UPDATED: Delaware Primary Election Results Certified/33rd District Recount
UPDATED – 09/19/26 – The Delaware Department of Elections on Friday certified the Primary Election results. Click here for the results
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UPDATED – 09/18/29 – After unofficial results of the Delaware Primary election left the Republican Race for the 33rd District separated by just 7 votes, the Kent County Office of the Department of Elections recounted the votes in that race. The unofficial results have been confirmed and there are no changes to the results of the race which give Morgan Hudson the win over Matt Bucher 1017 votes to 1010 votes Hudson will face Democrat Joshua Pennington in the November General Election. The Delaware Department of Elections is scheduled to certify the Primary Election results today.
Before the recount was made, Candidate Matt Bucher posted this statement, congratulating Morgan Hudson on her win.
My fellow Republicans, especially in Delaware’s 33rd District:
I have contacted my GOP primary opponent Morgan Hudson to congratulate on her victory in the 33rd RD GOP primary.To everyone who volunteered, donated, and voted for me: thank you. I’m grateful beyond words. Running for office, even a local one, requires a massive human effort. I have made some lifelong friends in the past few months.
In accordance with Del. Code, there will be a recount of the election returns, due to the .3% margin being well within the half-percent trigger for an automatic recount. My campaign has not, nor will, request a recount. The recount will happen, statutorily, whether I desire it or not.
As a former 33rd District GOP chairman for three terms, I became necessarily and intentionally practiced in the processes used in our Delaware election systems. I have confirmed with DOE that all outstanding absentees and machine votes are accounted for and can report to you the likelihood of a different result in this particular election is a statistical zero. It is not in the interest of the Republicans and conservatives in the 33rd District, nor Delaware, to belabor, complain, stomp one’s feet, lawyer up, or otherwise cast doubt on this, the verdict of our local GOP primary voters. That would be small, petty, and divisive, and is not what we need right now.
Rather, what we need right now is clarity, and as the former leader of the Republican Party in the 33rd District, in Milford, Houston, Frederica, Bowers, and Magnolia, let me give you some now: I call on you all to unite, and pray for the success, and to grant wisdom and strength of will, to my former opponent, and 33rd District GOP nominee Morgan Hudson- and indeed all our Republican caucus.
Matt
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UPDATED – 09/16/26 – The final six districts and the last of the absentee ballots were posted just before 1am on Wednesday. These are unofficial results.
Thursday is the deadline for the State Board of Elections to convene to examine disputes related to Tuesday’s State Primary Election. The results will be certified on Friday in each county and within 48 hours of certification the Department of Elections will conduct a public audit of one randomly selected voting machine in each county and all voting machines in one randomly selected election district in the City of Wilmington.
Write-in candidates for the November General Election have until 4:30pm on September 21st to file a Write-In Candidate Declaration Form for Statewide office with the State Election Commissioner and for all other offices – General Assembly or county – with the respective County Office in which the election is to be held.
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ORIGINAL STORY – 09/15/26 – Six districts remain outstanding in the Delaware Primary Election – results remain unofficial. Quite a few incumbents will face challenges in the November General Election. Several others who are not challenged in November will return to office in January.
Two districts in the State House will see changes in representation in January
Eight seats are being left vacant as 7 House Representatives and one State Senator are retiring from office. Only 2 had primary elections – Districts 33 & 41.
Between the early voting option (100,310), absentee ballots (42,706) and low turnout at the polls today, overall turnout was just under 22%.
US SENATOR –
DEMOCRAT – Incumbent Chris Coons will move on to the General election after winning 78% of the party’s vote
REPUBLICAN – Michael “Dr. Mike” Katz also won 77% of the vote and moves on the the General election to challenge Coons
US CONGRESS –
REPUBLICAN – Joseph “Dr. Joe” Arminio will challenge incumbent Sarah McBride in November.
ATTORNEY GENERAL –
DEMOCRAT – Incumbent Kathy Jennings will move on to the General Election winning 71% of the party’s vote. Republican David Graham and write-in candidate Phil Dyer, Jr. will face Jennings in November.
STATE TREASURER –
DEMOCRAT – Ted Lauzen will likely move on to the General Election – he holds a lead of nearly 10,000 votes over Mike Miller. Lauzen will take on Republican Mike Ramone in November.
STATE HOUSE –
**DISTRICT 2 – Challenger Michelle Booker has a 66 vote lead over incumbent Stephanie Bolden in the Democrat Primary. Bolden has served the 2nd district since 2010. This is a winner takes all – with no Republican challenger
DISTRICT 20 – Incumbent Alonna Berry will move on to the General Election with 68% of the Democrat vote. She will take on Georgetown Town Manager Republican Gene Dvornick in November
**DISTRICT 28 – Democratic challenger Tyeisha “Tye” Grier has a 128 vote lead over incumbent William Carson. Carson, who is co-chair of the JFC and Chair of the Appropriations and Ag Committees has served since 2007. With no Republican challenger, the winner will head to the General Assembly in January
**DISTRICT 33 – Republicans Morgan Hudson and Matt Bucher are only 7 votes apart. The winner will take on Democrat Joshua Pennington in November.
DISTRICT 36 – Republican Bryan Shupe more than doubled the votes for Patrick Smith and will face a challenge from Democrat Andrew Gorlich in November
DISTRICT 41 – A three-way Republican battle has former Representative John Atkins just 67 votes ahead of Doug Conaway. The winner will face Democrat Ryan Stuckey in the General Election
