11/07/2006 11:08 PM ET

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP)- Democrat Beau Biden has been elected Delaware's attorney general.

He faced Republican Ferris Wharton in the hottest contest in the state.

Biden, the son of Delaware's U-S Senator Joe Biden, will succeed Carl Danberg. He took over as attorney general last year after Jane Brady left the office to become a judge.

Wharton accused 37-year-old Biden of lacking the requisite experience to be attorney general, describing him as "somebody who has never paid his dues." 

Biden, meanwhile criticized 54-year-old Wharton for failing to do more to protect citizens during his 23-year-tenure in the state Department of Justice. 

Also Republican incumbant Thomas Wagner has won re-election as state auditor.