The 1978 United States Senate election in Delaware was held on November 7, 1978. Incumbent
Democratic United States Senator
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and po ...
Joe Biden won re-election to a second term, defeating Republican challenger
James H. Baxter Jr in a landslide victory. This is the first of five elections that Biden won all counties. Biden went on to become Vice President, and later President. Biden, the youngest senator at the time of his first reelection, is currently the oldest serving President.
Republican primary
Candidates
* James H. Baxter Jr., Sussex County Recorder of Deeds
* James Allyn Venema, anti
desegregation busing
Race-integration busing in the United States (also known simply as busing, Integrated busing or by its critics as forced busing) was the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools within or outside their local school districts in ...
advocate, president of the Positive Action Committee and the National Association of Neighborhood Schools.
Results
General election
Candidates
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Joe Biden (D), incumbent Delaware Senator running for his first reelection
* James H. Baxter Jr. (R), Sussex County Recorder of Deeds
* Donald G. Gies (A), engineer, perennial candidate and officer in the
US Air Force Reserve.
Results
County results
See also
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1978 United States Senate elections
The 1978 United States Senate elections in the middle of Democratic President Jimmy Carter's term. Thirteen seats changed hands between parties, resulting in a net gain of three seats for the Republicans. Democrats nevertheless retained a 58&nd ...
References
1978
Events January
* January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
* January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government).
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Delaware
Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent ...
1978 Delaware elections
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