effed up the 37th RD and now we have Ruth Briggs-King because of it.
JP – what were the lies about Brady?
MJ – how did Willard fuck up the 37th? Rob Robinson was the most positive of a lackluster field of applicants last time, and ran a good campaign. No offense to Frank Shade – he’s a nice guy – but he’s not exactly charismatic.
The Dems last year tried to pick a Georgetownian for the seat to balance out the RBK/Booth advantage – it simply didn’t work. The district is gerrymandered to put Lewes at a huge disadvantage. That was how Booth beat Schroeder in the first place.
Should they have put Helen Truitt forward to lose miserably again? Or Mike Wyatt, a good guy who got whupped in his own town?
Was surprised that Bolden won. I will leave it to Cass to dissect that race.
Stephanie did this the old fashioned way — she knocked on doors tirelessly once she announced and didn’t stop til the polls closed. She talked to alot of people and showed up at meetings that Hazel Plant had never been to before. Lots of people were just delighted to see someone who was interested in them. This was in the face of a completely unified Delaware Black Caucus who savaged her just everywhere. Including the idiotic Dennis Williams. If you look at the EDs, she won 6 of them and took enough of a bite out of the rest of them to get the win. I’m not sure that this is true, but yesterday’s 2nd turnout was the highest in that district since Hazel Plant started running.
It also helped that Stephanie ran a respectful campaign, unlike the people running her opponent’s campaign.
Sounds like a huge net gain for the Dem delegation.
MJ – what did Weasel Willie Willard do yet again?
Yeah, MJ. Back it up.
The RD organization is a shambles in the 37th. Little leadership, no money, no volunteers. It was a headless beast and was a prime example of how not to run a political organization. Willard might be a good property attorney, but he has no idea on how to run a RD.
And we all know how that district was created. That will be corrected next year when the Dems do the redistricting.