2011 New Jersey General Assembly election
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November 8, 2011
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All 80 seats in the New Jersey General Assembly 41 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 27%[1] ( 20pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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All 80 seats in the General Assembly were up for election this year. In each Legislative district, there are two people elected; the top two winners in the general election are the ones sent to the Assembly. Typically, the two members of each party run as a team in each election. After the previous election, Democrats captured 47 seats while the Republicans won 33 seats. These were the first elections to be held after the 2010 redistricting cycle.
Democrats gained one seat, by flipping a seat in the 4th district, which they had only lost two years prior.
Democratic
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- Jack Conners, District 7
- Joan M. Quigley, District 32
- Caridad Rodriguez, District 33
- Elease Evans, District 35
- Nellie Pou, District 35 (ran for State Senate)
- Kevin J. Ryan, District 36
- Joan Voss, District 38 (ran for Bergen County Freeholder)
Republican
- Vincent J. Polistina, District 2 (ran for State Senate)
- Patrick Delany, District 8
- James Holzapfel, District 10 (ran for State Senate)
- Samuel D. Thompson, District 13 (ran for State Senate)
Predictions
| Source | Ranking | As of |
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| Ballotpedia[3] | Lean D | October 31, 2011 |
Overall results
Summary of the November 8, 2011 New Jersey General Assembly election results:[4]
| 48 | 32 |
| Democratic | Republican |
| Parties | Candidates | Seats | Popular Vote | ||||||
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| 2009 | 2011 | +/- | Strength | Vote | % | Change | |||
| Democratic | 80 | 47 | 48 |  1 |
60% | 1,339,201 | 51.2% |  0.0% | |
| Republican | 79 | 33 | 32 | 1 |
40% | 1,253,824 | 48.0% | 0.0% | |
| Green | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
0% | 2,284 | 0.1% | 0.0% | |
| Libertarian | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
0% | 3,692 | 0.1% | 0.0% | |
| Independent | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
0% | 15,310 | 0.6% | 0.0% | |
| Total | 176 | 80 | 80 | 0 | 100.0% | 2,614,311 | 100.0% | - | |
Summary of results by district
Close races
Districts where the difference of total votes between the top-two parties was under 10%:
- District 7, 3.6%
- District 1, 5.6%%
- District 16, 6.0%
- District 11, 6.4%
- District 3, 9.2%