Delaware's three counties don't share one structure. Kent County uses the historic "Levy Court" — seven elected commissioners, six by district and one at-large, combining legislative and administrative power, one of the oldest forms of county government in the country. Sussex County has an elected County Council. New Castle County — the state's most populous — moved away from a Levy Court in 1967 to a directly elected County Executive plus a seven-member County Council, a genuine separation of legislative and executive power. A resident should identify which of the three counties they're in and check that county's own council or Levy Court and clerk for meetings and records.

Most states apply one government structure consistently across all their counties; Delaware's three counties instead each operate under a different model, ranging from a traditional fused legislative-executive board to a separately elected county executive.