RepublicanNot in office · last served 2007Last on a ballot: Nov 2003

Joseph A. Palaia

Last held office: New Jersey State Senate, District 11 (1989–2007). Ran in 10 elections between 1981 and 2003, winning 10.

Source: Wikidata, congress-legislators and Open States; 99chambers legislative records

Career

Offices held, and every time Palaia was on a ballot. Filled marks are general elections won; hollow marks are primaries; an orange outline is a loss.

Margin: how far Palaia finished ahead of (+) or behind (−) the runner-up.

Year	Office	Stage	Result	Opponents	Share	Margin
2003	New Jersey State Senate, District 11	General	Won	Paul X. Escandon (D), Brian Unger (G), Emerson Ellett (L)	58.7%	R+31.3
2001	New Jersey State Senate, District 11	General	Won	Maureen Orourke (D)	62%	R+24.1
1997	New Jersey State Senate, District 11	General	Won	Eugene M. Lavergne (D), Christian P. Olsen (I)	66.2%	R+34.5
1993	New Jersey State Senate, District 11	General	Won	Richard C. Schwartz (D), Thomas Appleby (I), Barbara A. Jones (L)	65.6%	R+34.6
1991	New Jersey State Senate, District 11	General	Won	Gloria R. Filippone (D), Thomas W. Abbleby Jr. (I), Joshua Leinsdorf (I)	65.2%	R+35.2
1989	New Jersey State Senate, District 11	Special	Won	John Damico (D), Joshua Leinsdorf (I)	51.3%	R+3.6
1987	New Jersey General Assembly, District 11	General	Won	Anthony M. Villane Jr. (R), John Damico Jr. (D), Joseph Quinn (D)	28.1%	R+0.3
1985	New Jersey General Assembly, District 11	General	Won	Anthony M. Villane Jr. (R), Craig Alan Frankel (D), Daniel P. Jacobson (D)	34.4%	R+0.3
1983	New Jersey General Assembly, District 11	General	Won	Anthony M. Villane Jr. (R), Martin S. Chomsky (D), Cornelius V. Kelly (D)	29.3%	R+0.1
1981	New Jersey General Assembly, District 11	General	Won	Anthony M. Villane Jr. (R), Joan Kiernan (D), John P. Clancy (D)	29.2%	D+1.4