2013 New Jersey General Assembly election
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November 5, 2013
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All 80 seats in the New Jersey General Assembly 41 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 40%[1] ( 13pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 48 seats while the Republicans won 32 seats.
Democrats flipped one seat in the 2nd district and Republicans flipped one in the 1st district, leaving the balance of power unchanged at 48–32, despite Democrats losing the popular vote. This remains the last election in which the party that won control of the General Assembly did not win a majority of votes.
Democratic
- Peter J. Barnes III, District 18 (ran for State Senate)
- Alberto Coutinho, District 29 (resigned September 11)
- Ruben Ramos, District 33 (ran for mayor of Hoboken)
- Sean Connors, District 33
- Connie Wagner, District 38 (lost party support for renomination)
Republican
Overall results
Summary of the November 5, 2013, New Jersey General Assembly election results:[3]
| 48 | 32 |
| Democratic | Republican |
| Parties | Candidates | Seats | Popular Vote | ||||||
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| 2011 | 2013 | +/- | Strength | Vote | % | Change | |||
| Democratic | 78 | 48 | 48 |  |
60% | 1,828,078 | 48.7% | 0.0% | |
| Republican | 80 | 32 | 32 | |
40% | 1,907,361 | 50.8% | 0.0% | |
| Green | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
0% | 796 | 0.02% | 0.0% | |
| Libertarian | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
0% | 1,677 | 0.04% | 0.0% | |
| Independent | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
0% | 17,451 | 0.4% | 0.0% | |
| Total | 166 | 80 | 80 | 0 | 100.0% | 3,755,363 | 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 38, 0.4%
- District 2, 0.44% Gain D
- District 1, 0.8%% Gain R
- District 27, 1.8%
- District 14, 7.4%
- District 18, 6.6%
- District 3, 9.8%