Preceded by Anthony DeLuca Party Democratic Party Role American politician | Name Bryan Townsend Political party Democratic | |
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Alma mater University of Delaware,
Newark
University of Cambridge
Yale University Education Yale Law School, University of Cambridge, University of Delaware | ||
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Bryan Townsend (born May 19, 1981) is an American politician and current state senator for Delaware's 11th Senate District.
Townsend was born in 1981 in Wilmington, Delaware and graduated from the University of Delaware in 2003. In his first run for political office, Townsend ran a closely watched grassroots campaign and defeated Anthony J. DeLuca, a 14-year incumbent and president pro tempore of the Delaware State Senate, in a September 11, 2012 Democratic primary. Townsend defeated DeLuca by winning 57.8 percent of the vote to DeLuca's 42.2 percent. Townsend then went on to defeat Republican Evan Queitsch in the November 6, 2012 general election, winning 78.4 percent of the vote to Queitsch's 21.6 percent.
Townsend was re-elected in 2014, defeating a primary challenger with 78.4% of the vote. No Republican candidate entered the subsequent general election to challenge him.
In September 2015, in the wake of Representative John Carney's announcement that he would run for Governor of the state, Townsend announced his candidacy for Delaware's at-large seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. On September 13 2016, his candidacy ended when he placed second in a six-way Democratic primary, behind Lisa Blunt Rochester.