The 2019 Elections for New Jersey's General Assembly was held on November 5, 2019. All 80 seats in the
Assembly
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were up for election. The candidates that won in November will be part of the
219th New Jersey Legislature
The 219th New Jersey Legislature began on January 14, 2020, following the 2019 elections for Assembly, and one special election for Senate. It ended on January 11, 2022.
Background
Elections will be held in November 2019 for all 80 seats in the ...
.
All 80 seats of the
New Jersey General Assembly
The New Jersey General Assembly is the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature.
Since the election of 1967 (1968 Session), the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts f ...
were up for election. Democrats held a 54–26 supermajority in the lower house prior to the election. The members of the
New Jersey Legislature
The New Jersey Legislature is the legislative branch of the government of the U.S. state of New Jersey. In its current form, as defined by the New Jersey Constitution of 1947, the Legislature consists of two houses: the General Assembly and th ...
are chosen from 40 electoral districts. Each district elects one State Senator and two State Assembly members. New Jersey uses coterminous legislative districts for both its
State Senate
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and
General Assembly
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Specific examples of general assembly include:
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* General Assembly (presbyterian church), the highest court of pres ...
.
Going into the 2019 election, every legislative district was represented by two Assembly members of the same party.
Incumbents not running for re-election
Democratic
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Patricia Egan Jones
Patricia Egan Jones is an American Democratic Party politician who represented the 5th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly since she was sworn into office on November 9, 2015, until her retirement in January 2020.
Early li ...
,
District 5 District 5, 5 District or 5th District may refer to:
Europe
* District 5 (Zürich)
* District 5, Düsseldorf
* V District, Turku
* District 5, an electoral district of Malta
* District 5, a police district of Malta
* Palma-Palmilla, also know ...
Republican
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Michael Patrick Carroll
Michael Patrick Carroll (born April 8, 1958) is an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey. He represented the 25th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly, first taking office in 1996. Carroll did not run for re- ...
,
District 25
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(running for
Morris County Surrogate)
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Amy Handlin
Amy H. Handlin (born January 28, 1956) is an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly, where she represented the 13th Legislative District from 2006 to 2020.
Education and career
Handlin earned a ...
,
District 13
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David W. Wolfe
David W. Wolfe (born October 11, 1942) is an American Republican Party (United States), Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1992 until 2020, where he represented the New Jersey's 10th legislative distri ...
,
District 10 District 10 may refer to:
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* District 10 (Zürich), in Switzerland
* District 10, an electoral district of Malta
* District 10, a police district of Malta
* District 10 School, a historic school in ...
Overall results
Summary of results by district
Close races
Districts where the difference of total votes between the top-two parties was under 10%:
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List of races
Voters in each legislative district elect two members to the
New Jersey General Assembly
The New Jersey General Assembly is the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature.
Since the election of 1967 (1968 Session), the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts f ...
.
District 1
District 2
District 3
District 4
District 5
District 6
District 7
District 8
District 9
District 10
District 11
District 12
District 13
District 14
District 15
District 16
District 17
District 18
District 19
District 20
District 21
District 22
District 23
District 24
District 25
District 26
District 27
District 28
District 29
District 30
District 31
District 32
District 33
District 34
District 35
District 36
District 37
District 38
District 39
District 40
See also
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2019 United States elections
The 2019 United States elections were held, in large part, on Tuesday, November 5, 2019. This off-year election included gubernatorial elections in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi; regularly-scheduled state legislative elections in Louisian ...
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2019 New Jersey elections
A general election was held in the U.S. state of New Jersey on November 5, 2019. Primary elections were held on June 4. The only state positions that were up in this election cycle were all 80 seats in the New Jersey General Assembly and one Sen ...
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References
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General Assembly
A general assembly or general meeting is a meeting of all the members of an organization or shareholders of a company.
Specific examples of general assembly include:
Churches
* General Assembly (presbyterian church), the highest court of pres ...
New Jersey General Assembly elections
New Jersey General Assembly
The New Jersey General Assembly is the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature.
Since the election of 1967 (1968 Session), the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts f ...