Delaware Official Election Results by Candidate and Office

Official election results from Delaware provide vote counts by candidate, office, and party. Data includes totals from absentee, machine, and early voting methods for each election. The dataset is published by data.delaware.gov and was last updated in November 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between PartyName and TotalVotesSum for specific Office and ElectionName.
• Compare voting method efficiency by calculating the proportion of AbsenteeVotesSum, MachineVotesSum, and EarlyVotesSum to TotalVotesSum.
• Track candidate performance over time by joining on CandidateName and ElectionDate across multiple records.
• Calculate TotalVotesPercentage for candidates within a specific Office and ElectionName to determine margin of victory.

Strengths

• Data includes vote breakdowns by three collection methods: AbsenteeVotesSum, MachineVotesSum, and EarlyVotesSum.
• Provides key electoral dimensions including Office, PartyName, CandidateName, and ElectionDate.

Limitations

• Sample data is unavailable, preventing assessment of row count, data completeness, or value distributions.
• The absence of geographic columns like precinct or county limits granular spatial analysis.

Provenance

Source

data.delaware.gov

Freshness

Last updated on 2024-11-12.

Geography

Delaware, USA