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New Jersey State Senate election">2001</a> →</td> </tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><hr />All 40 seats in the <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_State_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="New Jersey State Senate">New Jersey State Senate</a><br />21 seats needed for a majority</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr class="sr-only"> <th style="text-align:left;">  </th> <th style="text-align:center">Majority party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Minority party </th></tr> <tr> <td>  </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #E81B23;"> </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #3333FF;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Donald_DiFrancesco" title="Donald DiFrancesco">Donald DiFrancesco</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/John_A._Lynch_Jr." title="John A. Lynch Jr.">John A. Lynch Jr.</a><br /> (retired) </td></tr> <tr> <th style="width:75px;text-align:left">Party </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader's seat </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/22nd_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="22nd Legislative District (New Jersey)">22nd</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/17th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="17th Legislative District (New Jersey)">17th</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Last election </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>24</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">16 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats won </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>24</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">16 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seat change </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td></tr> </tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1997_New_Jersey_State_Senate_election.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/1997_New_Jersey_State_Senate_election.svg/158px-1997_New_Jersey_State_Senate_election.svg.png" decoding="async" width="158" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/1997_New_Jersey_State_Senate_election.svg/237px-1997_New_Jersey_State_Senate_election.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/1997_New_Jersey_State_Senate_election.svg/316px-1997_New_Jersey_State_Senate_election.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="669" data-file-height="1270" /></a></span><div>Results by district<br /><span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#92C5DE; color:#92C5DE;">    </span> Democratic hold</span> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#0671B0; color:#0671B0;">    </span> Democratic gain</span><br /><span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#F48882; color:#F48882;">    </span> Republican hold</span> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#CA0120; color:#CA0120;">    </span> Republican gain</span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width:50%; text-align:left;"><b>Senate President before election</b><br /> <p><a href="/wiki/Donald_DiFrancesco" title="Donald DiFrancesco">Donald DiFrancesco</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </p> </td> <td style="width:50%; text-align:right;"><b>Elected Senate President</b> <br /> <p><a href="/wiki/Donald_DiFrancesco" title="Donald DiFrancesco">Donald DiFrancesco</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The 1993 <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a> <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Senate" title="New Jersey Senate">State Senate</a> elections were held on November 4. </p><p>The election took place alongside <a href="/wiki/Christine_Todd_Whitman" title="Christine Todd Whitman">Christine Todd Whitman</a>'s re-election as Governor over Senator <a href="/wiki/Jim_McGreevey" title="Jim McGreevey">Jim McGreevey</a>. Republicans defended the large majority they gained in the 1991 landslide elections. </p><p>Four seats changed hands with no impact on the overall balance of power. Republicans <a href="/wiki/Anthony_R._Bucco" title="Anthony R. Bucco">Anthony R. Bucco</a> and <a href="/wiki/Diane_Allen" title="Diane Allen">Diane Allen</a> unseated incumbent <a href="/wiki/Gordon_MacInnes" title="Gordon MacInnes">Gordon MacInnes</a> and gained the seat of retiring Senator <a href="/wiki/Jack_Casey" title="Jack Casey">Jack Casey</a>, respectively. Democrats <a href="/wiki/Shirley_Turner" title="Shirley Turner">Shirley Turner</a> and <a href="/wiki/Garry_Furnari" title="Garry Furnari">Garry Furnari</a> unseated incumbent Republicans <a href="/wiki/Dick_LaRossa" title="Dick LaRossa">Dick LaRossa</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_P._Scott" title="John P. Scott">John P. Scott</a>, respectively. One Senator, Republican <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bubba" title="Joseph Bubba">Joseph Bubba</a>, lost a primary. His challenger, <a href="/wiki/Norman_M._Robertson" title="Norman M. Robertson">Norman M. Robertson</a>, held the seat for the Republicans. This remains the last time that Republicans won a Senate majority. </p> <table class="toc" id="toc" summary="Contents" style="width:50%"> <tbody><tr> <td align="center">Contents <br /><a href="/wiki/1997_New_Jersey_State_Senate_election#Incumbents_not_running_for_re-election" class="mw-redirect" title="1997 New Jersey State Senate election">Incumbents not running</a> • <a href="/wiki/1997_New_Jersey_State_Senate_election#Summary_of_results_by_State_Senate_district" class="mw-redirect" title="1997 New Jersey State Senate election">Summary of results</a><br />By District: <a href="/wiki/1997_New_Jersey_State_Senate_election#District_1" class="mw-redirect" title="1997 New Jersey State Senate election">1</a> • <a href="/wiki/1997_New_Jersey_State_Senate_election#District_2" class="mw-redirect" title="1997 New Jersey State Senate election">2</a> • <a href="/wiki/1997_New_Jersey_State_Senate_election#District_3" class="mw-redirect" title="1997 New Jersey State Senate election">3</a> • <a 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Democratic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Casey" title="Jack Casey">Jack Casey</a> (District 7)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_McGreevey" title="Jim McGreevey">Jim McGreevey</a> (District 17) (ran for Governor)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Republican">Republican</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Republican"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_H._Ewing" title="John H. Ewing">John H. Ewing</a> (District 16)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Summary_of_results_by_State_Senate_district">Summary of results by State Senate district</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Summary of results by State Senate district"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="sortable wikitable" style="font-size:95%;line-height:14px;"> <tbody><tr> <th>District </th> <th class="unsortable"><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a> </th> <th colspan="2">Party </th> <th class="unsortable">Elected Senator </th> <th colspan="2">Party </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1st_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="1st Legislative District (New Jersey)">1st Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/James_Cafiero" title="James Cafiero">James Cafiero</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>James Cafiero </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2nd_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="2nd Legislative District (New Jersey)">2nd Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Gormley" title="William Gormley">William Gormley</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>William Gormley </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey%27s_3rd_legislative_district" title="New Jersey's 3rd legislative district">3rd Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Zane" title="Raymond Zane">Raymond Zane</a> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td> <td>Raymond Zane </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/4th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="4th Legislative District (New Jersey)">4th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Matheussen" class="mw-redirect" title="John Matheussen">John Matheussen</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>John Matheussen </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/5th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="5th Legislative District (New Jersey)">5th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wayne_R._Bryant" title="Wayne R. Bryant">Wayne R. Bryant</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td> <td>Wayne R. Bryant </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/6th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="6th Legislative District (New Jersey)">6th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Adler" title="John Adler">John Adler</a> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td> <td>John Adler </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/7th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="7th Legislative District (New Jersey)">7th Legislative District</a> </td> <td style="background:#E9E9E9;"><a href="/wiki/Jack_Casey" title="Jack Casey">Jack Casey</a> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Diane_Allen" title="Diane Allen">Diane Allen</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/8th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="8th Legislative District (New Jersey)">8th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Martha_W._Bark" title="Martha W. Bark">Martha W. Bark</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>Martha W. Bark </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/9th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="9th Legislative District (New Jersey)">9th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Leonard_T._Connors" title="Leonard T. Connors">Leonard T. Connors</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>Leonard T. Connors </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/10th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="10th Legislative District (New Jersey)">10th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Andrew_R._Ciesla" title="Andrew R. Ciesla">Andrew R. Ciesla</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>Andrew R. Ciesla </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/11th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="11th Legislative District (New Jersey)">11th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Joseph_A._Palaia" title="Joseph A. Palaia">Joseph A. Palaia</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>Joseph A. Palaia </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/12th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="12th Legislative District (New Jersey)">12th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_O._Bennett" title="John O. Bennett">John O. Bennett</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>John O. Bennett </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/13th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="13th Legislative District (New Jersey)">13th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Joe_Kyrillos" title="Joe Kyrillos">Joe Kyrillos</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>Joe Kyrillos </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/14th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="14th Legislative District (New Jersey)">14th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Peter_Inverso" title="Peter Inverso">Peter Inverso</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>Peter Inverso </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/15th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="15th Legislative District (New Jersey)">15th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dick_LaRossa" title="Dick LaRossa">Dick LaRossa</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shirley_Turner" title="Shirley Turner">Shirley Turner</a> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/16th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="16th Legislative District (New Jersey)">16th Legislative District</a> </td> <td style="background:#E9E9E9;"><a href="/wiki/John_H._Ewing" title="John H. Ewing">John H. Ewing</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Walter_J._Kavanaugh" title="Walter J. Kavanaugh">Walter J. Kavanaugh</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/17th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="17th Legislative District (New Jersey)">17th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_A._Lynch_Jr." title="John A. Lynch Jr.">John A. Lynch Jr.</a> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td> <td>John A. Lynch Jr. </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/18th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="18th Legislative District (New Jersey)">18th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jack_Sinagra" title="Jack Sinagra">Jack Sinagra</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>Jack Sinagra </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/19th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="19th Legislative District (New Jersey)">19th Legislative District</a> </td> <td style="background:#E9E9E9;"><a href="/wiki/Jim_McGreevey" title="Jim McGreevey">Jim McGreevey</a> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Joe_Vitale_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Joe Vitale (politician)">Joe Vitale</a> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/20th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="20th Legislative District (New Jersey)">20th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Lesniak" title="Raymond Lesniak">Raymond Lesniak</a> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td> <td>Raymond Lesniak </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/21st_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="21st Legislative District (New Jersey)">21st Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/C._Louis_Bassano" title="C. Louis Bassano">C. Louis Bassano</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>C. Louis Bassano </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/22nd_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="22nd Legislative District (New Jersey)">22nd Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Donald_DiFrancesco" title="Donald DiFrancesco">Donald DiFrancesco</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>Donald DiFrancesco </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/23rd_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="23rd Legislative District (New Jersey)">23rd Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_E._Schluter" title="William E. Schluter">William E. Schluter</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>William E. Schluter </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/24th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="24th Legislative District (New Jersey)">24th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Littell_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Littell (politician)">Robert Littell</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>Robert Littell </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/25th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="25th Legislative District (New Jersey)">25th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gordon_MacInnes" title="Gordon MacInnes">Gordon MacInnes</a> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Anthony_R._Bucco" title="Anthony R. Bucco">Anthony Bucco</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/26th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="26th Legislative District (New Jersey)">26th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Martin_(New_Jersey_politician)" title="Robert Martin (New Jersey politician)">Robert Martin</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>Robert Martin </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/27th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="27th Legislative District (New Jersey)">27th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richard_Codey" title="Richard Codey">Richard Codey</a> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td> <td>Richard Codey </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/28th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="28th Legislative District (New Jersey)">28th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ronald_L._Rice" title="Ronald L. Rice">Ronald Rice</a> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td> <td>Ronald Rice </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/29th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="29th Legislative District (New Jersey)">29th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wynona_Lipman" title="Wynona Lipman">Wynona Lipman</a> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td> <td>Wynona Lipman </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey%27s_30th_legislative_district" title="New Jersey's 30th legislative district">30th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_W._Singer" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert W. Singer">Robert W. Singer</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>Robert W. Singer </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/31st_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="31st Legislative District (New Jersey)">31st Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Edward_T._O%27Connor_Jr." title="Edward T. O'Connor Jr.">Edward T. O'Connor Jr.</a> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td> <td>Edward T. O'Connor Jr. </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/32nd_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="32nd Legislative District (New Jersey)">32nd Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Sacco" title="Nicholas Sacco">Nicholas Sacco</a> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td> <td>Nicholas Sacco </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/33rd_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="33rd Legislative District (New Jersey)">33rd Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Kenny" title="Bernard Kenny">Bernard Kenny</a> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td> <td>Bernard Kenny </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/34th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="34th Legislative District (New Jersey)">34th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bubba" title="Joseph Bubba">Joseph Bubba</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Norman_M._Robertson" title="Norman M. Robertson">Norman M. Robertson</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/35th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="35th Legislative District (New Jersey)">35th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Girgenti" title="John Girgenti">John Girgenti</a> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td> <td>John Girgenti </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/36th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="36th Legislative District (New Jersey)">36th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_P._Scott" title="John P. Scott">John P. Scott</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Garry_Furnari" title="Garry Furnari">Garry Furnari</a> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/37th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="37th Legislative District (New Jersey)">37th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Byron_Baer" title="Byron Baer">Byron Baer</a> </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td> <td>Byron Baer </td> <td style="background:#3333FF;"> </td> <td>Dem </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/38th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="38th Legislative District (New Jersey)">38th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Louis_F._Kosco" title="Louis F. Kosco">Louis F. Kosco</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>Louis F. Kosco </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/39th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="39th Legislative District (New Jersey)">39th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Cardinale" title="Gerald Cardinale">Gerald Cardinale</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>Gerald Cardinale </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/40th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="40th Legislative District (New Jersey)">40th Legislative District</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Henry_McNamara" title="Henry McNamara">Henry McNamara</a> </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td> <td>Henry McNamara </td> <td style="background:#E81B23;"> </td> <td>Rep </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Close_races">Close races</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Close races"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Seats where the margin of victory was under 10%: </p> <ol><li><b><span style="color:red;">Legislative District 4, 4.6%</span></b></li> <li><b><span style="color:blue;">Legislative District 6, 8.0%</span></b></li> <li><b><span style="color:red;">Legislative District 7, 9.3%</span></b></li> <li><b><span style="color:red;">Legislative District 8, 9.8%</span></b></li> <li><b><span style="color:blue;">Legislative District 15, 7.8%</span> gain</b></li> <li><b><span style="color:blue;">Legislative District 36, 6.2%</span> gain</b></li></ol> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bryant was appointed to complete the unexpired term of Senator <a href="/wiki/Walter_Rand" title="Walter Rand">Walter Rand</a>, who died on January 6, 1995.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bark was appointed to complete the unexpired term of Senator <a href="/wiki/C._William_Haines" title="C. William Haines">C. William Haines</a>, who died on December 18, 1996.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_1">District 1</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: District 1"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Cafiero" title="James Cafiero">James Cafiero</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>35,573 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>60.8% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>1.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Rauh </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21,340 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36.5% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Geraldine Caiafa </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,579 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.7% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>58,492 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_2">District 2</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: District 2"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/William_Gormley" title="William Gormley">William Gormley</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>34,814 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>65.2% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>3.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">John R. Piatt </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,569 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.8% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>3.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>53,383 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_3">District 3</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: District 3"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Zane" title="Raymond Zane">Raymond Zane</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46,551 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>84.5% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>16.9 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Mary A. Whittam </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,121 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.7% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">N/A </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">415 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.8% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>31.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>55,087 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_4">District 4</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: District 4"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_J._Matheussen" title="John J. Matheussen">John J. Matheussen</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>29,429 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.7% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>3.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Sean_F._Dalton" title="Sean F. Dalton">Sean F. Dalton</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">26,780 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.1% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Jim Barber </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,872 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.2% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>58,081 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_5">District 5</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: District 5"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Wayne_R._Bryant" title="Wayne R. Bryant">Wayne R. Bryant</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>29,809 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>71.9 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>3.1 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Mel Suplee </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,624 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>3.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>41,433 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_6">District 6</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: District 6"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Adler" title="John Adler">John Adler</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>34,073 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.0% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>6.8 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_A._Rocco" title="John A. Rocco">John A. Rocco</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28,938 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45.0% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>4.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Kenneth L. Mayo </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,257 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.0% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>64,268 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_7">District 7</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: District 7"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Diane_Allen" title="Diane Allen">Diane Allen</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>30,875 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.7 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>5.5 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Robert P. Broderick </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25,501 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>6.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Norman E. Wahner </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,121 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>57,497 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_8">District 8</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: District 8"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Martha_W._Bark" title="Martha W. Bark">Martha W. Bark</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>34,597 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>54.9 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>6.1 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Marie Hall </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28,401 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>6.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>62,998 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_9">District 9</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: District 9"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Leonard_T._Connors" title="Leonard T. Connors">Leonard T. Connors</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>45,880 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>60.0 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>5.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Bill Zimmermann, Jr. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28,508 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>2.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Leonard P. Marshall </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,139 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>76,527 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_10">District 10</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: District 10"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Andrew_R._Ciesla" title="Andrew R. Ciesla">Andrew R. Ciesla</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>41,409 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>60.6 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>1.1 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Judith G. Leone </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24,217 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FED105; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States)" title="Libertarian Party (United States)">Libertarian</a> </td> <td class="fn">Steve Nagle </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,381 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Agnes A. James </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,015 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>1.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #17aa5c; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_the_United_States" title="Green Party of the United States">Green</a> </td> <td class="fn">Edith Gbur </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">278 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>68,300 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_11">District 11</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: District 11"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Joseph_A._Palaia" title="Joseph A. Palaia">Joseph A. Palaia</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>39,579 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>66.2 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Eugene M. LaVergne </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,981 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Christian P. Olsen </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,228 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>59,788 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_12">District 12</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: District 12"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_O._Bennett" title="John O. Bennett">John O. Bennett</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>41,171 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>62.8 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>2.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">George E. Ball </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,289 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">John P. Desmond </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,780 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>1.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: NavajoWhite; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Natural_Law_Party_(United_States)" title="Natural Law Party (United States)">Natural Law</a> </td> <td class="fn">Mary Jo Christian </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,354 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>65,594 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_13">District 13</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: District 13"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Joe_Kyrillos" title="Joe Kyrillos">Joe Kyrillos</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>36,047 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>63.2 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.8 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Mike Caffrey </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19,733 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>1.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Jerome Bowe </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,299 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>57,079 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_14">District 14</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: District 14"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Peter_Inverso" title="Peter Inverso">Peter Inverso</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>38,195 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>55.3 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>4.5 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Gilbert W. Lugossy </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28,866 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>1.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Joseph Fabrizi </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,997 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>69,058 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_15">District 15</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: District 15"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Shirley_Turner" title="Shirley Turner">Shirley Turner</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>29,995 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.9 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>6.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Dick_LaRossa" title="Dick LaRossa">Dick LaRossa</a> (incumbent) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25,630 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>6.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>55,625 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_16">District 16</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: District 16"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Walter_J._Kavanaugh" title="Walter J. Kavanaugh">Walter J. Kavanaugh</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>44,171 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>63.8 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>2.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Mitchell E. Ignatoff </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22,545 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>5.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Richard C. Martin </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,541 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>69,257 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_17">District 17</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: District 17"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_A._Lynch_Jr." title="John A. Lynch Jr.">John A. Lynch Jr.</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>27,748 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>68.0 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>11.3 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Timothy J. O’Brien </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,061 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>2.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>40,809 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_18">District 18</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: District 18"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Jack_Sinagra" title="Jack Sinagra">Jack Sinagra</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>35,400 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>58.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.3 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_H._Paterniti" title="Thomas H. Paterniti">Thomas H. Paterniti</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25,110 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>1.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>60,510 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_19">District 19</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: District 19"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Joe_Vitale_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Joe Vitale (politician)">Joe Vitale</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>32,454 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>60.2 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>12.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Stephen_A._Mikulak" title="Stephen A. Mikulak">Stephen A. Mikulak</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21,445 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>5.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>53,899 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_20">District 20</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: District 20"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Lesniak" title="Raymond Lesniak">Raymond Lesniak</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>26,699 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>69.1 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>9.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Gene Andre </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,928 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>9.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>38,627 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_21">District 21</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: District 21"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/C._Louis_Bassano" title="C. Louis Bassano">C. Louis Bassano</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>43,997 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>35.7 </b> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>43,997 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_22">District 22</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: District 22"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Donald_DiFrancesco" title="Donald DiFrancesco">Donald DiFrancesco</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46,249 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>67.0 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>2.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Margaret Ault </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,962 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Frank J. Festa, Jr. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,778 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>68,989 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_23">District 23</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: District 23"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/William_E._Schluter" title="William E. Schluter">William E. Schluter</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>42,221 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>61.3 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>30.4 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Austin “Ken” Kutscher, M.D. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">23,094 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Michael P. Kelly </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,770 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Daniel Z. Seyler </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">762 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>68,847 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_24">District 24</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: District 24"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Robert_Littell_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Littell (politician)">Robert Littell</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>44,342 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>73.0 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>10.3 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">John G. Wingler </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,551 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ron Pondiscio </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,868 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>60,761 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_25">District 25</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: District 25"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Anthony_R._Bucco" title="Anthony R. Bucco">Anthony R. Bucco</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>37,048 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>54.8 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>5.1 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Gordon_MacInnes" title="Gordon MacInnes">Gordon MacInnes</a> (incumbent) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29,515 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>6.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Joseph Long </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,033 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>67,596 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_26">District 26</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: District 26"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Robert_Martin_(New_Jersey_politician)" title="Robert Martin (New Jersey politician)">Robert Martin</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>43,994 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>92.6 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>23.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Virginia P. Bauer </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,505 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>47,499 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_27">District 27</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: District 27"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Codey" title="Richard Codey">Richard Codey</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>35,770 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>79.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>4.4 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Richard R. Klattenberg </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,250 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>4.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>45,020 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_28">District 28</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: District 28"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ronald_L._Rice" title="Ronald L. Rice">Ronald Rice</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>31,069 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.0 </b> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>31,069 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_29">District 29</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: District 29"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Wynona_Lipman" title="Wynona Lipman">Wynona Lipman</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>27,480 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>86.7 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>13.3 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Elaine L. Guarino </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,226 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>31,706 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_30">District 30</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: District 30"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Robert_Singer_(American_politician)" title="Robert Singer (American politician)">Robert Singer</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>27,837 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.7 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>12.0 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Kenneth A. Kurtz </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,815 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>5.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FED105; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States)" title="Libertarian Party (United States)">Libertarian</a> </td> <td class="fn">Bob Mondgock </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,932 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Fred Rasiewicz </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,208 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>51,792 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_31">District 31</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: District 31"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Edward_T._O%27Connor_Jr." title="Edward T. O'Connor Jr.">Edward T. O'Connor Jr.</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>30,993 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>77.6 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>9.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Richard Freda </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,935 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>9.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>39,928 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_32">District 32</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: District 32"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Sacco" title="Nicholas Sacco">Nicholas Sacco</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>29,386 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>66.7 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>7.4 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Pluchino </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,541 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>8.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px">Politicians Are Crooks </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Herbert_H._Shaw" title="Herbert H. Shaw">Herbert H. Shaw</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,569 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Pat Armstrong </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">532 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>44,028 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_33">District 33</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: District 33"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Kenny" title="Bernard Kenny">Bernard Kenny</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>27,914 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>72.6% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>9.3 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Gerald Spike </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,517 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">27.4% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>8.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>38,431 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_34">District 34</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: District 34"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Republican_primary">Republican primary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Republican primary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption>1997 Republican primary<sup id="cite_ref-primary_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-primary-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Norman_M._Robertson" title="Norman M. Robertson">Norman M. Robertson</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>6,203 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>66.0% </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bubba" title="Joseph Bubba">Joseph Bubba</a> (incumbent) </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,202 </td> <td style="text-align:right">34.0% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>56,451 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_election">General election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: General election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Norman_M._Robertson" title="Norman M. Robertson">Norman M. Robertson</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>30,450 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.9% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>1.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Joan Waks </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">26,001 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.1% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>1.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>56,451 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_35">District 35</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: District 35"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Girgenti" title="John Girgenti">John Girgenti</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>24,552 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>69.8 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>3.3 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Brian A. Duncan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,644 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>1.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>35,196 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_36">District 36</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: District 36"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Garry_Furnari" title="Garry Furnari">Garry Furnari</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>25,844 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.1% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>6.0 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_P._Scott" title="John P. Scott">John P. Scott</a> (incumbent) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22,806 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.9% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>6.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>48,650 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_37">District 37</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: District 37"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Byron_Baer" title="Byron Baer">Byron Baer</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>30,844 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>59.0 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>1.5 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Steve_Lonegan" title="Steve Lonegan">Steve Lonegan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,543 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>1.7 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: NavajoWhite; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Natural_Law_Party_(United_States)" title="Natural Law Party (United States)">Natural Law</a> </td> <td class="fn">Helen Hamilton </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">855 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>52,242 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_38">District 38</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: District 38"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Louis_F._Kosco" title="Louis F. Kosco">Louis F. Kosco</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>30,538 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>55.2% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>8.1 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Valerie_Huttle" title="Valerie Huttle">Valerie Huttle</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">23,350 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.2% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>5.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Denise A. Richardson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,390 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.5% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>55,278 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_39">District 39</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: District 39"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen2_4-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Cardinale" title="Gerald Cardinale">Gerald Cardinale</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46,424 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>66.3 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>3.8 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ilan Plawker </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22,466 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>5.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF8C00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Conservative_Party" title="New Jersey Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Michael W. Koontz </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,166 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>70,056 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="District_40">District 40</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: District 40"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1997 general election<sup id="cite_ref-1997resultsSen_3-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997resultsSen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Henry_McNamara" title="Henry McNamara">Henry McNamara</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>42,751 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>67.5% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Michael Greenspan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,537 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32.5% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>63,288 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_New_Jersey_Senate_election&action=edit&section=48" 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