Gloucester County Primary Election Results

With a majority of uncontested races on the ballots, there were absolutely no surprises in the Gloucester County primary elections held Tuesday.

Even with only 9 percent of registered Democrats voting in the elections to the 17 percent of registered Republicans, the Democratic vote still narrowly eclipsed that of GOP.

With 229 districts reporting, here are the unofficial results, as provided by the Gloucester County Office of Elections.

TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE
West Deptford Republican primary candidates Jeff Hansen (449 votes, 50.23 percent) and Gerald P. Maher (443, 49.55 percent) split the 894 votes in their race nearly evenly.

Democratic candidates  (485 votes, 50.1 percent) and Adam Reid (479, 49.48 percent) split the 968 votes cast in their primary race, with 4 write-ins.

Both parties will run their top two candidates in November for the two committee seats vacated by current committeepersons Donna Szymborski (D) and Sean Kilpatrick (R). 

GOVERNOR
The county went heavily pro-Christie, with 91.36 percent (5,712 votes) of Republicans voting to return the incumbent Chris Christie to the ballot in November. 

Challenger Seth Grossman landed 528 votes (8.45 percent) with 12 write-ins among the 6,252 Republican votes cast in the county.

Underdog Troy Webster fared slightly better in the Democratic camp, picking up 617 of his party's primary votes (10.86 percent), but 18th district New Jersey State Senator Barbara Buono took the lion's share.

Buono netted 4,976, or 87.61 percent of the 5,680 Democratic votes cast in the county, 87 of which (1.53 percent) were write-ins.

STATE SENATE
Both parties' candidates in the Third Legislative District ran uncontested.

Incumbent New Jersey State Senator (and West Deptford native) Stephen M. Sweeney took 2,490 votes (99.2 percent, with 20 write-ins) and will face Republican Niki Trunk, Deputy Chief of Staff for the state comptroller's office (2,079 votes; 99.81 percent with 4 write-ins) in the fall.

STATE ASSEMBLY
The Third District New Jersey State Assembly primary candidates also ran uncontested.

Third District Republican hopefuls Larry Wallace (2,146, 50.26 percent) and Bob Vanderslice (2,115, 49.53 percent) split the vote nearly exactly down the middle, with 9 write-ins among the 4,270 Republican votes cast in that race.

They'll face Democratic incumbents John Burzichelli (2,509, 50.50 percent) and Celeste Riley (2,451, 49.34 percent) with 8 write-ins among the 4,968 Democratic votes cast.

GLOUCESTER COUNTY FREEHOLDER
All primary candidates on the county freeholder tickets also ran uncontested.

Republicans Vincent Nestore (incumbent) and Ed Selb split the 11,335 votes cast in their primary races, with Nestore taking 5,717 (50.44 percent) and Selb garnering 5,596 (49.37 percent) with 22 write-in votes.

They'll square off against Democrats Frank DiMarco (incumbent), who took home 5,640 (50.99 percent) votes and Dan Christy (5,400, 48.78percent) of the 11,0711 votes cast in their primary race (26 write-ins).

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