United States House of Representatives election in Delaware, 2018

United States House of Representatives election in Delaware, At-large district, 2018
November 6, 2018

 
Candidate Lisa Blunt Rochester Scott Walker
Party Democratic Republican
U.S. Representative before election

Lisa Blunt Rochester
Democratic

 Elected U.S. Representative

TBD

The 2018 United States House of Representatives election in Delaware will be held on November 6, 2018, to elect the U.S. Representative from Delaware's at-large congressional district, who will represent the state of Delaware in the 116th United States Congress. The election will coincide with the election of a U.S. Senator from Delaware and other federal and state offices. The seat is currently held by Democratic Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester.

Democratic primary

Lisa Blunt Rochester ran unopposed in the primary and automatically became the Democratic nominee.

Candidates

Nominee

Declined

Endorsements

Lisa Blunt Rochester
Organizations

Republican Party

Candidates

Nominee

Eliminated in primary

  • Lee Murphy, retired railroad worker and actor (refused to concede)[3][4]

Write-in

  • Andrew Webb, community activist and student[5]

Endorsements

Lee Murphy
Political candidates

Primary results

Results by county:
  Walker—50–60%
  Murphy—50–60%
Republican primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Scott Walker 19,572 53.0
Republican Lee Murphy 17,359 47.0
Margin of victory 2,213 6.0%
Turnout 36,931 19.7%[6]
Total votes 36,931 100.0

Controversy

Shortly afer the final results for the Republican primary, controversy almost immediately emerged about Scott Walker’s victory, as Lee Murphy had been seen as many as the favorite to win. Murphy refused to concede and took to Facebook in saying, “Friends, thanks for all your support- something stinks here and I will not be conceding anytime soon. Need to investigate big time. A Dem wins a Republican primary?”[7] Murphy also called for an investigation into the results.[8] Walker responded in saying that God led his campaign to victory.[9] Student and community activist Andrew Webb declared his Republican write-in candidacy on September 17, 2018, hoping to gain support from dissatisfied Republicans. He announced a platform of more moderate/traditional conservative ideas.[10] There are also two other write-in candidacies, with a far-right and conservative candidacy from Marvin Davis and Paul Johnston.

Libertarian Party

Candidates

Endorsed by Sussex County Chapter

  • Andrew Webb, community activist and student (write-in)

American Independent Party

Candidates

Write-in

  • Marvin Davis, activist

Independents

Not to be confused with the Independent Party of Delaware, which currently has no candidate for the 2018 United States House of Representatives election.

Candidates

Declared

  • Paul Johnston, veteran (write-in)

Withdrew

  • Christopher Mockerman, activist[11]

General election

Endorsements

Lisa Blunt Rochester
U.S. Senators
Governors
Lt. Governors
Political candidates
Organizations
Scott Walker
Individuals
Andrew Webb (write-in)
County Councilpersons
Individuals
Organizations
Declined to endorse
Declined to endorse Scott Walker

Predictions

Source Ranking As of
FiveThirtyEight[17] Solid D September 2018

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered		 Sample
size		 Margin
of error		 Lisa Blunt
Rochester (D)		 Scott
Walker (R)		 Undecided
University of Delaware September 11–17, 2018 728 LV – 58% 28% 15%
908 RV ± 3.7% 54% 26% 20%
Gravis Marketing July 24–29, 2018 884 ± 3.3% 46% 38% 16%

Results

Delaware's at-large congressional district, 2018
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Democratic Lisa Blunt Rochester (incumbent)
American Independent Marvin Davis (write-in) -
Republican Scott Walker
Independent Paul Johnston (write-in) -
Republican Andrew Webb (write-in)
Libertarian Andrew Webb (write-in)
Total Andrew Webb (write-in)
Margin of victory
Turnout
Total votes

References

  1. ↑ "FILED CANDIDATES BY OFFICE". Delaware Department of Elections.
  2. ↑ https://www.hrc.org/blog/hrc-endorses-senator-tom-carper-and-representative-lisa-blunt-rochester
  3. 1 2 Lee, Jim (July 11, 2018). "Deadline passes, primary contenders are set". Dover Post.
  4. ↑ "Matthew Bittle on Twitter".
  5. ↑ http://www.delawarepolitics.net/andrew-webb-launches-2018-campaign/
  6. ↑ "State of Delaware - Department of Elections · Office of the State Election Commissioner". elections.delaware.gov. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Matthew Bittle on Twitter".
  8. ↑ "Lee Murphy for Congress on Facebook".
  9. ↑ "Scott Walker for Congress on Facebook".
  10. ↑ http://www.delawarepolitics.net/andrew-webb-launches-2018-campaign/
  11. ↑ "Source Voting - Delaware".
  12. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn2Ihv8H4c4/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=7iqm6n5n7c27
  13. ↑ https://www.hrc.org/blog/hrc-endorses-senator-tom-carper-and-representative-lisa-blunt-rochester
  14. ↑ https://twitter.com/lisabrochester/status/1044331468217085952?s=21
  15. ↑ "Andrew Webb for Congress on Facebook".
  16. ↑ "Andrew Webb for Congress on Facebook".
  17. ↑ "Delaware at large - 2018 House Forecast". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved September 25, 2018.
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