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1983 general · June 21, 1983

1983 New Jersey State Senate election results, district by district

Every New Jersey State Senate district in the 1983 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 40 seats

After the electionD 23 · R 17
Races40
Changed party0
Unopposed0%0 races
Incumbents defeated4

Every district

D 23 · R 17

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
LD-1James R. Hurley (R)19.7
LD-2William L. Gormley (R)15.8
LD-3Raymond J. Zane (D)26.0
LD-4Daniel J. Dalton (D)27.8
LD-5Walter Rand (D)32.0
LD-6Lee B. Laskin (R)26.7
LD-7Catherine A. Costa (D)26.2
LD-8H. James Saxton (R)26.1
LD-9Leonard T. Connors Jr. (R)26.6
LD-10John F. Russo (D)26.7
LD-11Frank Pallone (D)1.9Incumbent lost
LD-12S. Thomas Gagliano (R)1.8
LD-13Richard Vanwagner (D)8.2Incumbent lost
LD-14Francis J. McManimon (D)27.0
LD-15Gerald Stockman (D)34.7
LD-16John H. Ewing (R)34.8
LD-17John A. Lynch (D)30.7
LD-18Peter P. Garibaldi (R)1.1Incumbent lost
LD-19Laurence S. Weiss (D)18.1
LD-20Raymond Lesniak (D)31.6
LD-21C. Louis Bassano (R)1.0
LD-22Donald Difrancesco (R)33.1
LD-23Walter E. Foran (R)38.5
LD-24Wayne Dumont Jr. (R)51.3
LD-25John H. Dorsey (R)30.7
LD-26Leanna Brown (R)36.4
LD-27Richard J. Codey (D)50.5
LD-28John P. Caufield (D)45.8
LD-29Wynona M. Lipman (D)71.1
LD-30Carmen A. Orechio (D)9.6
LD-31Edward T. Oconnor Jr. (D)61.5
LD-32Thomas F. Cowan Sr. (D)31.3
LD-33Christopher J. Jackman (D)33.0
LD-34Joseph Bubba (R)2.1
LD-35Frank X. Graves Jr. (D)48.7
LD-36Joseph Hirkala (D)16.7
LD-37Matthew Feldman (D)28.6
LD-38Paul Contillo (D)1.3Incumbent lost
LD-39Gerald Cardinale (R)2.4
LD-40Garrett W. Hagedorn (R)31.0

New Jersey State Senate

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner