Kent County, Delaware, elections, 2024
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Kent County, Delaware, held elections for local offices in 2024. Click the links below to learn more:
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County elections and candidates
November 5, 2024 (General)
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Kent
Kent County Clerk of The Peace
- Brenda Wootten (D)
- Marc Wienner (R)
Kent County Levy Court District 1
- Joanne Masten (D)
Kent County Levy Court District 3
- Allan Angel (D)
Kent County Levy Court District 5
Kent County Register of Wills
- D.J. Cox (D)
- Colin Bonini (R)
- Brenda Wootten (D)
September 10, 2024 (Primary)
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Kent
Kent County Levy Court District 5
- Susan Lanyon (D)
- George Jody Sweeney (D)
Kent County Register of Wills
- Colin Bonini (R)
- Susanne Whitney (R)
- Susan Lanyon (D)
City and township elections and candidates
April 30, 2024 (General)
April 27, 2024 (General)
March 30, 2024 (General)
School board elections and candidates
May 14, 2024 (General)
Demographics
| Demographic Data for Kent County, Delaware | ||
|---|---|---|
| Kent County | Delaware | |
| Population | 181,851 | 989,948 |
| Land area (sq mi) | 586 | 1,948 |
| Race and ethnicity** | ||
| White | 65.2% | 67.4% |
| Black/African American | 25.6% | 22% |
| Asian | 2.1% | 4% |
| Native American | 0.7% | 0.4% |
| Pacific Islander | 0% | 0.1% |
| Other (single race) | 1.2% | 2.3% |
| Multiple | 5.3% | 3.9% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 7.3% | 9.4% |
| Education | ||
| High school graduation rate | 88% | 90.6% |
| College graduation rate | 24.5% | 32.7% |
| Income | ||
| Median household income | $60,117 | $69,110 |
| Persons below poverty level | 13.2% | 11.4% |
| Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2015-2020). | ||
| **Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here. | ||
Presidential election results by county, 2012-2020
How a state's counties vote in a presidential election and the size of those counties can provide additional insights into election outcomes at other levels of government including statewide and congressional races. Below, four categories are used to describe each county's voting pattern over the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections: Solid, Trending, Battleground, and New. Click [show] on the table below for examples:
| County-level voting pattern categories | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Democratic | D | D | D | ||||
| Trending Democratic | R | D | D | ||||
| Battleground Democratic | D | R | D | ||||
| New Democratic | R | R | D | ||||
| Republican | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Republican | R | R | R | ||||
| Trending Republican | D | R | R | ||||
| Battleground Republican | R | D | R | ||||
| New Republican | D | D | R | ||||
Following the 2020 presidential election, 57.7% of Delawareans lived in New Castle County, the state's one Solid Democratic county, which voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election from 2012 to 2020, and 24.0% lived in Sussex County, the state's one Solid Republican county. Overall, Delaware was Solid Democratic, having voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2012, Hillary Clinton (D) in 2016, and Joe Biden (D) in 2020. Use the table below to view the total number of each type of county in Delaware following the 2020 election as well as the overall percentage of the state population located in each county type.
| Delaware county-level statistics, 2020 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solid Democratic | 1 | 57.7% | |||||
| Solid Republican | 1 | 24.0% | |||||
| Battleground Democratic | 1 | 18.4% | |||||
| Total voted Democratic | 2 | 76.0% | |||||
| Total voted Republican | 1 | 24.0% | |||||
Other counties in Delaware
Navigate to Delaware 2024 local election overviews:
Kent | New Castle | Sussex
See also
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