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2020 United States Senate election in Delaware

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2020 United States Senate election in Delaware

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Nominee Chris Coons Lauren Witzke
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 291,804 186,054
Percentage 59.4% 37.9%

County results
Coons:      50–60%      60–70%
Witzke:      50–60%

U.S. Senator before election

Chris Coons
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Chris Coons
Democratic

An election happened on November 3, 2020 to elect a Senator from the U.S. state of Delaware. The main two people in the election were Chris Coons (Democratic Party) and Lauren Witzke (Republican Party). Mark Turley (Independent Party) and Nadine Frost (Libertarian Party) were also in the election. Coons won the election and stayed as Senator.

Primary elections happened on September 15, 2020. The Democratic Party primary was between Chris Coons and Jessica Scarane, which Coons won. The Republican Party primary was between Lauren Witzke and James DeMartino, which Witzke won.

Democratic Party primary

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Results by county:
  Coons—70–80%
  Coons—60–70%
Democratic primary results[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Chris Coons (incumbent) 87,332 72.85%
Democratic Jessica Scarane 32,547 27.15%
Total votes 119,879 100.00%

Republican Party primary

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Results by county:
  Witzke—60–70%
  Witzke—50–60%
Republican primary results[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Lauren Witzke 30,702 56.89%
Republican James DeMartino 23,266 43.11%
Total votes 53,968 100.00%

Other candidates

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Libertarian Party

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  • Nadine Frost, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate in 2018[2]

Independent Party of Delaware

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  • Mark Turley, small business owner[3]
United States Senate election in Delaware, 2020[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Chris Coons (incumbent) 291,804 59.44% +3.61%
Republican Lauren Witzke 186,054 37.90% -4.33%
Independent Mark Turley 7,833 1.59% N/A
Libertarian Nadine Frost 5,244 1.07% N/A
Total votes 490,935 100.0%
Democratic hold

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "2020 State Primary Election Report". Delaware.gov. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
  2. "State of Delaware - Department of Elections · Office of the State Election Commissioner". elections.delaware.gov. Archived from the original on 2019-07-28. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  3. Mueller, Sarah. "Independent party candidate challenges Sen. Coons in 2020". delawarepublic.org.
  4. "2020 General Election Report". Delaware Department of Elections. Retrieved November 11, 2020.