- Source: 2020 United States Senate election in Delaware
The 2020 United States Senate election in Delaware was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Delaware, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections.
Incumbent Democratic senator Chris Coons ran for reelection to a second full term and won against Republican challenger Lauren Witzke with 59.4% of the vote. He outperformed Democratic presidential nominee and former Delaware Senator Joe Biden (whose seat Coons was elected to in a 2010 special election) by 0.7 percentage points, compared to the concurrent presidential election. Coons also won Kent County, a swing county, for the first time in his senatorial career.
Democratic primary
= Candidates
=Nominee
Chris Coons, incumbent U.S. senator
Eliminated in primary
Jessica Scarane, technology executive
Withdrawn
Scott Walker, Republican nominee for Delaware's at-large congressional district in 2018 (running for governor as a Republican)
Declined
Kerri Evelyn Harris, former candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in 2018
Lisa Blunt Rochester, incumbent U.S. representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district (running for re-election)
= Endorsements
== Polling
== Results
=Republican primary
= Candidates
=Nominee
Lauren Witzke, far-right activist and proponent of the QAnon conspiracy theory
Eliminated in primary
James DeMartino, attorney and nominee for the Delaware House of Representatives in 2016 & 2018
Declined
Rob Arlett, former Sussex County councilman and nominee for U.S. Senate in 2018
= Endorsements
== Results
=Other candidates
= Libertarian Party
=Nominee
Nadine Frost, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate in 2018
= Independent Party of Delaware
=Nominee
Mark Turley, small business owner
General election
Prior to the election, Chris Coons' re-election was considered to be a near certainty regardless of the Republican challenger. The choice of Lauren Witzke, a controversial extremist and believer of QAnon, as the nominee, only cemented this prediction. Networks declared Coons the winner as soon as voting ended, based on exit polling alone. Coons also outperformed Biden (who also once held this Senate seat) in terms of percentage, but underperformed in terms of raw vote, likely due to the lack of third-party Senate candidates.
= Predictions
== Endorsements
== Polling
== Results
=By county
Notes
References
External links
Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association, "Delaware", Voting & Elections Toolkits
"Delaware: Election Tools, Deadlines, Dates, Rules, and Links", Vote.org, Oakland, CA
"League of Women Voters of Delaware". (state affiliate of the U.S. League of Women Voters)
Delaware at Ballotpedia
Official campaign websites
Chris Coons (D) for Senate
Mark Turley (I) for Senate
Lauren Witzke (R) for Senate
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