DOVER — Odds and ends between headlines and deadlines …
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Did you know …
• John Carney is only the ninth governor to win two successive terms in office. The last six — Gov. Carney, Pete du Pont, Mike Castle, Tom Carper, Ruth Ann Minner and Jack Markell — are among them.
• Only three lieutenant governors made successful leaps to the governor’s office. They were Elbert Carvel (1948), Mike Castle (1984) and Gov. Minner (2000). The last two to try — Gov. Carney and Bethany Hall-Long — lost in primary elections.
• Delaware is one of 18 states that elect candidates for governor and lieutenant governor separately. Parties split the offices six times since 1912. The last time was in 1984, when Mr. Castle, a Republican, won election as governor and Democrat S.B. Woo became lieutenant governor.
• This year, for the first time, two women — Democrat Kyle Evans Gay and Republican Ruth Briggs King — will compete in the lieutenant governor’s race in the general election.
• Lt. Gov. Hall-Long may become the fourth lieutenant governor called upon to fill the remaining term of a governor. Gov. Carney is scheduled to assume the role of Wilmington’s mayor ahead of his scheduled final day in office.