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Delaware gubernatorial election, 2016

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November 8, 2016
  
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Delaware gubernatorial election, 2016

The 2016 Delaware gubernatorial election took take place on November 8, 2016, to elect the Governor of Delaware, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

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Incumbent Democratic Governor Jack Markell was term-limited and could not run for re-election to a third term in office.

Declared

  • John Carney, U.S. Representative, former Lieutenant Governor of Delaware and candidate for Governor in 2008

    • Withdrew

  • Kevin Tinsley

    • Declined

  • Matthew Denn, Delaware Attorney General and former Lieutenant Governor of Delaware
  • Bryan Townsend, State Senator (Running for Delaware's at-large seat in Congress)
  • Thomas P. Gordon, County Executive of New Castle County
  • John Kowalko, State Representative
  • Peter Schwartzkopf, Speaker of the Delaware House of Representatives

    • Former

  • Beau Biden, former Delaware Attorney General announced his candidacy in 2014. Biden's campaign ended when he died of brain cancer on May 30, 2015.

    • Declared

  • Colin Bonini, State Senator and nominee for State Treasurer in 2010
  • Lacey Lafferty, retired state trooper

    • Declined

  • Michael Ramone, State Representative
  • Daniel Short, Minority Leader of the Delaware House of Representatives
  • Gregory Lavelle, Minority Whip of the Delaware Senate
  • Alan Levin, Director of the Delaware Economic Development Office and former President and CEO of Happy Harry's
  • Ken Simpler, State Treasurer of Delaware

    • Declared

  • Sean Louis Goward

    • References

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