Del. Code Ann. tit. 15, § 5706
Form of certificates
(a) The certificates of the Court of the results of the election in its county must be according to the following form or be substantially similar to the following form:
The State of Delaware, ________________________________ County, ss.
Be it Remembered, that at the general election held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in the year________________ for ________________________________ County, according to the Constitution and laws of the State of Delaware (here insert, the information required under 15 Del. C. § 5706(b) for each office and the names of the individuals elected), which is manifest by tabulating of all votes cast for each individual voted for in all the election districts of the county.
In testimony, whereof, we ________________________________ and ________________________________ constituting the Superior Court for ________________________________ ________________________________ County, who have met and certified the results of the election throughout this county, as the law requires, have hereunto set our hands and caused the seal of the said Superior Court to be hereunto affixed at the courthouse in this county, on this ________ day of November, ________
- (b) The manner of making the insertion under subsection (a) of this section is as follows:
(1) If the certificate is of electors of President and Vice President, the number of votes cast for each Elector, as follows:
________ votes cast for ________________________________ for Elector.
(2) If the certificate is of an election of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Senator in the Senate of the United States, Representative in Congress, Attorney General, Insurance Commissioner, State Treasurer, or Auditor of Accounts, the number of votes cast for each individual voted, for each office, as follows:
________ votes were given for ________________________________ for (office)
(3) If the certificate is of an election of Senators to the General Assembly, the name of each individual elected to the Senate, as follows:
________ was duly elected Senator for the ________________________________ Senatorial District for said County in the General Assembly.
(4) If the certificate is of an election of Representatives to General Assembly, the name of each individual elected to the House of Representatives, as follows:
________ was duly elected Representative for the ________________________________ Representative District for County in the General Assembly.
(5) a. If the certificate is of an election of a clerk of the peace, register of wills, recorder, county executive, county council member, Levy Court Commissioner, or sheriff, the name of individual elected to each office on the ballot for that election.
- b. The certificate of an election of a county council member or Levy Court Commissioner must include the district for the individual elected to each office.
21 Del. Laws, c. 38, § 26; Code 1915, § 1780; Code 1935, § 1869; 15 Del. C. 1953, § 5706; 55 Del. Laws, c. 85, §§ 34C, 34D; 57 Del. Laws, c. 169, § 5; 57 Del. Laws, c. 762, § 33D; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 72 Del. Laws, c. 434, §§ 5, 6; 73 Del. Laws, c. 91, § 11; 80 Del. Laws, c. 209, § 9; 82 Del. Laws, c. 141, § 11; 85 Del. Laws, c. 422, § 2