DL Primary Election Results Open Thread: Sept. 10, 2024
Polls close at 8. The timing on when the first results come in is, um, variable.
In theory, the early voting results could come in fairly early.
But I’ve detected no consistent pattern from the Department Of Elections over the past few cycles.
We should have a pretty good idea of where things stand by around 9:30 or so.
502 Bad Gateway looks to be the runaway winner.
502 Bad Gateway YEP!
Annnnd, looks like the DOE website has crashed. Getting a ‘Bad Gateway’ notice.
Guess it’s less offensive than ‘Bad Director Of Elections’…
Can’t wait for Governor Meyer to get rid of Anthony Albence
This is what happens when you let a state rot for 8 years. Maybe 75k vote in this election? There’s maybe 50 people looking at these results? All of them are also reading this blog.
If you dumb fucks can keep this hellsite up why can’t John Carney?
The NYTimes reports some results in the Governor’s race from Suxco:
Meyer: 3688
BHL: 2870
O’Mara: 1147
Supposedly 37% of Suxco vote in. I’m guessing this was early voting.
WDEL is breaking into the Phillies game occasionally with absentee and early voting totals. Meyer 54 to BHL 32 if I heard right, but is this no of votes or % I do not know!
Those are the numbers I saw before the site crashed. No way to know if they were from the whole state though. Good start for Matt, I think.
Despite an early lead for Bad Gateway, it now looks like Loa Ding is rolling ahead.
More Suxco Results for Lt. Governor:
Kyle Evans Gay: 5637
Sherry Dorsey Walker: 3524
Debbie Harrington: 1277
Can’t tell if these are ALL the early/absentee votes or not…
Governor
Democratic Party
Candidate Machine Votes Absentee Votes Early Voting Votes Total Votes Percentage
BETHANY HALL-LONG 0 2,588 3,542 6,130 34.39 %
MATT MEYER 0 3,745 5,532 9,277 52.05 %
COLLIN O’MARA 0 888 1,528 2,416 13.56 %
It’s hit or miss, but got these numbers on early/absentee
State Representative District 15
Democratic Party
Candidate Machine Votes Absentee Votes Early Voting Votes Total Votes Percentage
VALERIE LONGHURST 0 141 129 270 57.94 %
KAMELA T. SMITH 0 67 129 196 42.06 %
Nope, those early numbers seem to exclude Kent County:
Governor
Democratic Party
Candidate Party Wilmington Rest of New Castle Kent Sussex State Percentage
BETHANY HALL-LONG Democratic Party 583 2,677 0 2,870 6,130 34.39 %
MATT MEYER Democratic Party 1,260 4,329 0 3,688 9,277 52.05 %
COLLIN O’MARA Democratic Party 226 1,043 0 1,147 2,416 13.56 %
DOE is back. Bleepload of results. Pretty sure all are absentee and early votes:
Sarah McBride well over 80%
Matt Meyer up about 3000 over BHL, over 50% for now.
Kyle Evans Gay up about 3000 over Sherry.
Melanie Ross Levin is winning RD 10. Not close.
Claire Snyder-Hall with a good early lead over Marty. KMG distant third.
More:
Val up about 65 over Kam–absentee and early votes.
Too close to call in RD 21.
Marcus Henry leading Karen Hartley-Nagle about 2 to 1.
Monique Johns with early lead for NCC President. No idea where the votes are coming from.
Kevin Caneco killing George Dudlek. Yes!!
Carney and Velda running neck and neck.
She had a good sign game in Bear, in places the other candidates (aside Williams) didn’t have many.
I’m surprised to see Hoover in 4th though.
More:
Ramone’s wrapped up the R primary for governor.
D Tracey Miller is winning her primary in RD 34.
Carney pulling ahead.
Matt’s lead up to over 4K over BHL. About 25% of ED’s reporting.
Not looking good for Kam. I wonder what I missed…
Frank Burns in trouble.
Looks like Eric Morrison is cruising.
Surprised by what appears to be Jason Hoover’s weak performance in NCC President race.
Great case for ranked choice voting there.
Didn’t think about that, but agreed.
Some guy named John Whalen is winning the Rethug nomination for Congress.
Meyer’s lead is up over 5K now. Looks like he’s winning.
270towin called it for Matt,
WDEL called it for Matt too.
About 50% of the ED’s reporting.
Frank Burns has taken a small lead.
If that report does indeed drop, then York must be primaried.
I believe all the EDs in RD21 reported and Burns has won.
Meyer up over 6000 now. I’m calling it–Anthony, Lydia, you can release the reports now.
We are so close to getting rid of Our PAL Val!!
Do you think George Frankel’s results are partially due to his position on the ballot?
I do. I literally had five people text me today asking me who to vote for in that race. Imagine how many people had no clue and didn’t ask anyone their thoughts and just pressed the first name they saw.
Yeah…I noticed my county council presidential candidate outperformed their average where I had either left lit or greeted. I actually was able to swing a few votes, which is a little crazy that you can do that right outside the polls. I doubt it would have worked for the governor’s race, where more voters have opinions.
Hey Pete, your endorsement was good for third place! My sincerest congratulations!
I was slightly worried, but the results of KMG in a biiiiig third place deficit reignited my confidence in humanity.
Our PAL Val lost to Kam by 7 points! Ding dong the wicked witch…
Boom!
Not long after the house landed on her sister, too!
That reminds me–her sister was at the polling place this morning. And her niece.
They’re nice people.
VALERIE LONGHURST 992 144 129 1,265 46.63 %
KAMELA T. SMITH 1,249 70 129 1,448 53.37 %
I called it this morning! Buh bye Val!
What a great night. Excellent results all around (though few were actually surprising).
Website says Kamela is up 53.37 to 46.63
Val won? That’s not what I’m seeing.
They had some numbers backwards.
I took the post down.
I am now drinking liberally!!
The one race I took a personal stake in was the 15th. From the bottom of my heart, congratulations, Kam! I have waited for this moment for years. Good riddance Val. But I also thank you for solidifying the values my husband and this blog stand for.
Best wife ever!
It would be hilarious if the PAL fires Val too? Ding dong….
Well, she won’t be able to get that funding any more.
I doubt that Matt Meyer owes her any favors.
So…let the games begin.
she has that cop cabal protecting her. People like Navarro and his cronies who are on the board and are complicit in her corruption.
It’s how she got the job b/c Pete got tired of hearing her bitching.
Pete’s gone, Val’s gone. And Matt’s someone willing to hold the police accountable.
Val going down is icing on the cake. I wonder what she and her pet Laura Wisniewski are going to do with their careers now.
The sweetest icing.
So, who is up for Speaker of the House now?
I’m playing three-dimensional chess in my head right now.
I have a dark horse in mind–and I doubt that anybody’s thinking about them.
Sophie will be a great Speaker.
Wasn’t who I was thinking.
But, why not? Although, I wish she didn’t support Michael Smith.
Osienski?
Wouldn’t think so.
Caucus doesn’t take place until after the November election.
We’ve got a couple of competitive races that Monica Beard and Tracey Miller can win. Those races could change the calculus.
Can they repurpose all those white roses for her coronation and put them on her political grave?
‘Dead Flowers’ was one thought for tomorrow.
But I’ve been saving up a certain song should this occasion ever come to fruition.
It came to fruition, and you’ll hear it tomorrow.
It’s going to be interesting after the November election. The landscape has changed and new alliances will quickly form.
I have no deep insights into this, but in Sussex, County Council President Mike Vincent and Councilwoman Cindy Green have both been unseated by more conservative challengers.
The Sussex Dems, of course, aren’t running anyone in either race in November. Great job Jane Hovington!
I think the East Side of Sussex hate at unbridled growth bit them both.
Council President Vincent district is all Western Sussex, but Greens includes northwest Sussex and includes the Milton-Milford corridor.
Her district especially is getting run over by developers.
Been a long time since I’ve seen 2 councilmen outed at the same time, much less a Council President.
This along with the Speaker of the House losing says people have had enough.
George Frankel did well because he worked his ass off and because his ideas were good. he came out of nowhere and Monique won by 500 votes. I am sorry for New Castle County but fortunately she is too dumb to hurt too much. George has a great future in the democratic party. PS I am sorry I won’t get my free subscription to the blog but I do enjoy the level of intellectual exchange on the blog
The best consolation is–you get all this stuff for free!
Dumb Democrats vote-splitting.
Frankel, from what I could see, had no platform. Jason Hoover and Val Gould were functionally the same. If one of them dropped out and endorsed the other, they’d have the majority.
Precisely this ^^^^^
If either Hoover or Gould didn’t run, Frankel would have gotten more than 50% of the votes of the one who dropped out, especially if it was Hoover. He was a better campaigner and a better candidate. That’s why he finished second, and almost won, despite having way less resources than Hoover, especially.
Why would you assume that? The other two were anti-development and he’s pro-development. A “better candidate” how?
I’m very sorry to hear that George has a future in the Democratic Party. He looks like Sean Barney 2.0 to me.
Putting my vote for speaker in now: Larry Lambert.
Love Larry, he’s my State Rep.
But, y’know, there may well be a Senate seat opening up in Brandywine Hundred.
George Frankel lives in Sarah McBride’s senate seat. Go George win that race. You are the man or should I say you are the person or you are they.
George was the best candidate in that race by far, and it showed. He was under resourced, lacked any endorsements, but simply hustled and came within 500 votes of winning. Dee Durham should be ashamed. George merits serious consideration to replace Sarah McBride assuming she wins in November.
No he wasn’t. He was avowedly pro-developer.
It’s interesting to see this concerted effort to bolster his stature, though…
But as long as we’re playing this game, you will note that the two candidates who would not take developer money took just under 36% of the vote. Had only one run, they would likely have won.
And they would have done so without selling their soul to the development community. Unlike Frankel.
“Assuming she wins in November” kind of says it all, doesn’t it? Only a Republican would say that.
This guy is as insidery as it gets. Appointed a Senate page by Coons. Works for the Department of Labor. In other words, a careerist looking to get his start in the Delaware Way machine.
Get bent.
“And they would have done so without selling their soul to the development community. Unlike Frankel.”
Sorry, this is simply inaccurate. The only thing George did was refuse to point blank refuse to say he would never accept money from developers. That hardly makes him a shill for developers. His finance reports indicate that he had no developer donors. Read it for yourself, it is all available online. It’sfriends and family. In hindsight, should he have come up with a better answer, in response to the Yes/No will you ever take donations from developers? Yes.
However, the data and evidence indicates, again, if either Gould or Hoover, didn’t run, and it was a race of Gould, Frankel, Williams and Johns, (or Hoover, Frankel, Williams or Johns), George Frankel would have gotten a greater share of the votes of whoever, didn’t run. And he would have run the race.
How does the data and evidence indicate that he would have gotten those votes?
You’re fluffing this guy in the wrong place. I see nothing to indicate he’s anything like a progressive.
On a remarkable night, I go to bed with one pebble in my shoe.
Jason Hoover is a remarkably talented thinker and advocate for the public good. I hope that we will have the chance to vote for him again.
In the meantime, I hope that the 153rd General Assembly will consider ranked-choice voting. It’s been used in all-state basketball tallies for nearly 40 years. It works.
That sicko Dennis Williams isnt returning so thank god for that.
Since frankel got brought up let’s talk a few things and make overall comments
Frankel, Hoover and Gould never had any shot all running together. They were told this by many people and not one listened. Now you have Monique.
Marcus over Karen seemed inevitable. She simply went invisible because she knew her fate.
Smiley barely surviving surprised me. Grumpy grandpa can stop telling everyone how popular he is
Caneco destroying Dudlek was quite the message about development south of the canal.
Statewide, Bethany lost because she ran a dysfunctional campaign from the start. She’s a nice lady, but no match for real political organization
Kyle had this because she raised a ton of money and spent it wisely
Congress. Wait there was a race?
Frankel, Hoover, And Gould didn’t listen because they’re out for themselves, not for the greater good. No shade, that’s just how humans are typically made.
Yes, BHL was dysfunctional but few could rebound from the negative press (she earned it) throughout her campaign.
BHL losing made Ramone’s road to the governor’s seat that much tougher. It’s unlikely, but Ramone has a small shot. He isn’t Castle. But he isn’t a witch either.
I don’t see where he has a shot of any size.
This race is going to tax Ramone’s ability to use his typical “GOP? What is this GOP you speak of?” talking point.
Don’t think his leading of a Rethug walk-out of the House because the D’s wouldn’t approve corporations being able to vote in Seaford is gonna help him.
The morning after we brought down Val’s reign of terror feels as patriotic as the day we rolled into Iraq to dethrone Sadam Hussein as dictator
It DOES feel different, doesn’t it?
As hard as I and others worked to help Marie beat Dave I still kinda liked him. He is not the evil soulless person that was finally banished yesterday. The General Assembly has had a cleansing enema!
Valerie Longhurst
Tyrant of the House, Domestic Terrorist of the General Assembly (2005-2024)
It was very gracious of Matt Meyer in his speech to specifically thank BHL’s husband, which was more than she did.