1913 New Jersey gubernatorial election

1913 New Jersey gubernatorial election

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Nominee James Fairman Fielder Edward C. Stokes Everett Colby
Party Democratic Republican Progressive
Popular vote 173,148 140,298 41,132
Percentage 46.1% 37.4% 11.0%

County results
Fielder:      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%
Stokes:      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%

Governor before election

Leon Rutherford Taylor (acting)
Democratic

Elected Governor

James Fairman Fielder
Democratic

The 1913 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1913. Democratic acting Governor James Fairman Fielder, who resigned a week before the election so that he could succeed himself, defeated Republican former Governor Edward C. Stokes and Progressive former state senator Everett Colby.

The state's first-ever direct primary elections for governor were held on September 23,[1] though the contests were largely uneventful. For the Democratic nomination, Fielder defeated former Trenton mayor Frank S. Katzenbach, making his third run for governor. Stokes easily topped a four-man field in the Republican Party, including former U.S. Representative Charles N. Fowler, whom he had defeated in the 1910 primary for U.S. Senate. The Progressive primary was closest, with Colby defeating Montclair industrialist Edmund Burke Osborne by 29 percent of the vote.

  1. ^ "Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey". M.R. Dennis & Co. 1914: 194. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)