Delaware's At-large congressional district

Delaware's At-large congressional district is a congressional district

Congressional district

A congressional district is “a geographical division of a state from which one member of the House of Representatives is elected.”Congressional Districts are made up of three main components, a representative, constituents, and the specific land area that both the representative and the...

that includes the entire U.S. state

U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

of Delaware

Delaware

Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...

.

It is currently represented by Democrat

Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

John C. Carney, Jr.

John Charles Carney, Jr. is the U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware from 2001 to 2009...

, the former Lieutenant Governor of Delaware

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....

Voting

Election results from presidential races
Year	Office	Results
2000	President United States presidential election, 2008 The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on November 4, 2008. Democrat Barack Obama, then the junior United States Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican John McCain, the senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. Obama received 365...	Gore Al Gore Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election.... 55 - 42%
2004	President United States presidential election, 2004 The United States presidential election of 2004 was the United States' 55th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Republican Party candidate and incumbent President George W. Bush defeated Democratic Party candidate John Kerry, the then-junior U.S. Senator...	Kerry John Kerry John Forbes Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to former President George W... 53 - 45%
2008	President United States presidential election, 2008 The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on November 4, 2008. Democrat Barack Obama, then the junior United States Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican John McCain, the senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. Obama received 365...	Obama Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in... 61 - 36%

History

Delaware

Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...

has always had only one U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

, except for 10 years between 1813 and 1823, when there was a second Representative. This person was elected statewide, at-large, on the same ballot as the first Representative. The two candidates with the highest number of votes were elected.

Former U.S. Representative Michael N. Castle

Michael N. Castle

Michael "Mike" Newbold Castle is a former Governor and former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1993 until 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party....

, a Republican and former Governor of Delaware, had held this seat easily from January 1993 until his retirement in January 2011 in his unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination to run for the U.S. Senate

United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

Recent election results

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1992-2008

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| rowspan=2 | 1992

United States House elections, 1992

The United States House of Representatives elections in 1992 coincided with the 1992 presidential election, in which Democrats Bill Clinton and Al Gore were elected as President and Vice President, respectively, defeating Republican incumbent President George H. W...

|U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

|Primary

Primary election

A primary election is an election in which party members or voters select candidates for a subsequent election. Primary elections are one means by which a political party nominates candidates for the next general election....

|
| |Michael N. Castle

Michael N. Castle

Michael "Mike" Newbold Castle is a former Governor and former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1993 until 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party....

| |Republican

Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

| |18,377
| |56%
|
| |Janet C. Rzewnicki
| |Republican

Republican Party (United States)

| |9,812
| |30%
|-
|U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

|General

General election

In a parliamentary political system, a general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are chosen. The term is usually used to refer to elections held for a nation's primary legislative body, as distinguished from by-elections and local elections.The term...

Republican Party (United States)

| |153,037
| |55%
|
| |Shien Biau Woo

Shien Biau Woo

Shien Biau "S.B." Woo is an American professor and politician from Newark, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party and served as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Delaware.- Early life and family :Woo's ancestral hometown is Yuyao, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province...

| |Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

| |117,426
| |43%
|-
|1994

United States House elections, 1994

The 1994 U.S. House of Representatives election was held on November 8, 1994, in the middle of President Bill Clinton's first term. As a result of a 54-seat swing in membership from Democrats to Republicans, the Republican Party gained a majority of seats in the United States House of...

|U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

|General

General election

Republican Party (United States)

| |137,945
| |71%
|
| |Carol Ann DeSantis
| |Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

| |51,793
| |27%
|-
|1996

United States House elections, 1996

The U.S. House election, 1996 was an election for the U.S. House of Representatives on November 5, 1996, which coincided with the re-election of Bill Clinton as President of the United States. Clinton's Democratic Party won a net of nine seats from the Republican Party, but the Republicans...

|U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

|General

General election

Republican Party (United States)

| |185,577
| |70%
|
| |Dennis E. Williams
| |Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

| |73,258
| |27%
|-
|1998

United States House elections, 1998

The U.S. House elections in 1998 were part of the midterm elections held during President Bill Clinton's second term. They were a major disappointment to the Republican Party, which was expecting to gain seats due to the embarrassment Clinton suffered during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and the...

|U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

|General

General election

Republican Party (United States)

| |119,811
| |66%
|
| |Dennis E. Williams
| |Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

| |57,446
| |32%
|-
|2000
|U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

|General

General election

Republican Party (United States)

| |211,797
| |68%
|
| |Michael C. Miller
| |Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

| |96,488
| |31%
|-
|2002

United States House elections, 2002

The Elections for the United States House of Representatives on 5 November 2002 was in the middle of President George W. Bush's first term. Although it was a midterm election, the Republican Party gained a net eight seats, solidifying their majority...

|U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

|General

General election

Republican Party (United States)

| |164,605
| |72%
|
| |Michael C. Miller
| |Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

| |61,011
| |27%
|-
|2004

United States House elections, 2004

Elections to the United States House of Representatives for the 109th Congress were held on November 2, 2004. The House of Representatives has 435 seats. It coincided with the reelection of President George W. Bush. In the 108th Congress, Republicans held 227 seats, Democrats held 205, with two...

|U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

|General

General election

Republican Party (United States)

| |245,978
| |69%
|
| |Paul Donnelly
| |Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

| |105,716
| |30%
|-
|2006

United States House elections, 2006

- House of Representatives prior to the election :As of November 7, 2006, the U.S. House of the 109th Congress was composed of 229 Republicans, 201 Democrats and 1 Independent . There were also four vacancies...

|U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

|General

General election

Republican Party (United States)

| |143,897
| |57%
|
| |Dennis Spivack
| |Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

| |97,555
| |39%
|-
|2008

United States House elections, 2008

Infobox Election| election_name = United States House of Representatives elections, 2008| country = United States| type = legislative| ongoing = no...

|U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

|General

General election

Republican Party (United States)

| |235,419
| |61.1%
|
| |Karen Hartley-Nagle
| |Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

| |146,399
| |38.0%

2010

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