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1991 general · October 19, 1991

1991 New Jersey election results

Every race on New Jersey's ballot in the 1991 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

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Races80
Changed party12
Unopposed1%1 races
Incumbents defeated17

New Jersey State Senate

D 13 · R 27 · 12 changed party

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
LD-1James S. Cafiero (R)23.9
LD-2William L. Gormley (R)6.6
LD-3Raymond J. Zane (D)29.0
LD-4John Matheussen (R)3.4Flipped
LD-5Walter Rand (D)34.2
LD-6John H. Adler (D)10.8FlippedIncumbent lost
LD-7Bradford S. Smith (R)7.2Flipped
LD-8C. William Haines (R)32.7
LD-9Leonard T. Connors Jr. (R)39.9
LD-10Andrew R. Ciesla (R)23.2Flipped
LD-11Joseph A. Palaia (R)35.2
LD-12John O. Bennett (R)39.4
LD-13Joe Kyrillos Jr. (R)35.5Flipped
LD-14Peter Inverso (R)17.7FlippedIncumbent lost
LD-15Dick Larossa (R)1.8FlippedIncumbent lost
LD-16John H. Ewing (R)36.9
LD-17John A. Lynch (D)4.1
LD-18Jack Sinagra (R)7.0Flipped
LD-19Randy Corman (R)11.2FlippedIncumbent lost
LD-20Raymond Lesniak (D)14.1
LD-21C. Louis Bassano (R)43.2
LD-22Donald Difrancesco (R)56.4
LD-23William E. Schluter (R)44.8
LD-24Robert E. Littel (R)57.6
LD-25John H. Dorsey (R)43.3
LD-26Leanna Brown (R)56.3
LD-27Richard J. Codey (D)36.2
LD-28Ronald L. Rice (D)37.3
LD-29Wynona M. Lipman (D)Unopposed
LD-30John E. Dimon (R)30.0Flipped
LD-31Edward T. Oconnor Jr. (D)10.3
LD-32Thomas F. Cowan Sr. (D)17.7
LD-33Robert Menendez (D)37.8
LD-34Joseph Bubba (R)17.5
LD-35John A. Girgenti (D)6.4
LD-36John P. Scott (R)4.1Flipped
LD-37Matthew Feldman (D)7.2
LD-38Louis F. Kosco (R)14.3FlippedIncumbent lost
LD-39Gerald Cardinale (R)33.9
LD-40Henry P. McNamara (R)51.0

New Jersey General Assembly

D 22 · R 58

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
LD-1Frank A. Lobiondo · John C. Gibson (R)7.4
LD-2John F. Gaffney · Fredrick P. Nickles (R)0.5Incumbent lost
LD-3Jack Collins · Gary W. Stuhltrager (R)8.9
LD-4Mary Virginia Weber · George F. Geist (R)0.4Incumbent lost
LD-5Wayne R. Bryant · Joseph J. Roberts Jr. (D)13.4
LD-6John A. Rocco · Lee A. Solomon (R)6.2
LD-7Priscilla B. Anderson · Jose F. Sosa (R)2.0Incumbent lost
LD-8Robert C. Shinn · Harold L. Colburn (R)14.3
LD-9Christopher J. Connors · Jeffrey W. Moran (R)19.1
LD-10Virginia Haines · David W. Wolfe (R)11.7Incumbent lost
LD-11Tom Smith · Steven J. Corodemus (R)3.1Incumbent lost
LD-12Michael J. Arnone · Clare M. Farragher (R)15.6
LD-13Joann H. Smith · Joseph Azzolina (R)12.5
LD-14Paul Kramer · Barbara Wright (R)7.4Incumbent lost
LD-15John Hartmann · John S. Watson (REP)0.2Incumbent lost
LD-16Walter J. Kavanaugh · John S. Penn (R)18.0
LD-17Bob Smith · Jerry Green (D)1.9
LD-18Harriet Derman · Jeff Warsh (R)7.2Incumbent lost
LD-19Stephen A. Mikulak · Ernest L. Oros (R)3.6Incumbent lost
LD-20George Hudak · Tom Dunn (D)1.6
LD-21Maureen Ogden · Monroe Jay Lustbader (R)12.7Incumbent lost
LD-22Bob Franks · Richard H. Bagger (R)25.0
LD-23Garabed Haytaian · Leonard Lance (R)14.9
LD-24Scott Garrett · Dick Kamin (R)22.7
LD-25Rodney P. Frelinghuysen · Arthur R. Albohn (R)19.5
LD-26Robert J. Martin · Alex Decroce (R)25.5
LD-27Stephanie R. Bush · Robert Brown (D)15.9
LD-28Harry McEnroe · James Zangari (D)16.9
LD-29Willie B. Brown · Jackie R. Mattison (D)22.1
LD-30Bob Singer · Melvin Cottrell (R)16.8
LD-31Joseph V. Doria Jr. · Joseph Charles Jr. (D)7.0
LD-32Anthony Impreveduto · David C. Kronick (D)7.2
LD-33Bernard F. Kenny Jr. · Louis A. Romano (D)18.0
LD-34Gerald Zecker · Marion Crecco (R)18.2
LD-35Bill Pascrell, Jr. · Frank Catania (DEM)1.0
LD-36John V. Kelly · Paul Digaetano (R)9.2Incumbent lost
LD-37D. Bennett Mazur · Byron Baer (D)3.0
LD-38Patrick J. Roma · Rose Marie Heck (R)8.8Incumbent lost
LD-39Charlotte Vandervalk · John Rooney (R)21.4
LD-40Nicholas R. Felice · David C. Russo (R)25.0

New Jersey

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