to be defeated and the only Democrat-to-Republican flip (Democrats picked up two state House seats). The race was especially significant because Cook was the longtime co-chair of the budget-drafting Joint Finance Committee. District 15 covers a sprawling area including almost all of western Kent County, from Smyrna to the outskirts of Harrington. District 19 was uncontested in the general election. Incumbent Republican Joseph W. (Joe) Booth of Georgetown won his first full term in office. Booth, a dry cleaning-store owner and former Georgetown mayor, Indian River school board member, and seven-year state House Representative, won a special election to replace longtime Senator Thurman Adams, a conservative Democrat, who died in office. Booth beat back a Republican primary challenge from Tea Party and 9-12 activist Eric R. Bodenweiser. District 20 was uncontested. Democrat George H. Bunting Jr. of Bethany Beach won another term. House of Representatives All of the seats in the Delaware House of Representatives are up for election in 2010. Local Sheriffs The countywide position of sheriff was up for election in all of Delaware's three counties. In heavily Democratic New Castle County, Democratic nominee Trinidad Navarro, 40, a senior corporal and chief media spokesman with the New Castle County Police, won with a very wide margin, defeating Republican William Hart, a commercial construction project manager and Independence Party of Delaware candidate Joseph O'Leary. In the Democratic primaries, Navarro routed 30-year incumbent Sheriff Mike Walsh, 72, with 63.3 percent of the vote. In the Republican primary, Hart defeated O'Leary, 14,377 to 11,105, but O'Leary chose to run as an Independence Party candidate. In Sussex County, Republican Jeffrey Scott Christopher, 46, of Greenwood, a former Sussex County sheriff's chief deputy, won with 53.8 percent of the vote, defeating incumbent Democrat Eric D. Swanson, 56, of Lewes, who had been sheriff since 2007 and prior to that a Delaware State Policeman. In Kent County, Democrat Norman Wood of Camden, a Smyrna Police Department lieutenant, defeated Republican incumbent Sheriff James A. Higdon Jr. of Dover. Higdon pleaded guilty in July 2010 to driving under the influence on May 29, 2010. First elected in 1994, he won reelection three more times, in 1998, 2002, and 2006, and only in 1998 had an opponent. References External links Delaware State Election Commissioner U.S. Congress Candidates for Delaware at Project Vote Smart Delaware Candidate List at Imagine Election - Search for candidates by address or zip