Any person claiming to be elected to an office to be exercised in and for any county, district or hundred may contest the right of any person declared to be duly elected to such office for any of the following causes:
(1) For malconduct on the part of the election officers or clerks holding the election, or any one of them;
(2) When the person whose right to the office is contested was not at the time of the election eligible to such office;
(3) When the person whose right is contested has given to any elector or inspector, judge or clerk of election, any bribe or reward or shall have offered any bribe or reward for the purpose of procuring his or her election;
(4) On account of illegal votes.
Structure Delaware Code
Chapter 59. CONTESTED ELECTIONS
§ 5941. Who may contest; causes.
§ 5942. Irregularities not invalidating election.
§ 5943. Requirements to set aside election because of illegal voting.
§ 5944. Circumstances under which contestant need not claim to have been elected.
§ 5945. Statement of contestant; contents.
§ 5946. Verification of contestant's statement.
§ 5948. Citation; service and return.
§ 5949. Dismissal of proceedings.
§ 5951. Trial by Court; by jury.
§ 5952. Proof and evidence limited by statement.