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Independent Party of Delaware

political party in the US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ6016975 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Independent Party of Delaware (IPoD) is a political party in the State of Delaware, United States. As of August 2026, it is the third largest political party in Delaware with 12,578 registered voters.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Independent Party of Delaware” is political party in the US. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Independent, Party and Delaware, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000-08-29. For this dossier, Independent, Party and Delaware is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “political party in the US” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6016975. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Independent Party of Delaware” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.