United States Senate election in Delaware, 2006

United States Senate election in Delaware, 2006
Delaware
November 7, 2006

 
Nominee Thomas Carper Jan Ting
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 170,567 69,744
Percentage 67.1% 27.4%

County results

U.S. Senator before election

Thomas Carper
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Thomas Carper
Democratic

The 2006 United States Senate election in Delaware was held on November 7, 2006. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Thomas R. Carper won re-election to a second term.[1]

Republican primary

Candidates

Results

Republican primary results[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Jan Ting 6,110 42.47
Republican Michael D. Protack 5,771 40.12
Republican Christine O'Donnell 2,505 17.41
Total votes 14,386 100.00

General election

Candidates

Polling

Source Date Carper (D) Ting (R)
Fairleigh Dickinson October 31, 2006 60% 26%
Fairleigh Dickinson[3] September 22, 2006 63% 23%

Results

General election results[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Thomas Carper (inc.) 170,567 67.13% +11.60%
Republican Jan Ting 69,734 27.44% -16.26%
Write-in Christine O'Donnell 11,127 4.38%
Libertarian William E. Morris 2,671 1.05% +0.71%
Majority 100,833 39.68% +27.85%
Turnout 254,099
Democratic hold Swing

References

  1. "State of Delaware: General Election (Official Results)". Delaware Commissioner of Elections. 2006-11-16. Retrieved 2010-03-09.
  2. http://elections.delaware.gov/archive/elect06/elect06_primary/elect06_primary_office.shtml
  3. Chris Barrish (2006-09-22). "Independent poll says Carper has huge lead on Ting". Delaware News Journal. Retrieved 2006-10-29. Quote: "the first nonpartisan opinion poll in Delaware this year". The poll was conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind research center. Archived September 30, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  4. http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2006/2006senate.pdf

External links

Political position

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