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The '''134th Delaware General Assembly''' was a meeting of the legislative branch of the state government, consisting of the Delaware Senate and the Delaware House of Representatives. Elections were held the first Tuesday after November 1 and terms began in Dover on the first Tuesday in January. This date was January 5, 1987, which was two weeks before the beginning of the third administrative year of Republican Governor Mike Castle from New Castle County and the third year for Democratic Lieutenant Governor S. B. Woo, also from New Castle County.
{{confusing section|date=October 2024}} Currently the distribution of seats for both houses was based on the interpretation of the federal 1980 census. It resulted in a large numbers of membership numbers in the New Castle County area and ruling that the election districts would abandonment of county lines for their boundaries, but would design whatever district boundaries that would accomplish such population equals.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}
In the 134th Delaware General Assembly session the Senate had a Democratic majority and the House had a Republican majority.
==Leadership==
===Senate=== *Richard S. Cordrey, Sussex County, Democratic
===House of Representatives=== *B. Bradford Barnes, Sussex County, Republican *Terry R. Spence, New Castle County, Republican
==Members==
===Senate=== About half the state senators were elected every two years for a four-year term, except the decade district redesign year, when all served two years. They were designed for equal populations from all districts and its accomplishment occasionally included some territory from two counties.
{|width=100% |-valign=top | :'''New Castle County''' *1. Harris McDowell III *2. Herman M. Holloway Sr. *3. Robert I. Marshall *4. Robert J. Berndt *5. Myrna L. Bair *6. Andrew G. Knox *7. Robert T. Still | :'''New Castle County''' *8. Margo E. Bane *9. Thomas B. Sharp *10. James P. Neal *11. Roger A. Martin *12. Robert T. Connor *13. David B. McBride *14. James T. Vaughn | :'''Kent County''' *15. Nancy W. Cook *16. William C. Torbert *17. Jacob W. Zimmerman *18. Ruth Ann Minner
:'''Sussex County''' *19. Thurman G. Adams Jr. *20. Richard S. Cordrey *21. William A. Slatcher |}
===House of Representatives=== All the state representatives were elected every two years for a two-year term. They were designed for equal populations from all districts and its accomplishment occasionally included some territory from two counties.
{|width=100% |-valign=top | :'''New Castle County''' *1. Orlando J. George Jr. *2. Al O. Plant Sr. *3. James H. Sills Jr. *4. Joseph G. DiPinto *5. Casimir S. Jonkiert *6. David H. Ennis *7. Gwynne P. Smith *8. David D. Brady *9. Charles L. Hebner Sr. *10. Jane P. Maroney *11. Marybeth T. Boykin *12. Philip J. Corrozi *13. John F. Van Sant III *14. John A. Campanelli | :'''New Castle County''' *15. Rodney Dixon *16. William I. Houghton *17. Jeffrey G. Mack *18. Terry R. Spence *19. Robert F. Gilligan *20. Roger P. Roy *21. Steven C. Taylor *22. Joseph R. Petrilli *23. Ada Leigh Soles *24. William A. Oberle Jr. *25. Steven H. Amick *26. Richard F. Davis *27. Katherine M. Jester | :'''Kent County''' *28: Bruce C. Ennis *29. Donald M. Clark *30. George R. Quillen *31. E. Stuart Outten Jr. *32. Edward J. Bennett *33. G. Wallace Caulk Jr. *34. Gerald A. Buckworth
:'''Sussex County''' *35. B. Bradford Barnes **J. Benjamin Ewing *36. V. George Carey *37. Jay D. Wingate *38. George H. Bunting Jr. *39. Evelyn K. Fallon *40. Clifford F. Lee *41. Charles P. West |}
==References== *{{cite book |title=Democracy in Delaware |last=Hoffecker |first=Carol E. |publisher=Cedar Tree Books |location=Wilmington, Delaware |year=2004 |isbn=1-892142-23-6}} *{{cite book |title=Memoirs of the Senate |last=Martin |first=Roger A. |publisher=Roger A. Martin |location=Newark, Delaware |year=1995 }}
==Places with more information== *Delaware Historical Society; [https://web.archive.org/web/19961231010053/http://hsd.org/ website]; 505 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801; (302) 655-7161. *University of Delaware; [http://www.lib.udel.edu/ Library website]; 181 South College Avenue, Newark, Delaware 19717; (302) 831-2965.
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