The Green Papers: Off Year Election 2001
New Jersey
Primary (Polls close 8PM EDT): Tuesday, June 26, 2001 General Election (Polls close 8PM EST): Tuesday, November 6, 2001 |
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Governor Term limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, Current Governors | |||||
Democrat | Governor James E. ["Jim"] McGreevey First elected: 2001 Chair up for election: Tuesday, November 8, 2005. (The current Governor is NOT affected by this state's term limit). | ||||
Green | Jerry L. Coleman listed on ballot under "Nomination By Petition" as "Independent" | ||||
Libertarian | Mark Edgerton listed on ballot under "Nomination By Petition" as "Independent" | ||||
Conservative | Michael W. Koontz listed on ballot under "Nomination By Petition" as "Independent" | ||||
Democrat | James E. ["Jim"] McGreevey Unofficial final results-- 26 June 2001 DEMOCRAT primary: James E. "Jim" McGreevey 228,604 [95.16%]; Elliot Greenspan 11,628 [4.84%] | ||||
Socialist | Costantino Rozzo listed on ballot under "Nomination By Petition" as "Independent" | ||||
Socialist Workers | Kari Sachs listed on ballot under "Nomination By Petition" as "Independent" | ||||
Independent | Bill Schluter listed on ballot under "Nomination By Petition" as "Independent" | ||||
Republican | Bret Schundler Unofficial final results--26 June 2001 REPUBLICAN Primary: Bret Schundler 190,728 [57.44%]; Bob Franks 141,313 [42.56%] | ||||
Independent | George Watson, Jr. listed on ballot under "Nomination By Petition" as "Independent"; slogan: "Free New Jersey" | ||||
NOTE:It appears as if the candidate for Governor of New Jersey who wins in the 6 November 2001 General Election is eligible to take office as Governor as early as when this victorious candidate has been declared elected-- per the State Constitution: In the event of a vacancy in the office of Governor... the functions, powers, duties and emoluments of the office shall devolve upon the President of the Senate, for the time being... until a new Governor shall be elected and qualify [Article V, Section 1, 6] Governor Christine Todd Whitman resigned to become "ADMINISTRATOR, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY" in the Bush Administration. Since NJ has no Lieutenant Governor, Republican State Senate President Donald T. DiFrancesco is the "acting Governor"; Mr. DiFrancesco retains his seat in the State Senate and still presides over that body, notwithstanding his also being the acting chief executive of the State. 23 April 2001: Primary date moved to 26 June 2001. 25 April 2001: acting Governor DiFrancesco, then the "regular Republican"(=party-endorsed) candidate for the NJ GOP Gubernatorial nomination, drops out of that race re: questions over his political ethics. 26 April 2001: former Congressman Bob Franks, who had lost the race for the Class 1 U.S. Senate seat from New Jersey to Democrat Jon Corzine the previous November, formally replaces acting Governor DiFrancesco as the "regular Republican" (=party-endorsed) candidate in the Gubernatorial Primary in an attempt to thwart the GOP Gubernatorial nomination bid of the more conservative outgoing Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler 26 June 2001: Franks, the stand-in for acting Governor DiFrancesco as the "regular Republican" in this date's GOP Gubernatorial Primary, loses the Republican nomination for Governor to Mayor Schundler. | |||||
Senate 6-year term, Current Senate Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Class 1 | Democrat | Senator Jon Corzine First elected: 2000 Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 7, 2006. | |||
Class 2 | Democrat | Senator Robert G. Torricelli First elected: 1996 Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002. | |||
Republican | (pending) 2001 November 21: Essex County executive James W. Treffinger | ||||
House of Representatives 2 year term, Current House | |||||
Partisan Composition: 7 Democrats, 6 Republicans | |||||
CD 1 | Democrat | Congressman Robert E. Andrews Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002. | |||
CD 2 | Republican | Congressman Frank A. LoBiondo Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002. | |||
CD 3 | Republican | Congressman Jim Saxton Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002. | |||
CD 4 | Republican | Congressman Christopher H. Smith Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002. | |||
CD 5 | Republican | Congressman Marge Roukema Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002. 7 November 2001: Marge Roukema announces she will retire at the end of this term. | |||
CD 6 | Democrat | Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002. | |||
CD 7 | Republican | Congressman Mike Ferguson Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002. | |||
CD 8 | Democrat | Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002. | |||
CD 9 | Democrat | Congressman Steven R. Rothman Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002. | |||
CD 10 | Democrat | Congressman Donald M. Payne Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002. | |||
CD 11 | Republican | Congressman Rodney P. Frelinghuysen Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002. | |||
CD 12 | Democrat | Congressman Rush Holt Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002. | |||
CD 13 | Democrat | Congressman Robert Menendez Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002. |
Congressional District | |||
New Jersey has 21 counties and 13 congressional districts: 7 counties are wholly within a given congressional district; 14 counties are divided among more than one congressional district. In the State of New Jersey, the General Law County Subdivision is the Township; however, there are also the following types of Municipalities: Cities, Towns, Boroughs and Villages. Under New Jersey law, Townships and Municipalities are equivalent- the Townships have the same general powers as any Municipality while Municipalities are completely separate from the Township(s) from which they were once created: therefore, all Townships and Municipalities are Minor Civil Divisions of the first order in New Jersey and, because of this, Townships are often referred to as "Municipalities" in lists of local governmental units, while Municipalities are often referred to as "Townships" (particularly in court records and other legal documents). To make matters even more confusing, the type of local governmental unit may not necessarily reflect the type of local government it actually has (e.g., there are Townships with "Town Government", etc.). To avoid any such confusion in the listing of the Congressional Districts re: the Minor Civil Divisions/local governmental units of New Jersey below, no reference will be made to the type of Municipality/Township unless there are two or more such units in a given County with the same- or a similar- name: CD # 1:
Haddon Township (CAMDEN COUNTY) is split between CDs # 1 and # 3. CD # 2:
CD # 3:
Dover Township (OCEAN COUNTY) is split between CDs # 3 and # 4. CD # 4:
Spring Lake Heights Boro (MONMOUTH COUNTY) is split between CDs # 4 and # 6. CD # 5:
Fair Lawn Boro (BERGEN COUNTY) is split between CDs # 5 and # 9. CD # 6:
Edison Township (MIDDLESEX COUNTY) is split between CDs # 6 and # 7. CD # 7:
Maplewood Township (ESSEX COUNTY) is split between CDs # 7, # 8 and # 10. CD # 8:
Montclair Town-Township (ESSEX COUNTY) is split between CDs # 8 and # 10. CD # 9:
the City of Jersey City (HUDSON COUNTY) is split between CDs # 9, # 10 and # 13. CD # 10:
the City of Newark (ESSEX COUNTY) is split between CDs # 10 and # 13. CD # 11:
CD # 12:
CD # 13:
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