Here are the 2026 Delaware County unofficial results

Regardless of whether you liked the outcome or not, the nonpartisan League of Women Voters' work promoting and protecting the vote is done for 2026.

One good outcome the League can brag about is that the Water, Land and Wildlife referendum was approved by a spectacular 75% of the voters - 171,131 of them said yes -compared to a "no" vote of 55,249. Surprisingly, the bipartisan referendum got more yes votes than votes for the winning statewide candidate, Gov. Josh Shapiro. Delco really cares about the environment.

The League, through the Delaware County Environmental Clearinghouse (sponsored by the LWV of Delaware County), had worked on the "yes" campaign and promoted the referendum all the way through. This is a reflection of the commitment of LWVUS, LWVPA and local Leagues over many decades to land conservation, clean air and water and mitigation of climate change.

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As a result of the election nationwide, the U.S. Senate and House both have a Democratic majority. Here in Pennsylvania, Gov. Shapiro, a Democrat, was handily re-elected and both the Senate and House are also now majority Democrat, something that has not happened for decades.

Similarly, every PA House representative in Delaware County is now a Democrat, with Republican Craig Williams' loss of House District 160 (Concord in Delco and Thornbury and Westtown in Chester County).

We'll never know here in Delaware County if the 2,300 postcards we wrote or the 5,000 voter registration forms we put in graduating seniors' hands or our dozens of tabling events or our work with Cheney University made a difference in voter turnout, but LWVPA Executive Director Amy Widestrom issued the following post-election statement:

Approximately 60 million voters across the country, including 1.1 million in Pennsylvania, cast ballots before Election Day, compared with fewer than 46 million in the 2022 midterms.

According to LWVUS, early voting among Black and Latino voters rose 35.8% and 46.3% compared with 2022. And nationwide, turnout on Election Day was up across the country. Thank you to everyone who voted, brought a friend, volunteered, or staffed a polling place. We are also grateful to the poll workers and election administrators who did demanding jobs under real pressure.

Dear Members,

Our Board of Directors would like me to report the extent of our members' engagement during 2026. I would like to personally thank you for being a "Champion of Democracy," for the 7,085 hours of work we calculate you put in and for sharing your unique talents with LWVCDC this year.

Our 2026 Volunteer Efforts Included:

●      Our volunteers (33) participated in 28 Voter Information events that include: New Citizen Ceremony, Senior Expos, Community Festivals, No Kings events, College & University Campuses. Totaling 755 volunteer hours.

●    Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) Postcard Writing Event(s) - Held 3 events in 3 municipalities (Media, Concord Township, and Folsom) 72 volunteers giving a total of 400 volunteer hours wrote 2,333 postcards!!!!!

●    Delco Youth Voter Coalition: High School Graduation Project involved all Delaware County public high schools and provided over 5600 voter registration materials to graduating seniors. This project involved Coalition partners LWV of Delaware County, NAACP Media and Chester Branches, PA Youth Vote, Delco Bureau of Elections and many community groups. The project was endorsed by America250PADelco and involved over 100 volunteers giving an estimated 675 volunteer hours. 

~ Anne Mosakowski

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The annual LWVCDC gathering will be at the Springhaven Club on Jan. 16 starting at 11:30 a.m. Price is tentatively set at $45. Save the date. Program details and registration forms will be sent to all members in December. 

Honoring the Legacy: The Delco Youth Voter Initiative

This an excerpt from the America250PADELCO post: Fall into History: Delaware County's Grassroots Fight for Inclusive Voting which reports on those honored on the banners spanning the Delaware County Courthouse entrance (above), The middle banner honors Anna Howard Shaw, Delco's most famous suffragist. To read the entire report Click HERE.

"This year, America250PADelco joined the League of Women Voters of Delaware County to deliver certificates to Delco high school superintendents whose schools participated in the Delco Youth Voter Initiative – a nonpartisan effort that is, in its quiet way, one of the most direct descendants of everything described above.

The initiative is a coalition: the League of Women Voters of Delaware County, the Delaware County Bureau of Elections, PA Youth Vote, and the NAACP's Media and Chester branches. Together, they bring voter registration packets directly to high school seniors during graduation rehearsals, reaching more than 5,000 graduates with physical forms and digital election tools before they walk across the stage. The message is simple: you are of age. You have the right. Here is how to use it.

The students receiving those registration packets at graduation rehearsals are the inheritors of that work – some of them living on streets named for the organizers in this very post. Most of them don't know it. That's an invitation."

The Leadership Team members of the League of Women Voters Immigration Discussion Group will discuss protecting immigrant rights, Wednesday, November 18 at 7pm ET via ZOOM.

The discussion Protecting the Rights of Immigrants: What Can We Do Now? will focus on how local Leagues can lobby at state and local levels for immigrant rights using the new LWV Immigrant Rights Policy.

The Presenters are: 

Susan F. Martin, Ph.D., is the Donald G. Herzberg Professor Emerita of International Migration at Georgetown University and served as the Executive Director of the U.S. Commission on Immigration. She is the author of several books about immigration and immigrants. She chaired the LWVWA study "Welcoming Immigrants to Washington State," which led to the LWVWA adopting a new position in June 2025 and LWVUS adopting the position in June 2026.

Lydia Zepeda, Ph. D., Professor Emerita University of Wisconsin-Madison and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has 13 years experience visiting and advocating for immigrants in detention and is the immigrants issues chair for LWV-Washington and co-authored with Susan Martin the LWVWA study "Welcoming Immigrants to Washington State."

Zoom Link for Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 7pm ET: CLICK HERE 

No Resting on our laurels. The League of Women Voters of Delaware County* will be presenting a three-part program on running for local office in preparation for the 2027 municipal election season. 

Part 1 will be on the nuts and bolts of how to run for office, filing forms, getting signatures on nominating petitions and the like. Part 2 will be a webinar on how to run for school board and Part 3 will be interviews with winning candidates to explain how they ran their successful campaigns.

We'll keep you informed of dates and registration forms in the January Voter and in email messages in coming months.

• LWV of Delaware County is our umbrella interleague organization (ILO) that is made up of the membership and officers of both LWVCDC and Radnor LWV and organizes countywide events. Our League does the publicity, maintains the LWVDC website and makes a lot of the preparation for LWVDC programs, in conjunction with Radnor.

LWV members involved with the LWV Immigration Discussion Group are partnering with Welcome.US, an immigrant support organization that pairs volunteers with green card holders to help prepare them for their citizenship tests. Members of the discussion group have stated that the test is getting harder. If this is something you would like to do to help immigrants or if you are an immigrant looking for help, please click on the links below. Welcome.US has volunteers in all 50 states. Tutoring takes place by Zoom.

This site is about helping green card holders prepare for their citizenship test.

https://welcome.us/citizenship/learner-support

Here is link about volunteering

https://welcome.us/citizenship

The International Relations Study Group of the League of Women Voters of Central Delaware County has been active for years studying different countries meeting monthly on the second Tuesday at 12:30 pm.

On December 8, the discussion will be a review of Chapter 7 of the 2026 Great Decisions book titled U.S. Engagement with Africa. You don't have to have the book.

NOTE: Due to a date conflict the Group will not meet in November.

This in-person gathering will be held at 6 Michele Drive, Media, 19063 beginning at 12:30 PM with a bag-brown lunch, a review of the Chapter video followed by the topic discussion. 

To learn more contact Joan Hazbun.