New Jersey
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's 30th Legislative District is one of 40 districts that make up the map for the
New Jersey Legislature
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Lake Como
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Ocean County
Ocean County is a county located along the Jersey Shore in the south-central portion of the U.S. state of New Jersey. It borders the Atlantic Ocean on the east. Its county seat is Toms River.Lakewood Township and Point Pleasant.
Demographic information
As of the
2020 United States census
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, the district had a population of 269,949, of whom 179,028 (66.3%) were of voting age. The racial makeup of the district was 226,943 (84.1%)
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, 6,638 (2.5%)
African American
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Pacific Islander
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, 15,059 (5.6%) from some other race, and 15,864 (5.9%) from two or more races.
Hispanic
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or Latino of any race were 28,506 (10.6%) of the population.
The district had 168,561 registered voters , of whom 68,776 (40.8%) were registered as unaffiliated, 63,444 (37.6%) were registered as Republicans, 34,659 (20.6%) were registered as Democrats, and 1,682 (1.0%) were registered to other parties.
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Sean T. Kean
Sean T. Kean (born May 21, 1963) is an American Republican Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since being sworn into office on January 10, 2012, representing the 30th legislative district, Prior to redistricti ...
Ned Thomson
Edward H. "Ned" Thomson III (born 1953) is an American Republican Party politician who has represented the 30th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly since August 2017. He replaced Dave Rible, who left office to serve as Dire ...
(R, Wall Township).
The legislative district is entirely within 4th congressional district.
Apportionment history
When the 40-district legislative map was created in 1973, the 30th District was based in
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and Hudson counties. In consisted of the Ironbound neighborhood and a part of the North Ward of Newark and Belleville in Essex County, and
Harrison
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Secaucus
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Verona
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, and Cedar Grove, entirely in Essex County.
As the population began to shift away from the immediate suburbs of New Jersey cities in the 1980s, the 1991 Apportionment Commission using data collected from the 1990 Census eliminated the 30th District as it existed in Essex County and shifted it to the fast-growing areas of Burlington, Monmouth, and Ocean counties. The new 30th District created in 1991 consisted of northern corner of Burlington County including Pemberton
Borough
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and
Township
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and
Township
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, the four
panhandle
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Jackson
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, and Lakewood townships. Though unaffiliated voters make up most of the district, they tend to vote for the Republican candidates in this area and no Democrat has been elected to the 30th since it moved to this area. In the 2001 redistricting, municipalities in the Burlington County portion of the district were removed leaving only the ones on the edge of the county from Bordentown Township and Fieldsboro to New Hanover; Millstone Township was also removed. Added in this redistricting were Washington Township in Mercer County (renamed Robbinsville Township in 2007) and Monmouth's Howell Township and Farmingdale. The 2011 redistricting compacted the district to Lakewood, Wall, and Howell townships, and other shoreline boroughs. As a result of the district shift, incumbent Assemblyman Joseph R. Malone announced his retirement and incumbent 11th District Senator
Sean T. Kean
Sean T. Kean (born May 21, 1963) is an American Republican Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since being sworn into office on January 10, 2012, representing the 30th legislative district, Prior to redistricti ...
dropped down to running for an Assembly seat to avoid a
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Dave Rible
David P. Rible (born August 28, 1967) is an American Republican Party politician, who has served as Director of the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control since July 2017. He had previously served in the New Jersey General Assembly re ...
resigned his seat on July 17, 2017, to become Director of the
New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control
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. Former Wall Township Mayor
Ned Thomson
Edward H. "Ned" Thomson III (born 1953) is an American Republican Party politician who has represented the 30th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly since August 2017. He replaced Dave Rible, who left office to serve as Dire ...
was selected by local Republican committee members as a replacement from a ballot of three candidates, and was sworn in on August 24.