Incumbents Sweep South Jersey Legislative Races

Incumbents coasted to victory in many of South Jersey’s legislative races Tuesday, according to results provided by the Associated Press to NJ.com.

In our region, the unofficial results were as follows (some districts did not have 100 percent of precincts reporting at press time):

Third Legislative District

State Senate
Stephen Sweeney (incumbent) (D) — 30,551 (55 percent)
Niki Trunk (R) — 25,411 (45)

Assembly
John Burzichelli (incumbent) (D) — 30,587 (28 percent)
Celeste Riley (incumbent) (D) — 29,383 (27)
Larry Wallace (R) — 24,910 (23)
Bob Vanderslice (R) — (23)

Fourth Legislative District (99 percent of precincts reporting)

State Senate
Fred Madden (incumbent) (D) — 28,523 (58 percent)
Giancarlo D’Orazio (R) — 20,812 (42)

Assembly
Paul Moriarty (incumbent) (D) — 27,616 (29 percent)
Gabriela Mosquera (incumbent) (D) — 26,226 (27)
Philip Dieser (R) — 21,138 (22)
Theodore Liddell (R) — 20,439 (21)

Sixth Legislative District (97 percent of precincts reporting)

State Senate
James Beach (incumbent) (D) — 33,240 (63 percent)
Sudhir Deshmukh (R) — 19,317 (37)

Assembly
Louis Greenwald (incumbent) (D) — 31,694 (31 percent)
Pamela Lampitt (incumbent) (D) — 29,911 (29)
Chris Leone-Zwillinger (R) — 21,304 (20)
George Fisher (R) — 20,539 (20)

Seventh Legislative District

State Senate
Diane Allen (incumbent) (R) — 35,534 (61 percent)
Gary Catrambone (D) — 22,713 (39)

Assembly
Herb Conaway (incumbent) (D) — 31,689 (27 percent)
Troy Singleton (incumbent) (D) — 31,494 (27)
Anthony Ogozalek (R) — 27,074 (23)
Jeff Banasz (R) — 25,367 (22)