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1987 general · October 24, 1987

1987 New Jersey State Senate election results, district by district

Every New Jersey State Senate district in the 1987 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 24 · R 16
Races40
Changed party1
Unopposed12%5 races
Incumbents defeated1

Every district

D 24 · R 16

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
LD-1James R. Hurley (R)6.9
LD-2William L. Gormley (R)46.8
LD-3Raymond J. Zane (D)26.0
LD-4Daniel J. Dalton (D)17.8
LD-5Walter Rand (D)36.7
LD-6Lee B. Laskin (R)6.3
LD-7Catherine A. Costa (D)26.7
LD-8C. William Haines (R)33.1
LD-9Leonard T. Connors Jr. (R)28.0
LD-10John F. Russo (D)16.7
LD-11Frank Pallone (D)20.2
LD-12S. Thomas Gagliano (R)35.2
LD-13Richard Vanwagner (D)1.9
LD-14Francis J. McManimon (D)28.4
LD-15Gerald Stockman (D)42.1
LD-16John H. Ewing (R)41.5
LD-17John A. Lynch (D)26.8
LD-18Thomas H. Paterniti (D)18.3FlippedIncumbent lost
LD-19Laurence S. Weiss (D)16.7
LD-20Raymond Lesniak (D)Unopposed
LD-21C. Louis Bassano (R)7.5
LD-22Donald Difrancesco (R)34.9
LD-23Richard Zimmer (R)Unopposed
LD-24Wayne Dumont Jr. (R)Unopposed
LD-25John H. Dorsey (R)5.4
LD-26Leanna Brown (R)48.2
LD-27Richard J. Codey (D)52.8
LD-28Ronald L. Rice (D)54.5
LD-29Wynona M. Lipman (D)Unopposed
LD-30Carmen A. Orechio (D)6.0
LD-31Edward T. Oconnor Jr. (D)56.2
LD-32Thomas F. Cowan Sr. (D)33.9
LD-33Christopher J. Jackman (D)22.1
LD-34Joseph Bubba (R)7.8
LD-35Frank X. Graves Jr. (D)Unopposed
LD-36Gabriel M. Ambrosio (D)2.3
LD-37Matthew Feldman (D)33.2
LD-38Paul Contillo (D)5.3
LD-39Gerald Cardinale (R)34.2
LD-40Henry P. McNamara (R)43.9

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