For the first time, the South and West had two-party politics.
Three years later the council returned to two-party politics.
The rise of two-party politics in the South helps explain why: a vibrant Republican Party now threatened to take over state government.
The result of the all this was the Constitution of 1897 and the return of two-party politics to Delaware.
The battle has been further muddied by the rise of two-party politics in what has been a Democratic state.
For my own part, I readily admit to a bias in favor of two-party politics.
'The media have decided that there has been a return to two-party politics and everyone else has been marginalized,' she told the author.
All this came at the end of still another change - the rise of two-party politics in Texas.
For the first time two-party politics was extended to the South and West (which had been one-party regions).
Huhne suggested the media should learn to accept that the era of two-party politics is over.