2015 New Jersey General Assembly election

2015 New Jersey General Assembly election

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All 80 seats in the New Jersey General Assembly
41 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Vincent Prieto Jon Bramnick
Party Democratic Republican
Leader since January 14, 2014 January 17, 2012
Leader's seat 32nd (Secaucus) 21st (Westfield)
Last election 48 32
Seats won 52 28
Seat change Increase 4 Decrease 4
Popular vote 1,111,320 958,085
Percentage 53.3% 45.9%
Swing Increase 4.6% Decrease 4.8%

Results:
     Democratic hold      Democratic gain
     Republican hold

Speaker before election

Vincent Prieto
Democratic

Elected Speaker

Vincent Prieto
Democratic

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. At the time of the general election, there were two vacancies: One in the 5th District resulting from Democrat Angel Fuentes's resignation on June 30, 2015, and one in the 24th District resulting from Republican Alison Littell McHose's resignation on October 17, 2015.

Ultimately four Democrats defeated four incumbent Republicans leading to the Democrats controlling 52 of 80 seats in the 2016–17 Assembly session, the highest percentage they held since 1979.[1] Democrats flipped both seats in the 11th district, and one each in the 16th and the 1st.

  1. ^ Johnson, Brent (November 3, 2015). "Democrats win their largest N.J. Assembly majority in 37 years". NJ Advance Media for NJ.com. Retrieved December 2, 2015.