In the 3rd district Assembly seat, Durr’s running mates, Assemblywoman Bethanne McCarthy Patrick (R-Mannington) and Hopewell Township Committeeman Thomas Tedesco defeated Joseph Collins, the nephew of former Assembly Speaker Jack Collins, with ease. In the 28th district, where Assemblywoman Mila Jasey (D-South Orange) is retiring after sixteen years, Deputy Essex County Clerk Garnet Hall, the Maplewood Democratic vice chair, was the top vote-getter incumbent Cleopatra Tucker (D-Newark) finished second, defeating former Maplewood Mayor Frank McGehee by a 2-1 margin. Gill has been in Trenton for nearly 30 years, winning an Assembly seat in 1993 and a Senate seat in 2001.Ĭodey won 57% in Essex County, and 61% in Clifton, the lone Passaic County municipality in the district. In the 27th district Assembly contest, incumbent John McKeon (D-West Orange) and Alixon Collazos-Gill, a former congressional aide from Montclair, won a 2-1 victory against former Montclair school board member Eve Robinson, with former Assemblyman Craig Stanley receiving an even bigger drubbing.Ī former governor of New Jersey, Codey was first elected to the Assembly in 1973 at age 26 and to the Senate in 1981 he’s now in his 50th year as a state legislator. In the Assembly race, incumbents Jay Webber (R-Morris Plains) and Brian Bergen (R-Denville) scored landslide victories against former Assemblywoman BettyLou DeCroce (R-Parsippany) and former Parsippany Councilman Robert Peluso. One of the most conservative members of the New Jersey Senate, Pennacchio carried Morris with 60% and Passaic with 59% to score renomination to a sixth term. In the 26th district, Pennacchio faced a vicious and frequently deceptive challenge from Morris County Commissioner Tom Mastrangelo (R-Montville) and demolished him by twenty percentage points. He’ll run with Gloucester County Commissioner Heather Simmons and non-profit executive Dave Bailey, who easily won their State Assembly primaries against Tanzie Youngblood and Robert Fitzpatrick. Durr carried Gloucester County with 64%, Salem with 65%, and Cumberland with 76%.įormer Assembly Appropriations Committee Chairman John Burzichelli easily captured the Democratic nomination, defeating music teacher Mario DeSantis by a 3-1 margin. Robert Kovic finished last with 5%.ĭurr, the truck driver-turned-giant killer who upset Senate President Steve Sweeney two years ago, defeated his former running mate, Assemblywoman Beth Sawyer (R-Woolwich), by a 65%-35% margin. The closest race came in the 24th district, where five Republicans sought two open State Assembly seats, Sussex County Commissioner Dawn Fantasia (27%) and her running mate, Chester Mayor Mike Inganamort (25%), defeated Lafayette Board of Education President Josh Aikens (22%) and Warren County Commissioner Jason Sarnoski (21%).
He took Gloucester County, where DeSilvio had the line, with 60% Del Borrello had the line in Camden and Atlantic, where he won 50% and 82%, respectively.ĭel Borrello will now face Assemblyman Paul Moriarty (D-Washington Township) for the seat held for the last 20 years by Democrat Fred Madden (D-Washington Township).įormer Buena Council President and Operating Engineers Local 825 member Matthew Walker and public school teacher Amanda Esposito, running with Del Borrello, defeated Michael Clark and Denise Gonzalez by a wide margin to capture the GOP Assembly nomination. In a heated GOP primary for an open Senate seat in the competitive 4th district, former Washington Township Councilman Chris Del Borrello beat Gloucester County Commissioner Nick DeSilvio by a 61%-39% margin. The only incumbent to lose was Nia Gill (D-Montclair), who was forced into a primary against Codey, her longtime colleague, after legislative redistricting.
Codey (D-Roseland) winning outsized double-digit victories in races viewed as competitive. Durr (R-Logan), Joseph Pennacchio (R-Montville), and Richard J. Organization lines mostly held for both parties in six closely-watched state legislative races in Tuesday’s primary election, with incumbent State Sens.
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