The Green Papers: New Jersey 2004 General Election
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Primary: Tuesday 8 June 2004
General Election: Tuesday 2 November 2004
Electoral Votes:15(2.79% of 538)
Governor:1 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 2)
2002-2010 Representatives:13(2.99% of 435)
2000 Census:8,424,354 (2.99% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):6,245,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):4,710,768
Capital:Trenton
Tuesday 8 June 2004 polls close 8:00p EDT (0000 UTC)
Tuesday 2 November 2004 polls close 8:00p EST (0100 UTC)
 

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New Jersey State and Local Government

New Jersey 2004 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions: Democrats   Republicans   Third Parties


NEW JERSEY State Senate President Richard J. Codey (Democrat) officially became acting Governor of the State at Midnight Eastern Standard Time (0500 UTC), Tuesday 16 November 2004, replacing Governor James E. "Jim" McGreevey (Democrat) whose resignation- announced this past August- formally took effect at that hour. Acting Governor Codey had already taken the Oath of Office over the preceding weekend.

 
           

President  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2000, 2004. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime. Electors: 15 (Winner-take-all), How Appointed, Meeting Place, Duly Appointed Presidential Electors. List of States: Details.
Up for election in 2004
  Elected Democrat 1,911,430 52.92% Senator John Kerry
(15 Electoral Votes)
Vice President: Senator John Edwards
  Candidate Republican 1,670,003 46.24% President George W. Bush
Vice President: Vice President Richard "Dick" Cheney
Renominated by Convention - 2 September 2004
  Candidate Independent 19,418 0.54% Ralph Nader
Vice President Peter Miguel Camejo
Slogan: Independent
  Candidate Independent 4,514 0.12% Michael Badnarik
Vice President Richard Campagna
Slogan: Libertarian Party
  Candidate Independent 2,750 0.08% Michael Anthony Peroutka
Vice President: Chuck Baldwin
Slogan: Constitution Party
  Candidate Independent 1,807 0.05% David Keith Cobb
Vice President: Patricia La Marche
Slogan: Green Party
  Candidate Independent 664 0.02% Walter F. Brown
Vice President: Mary Alice Herbert
Slogan: Socialist Party USA
  Candidate Independent 575 0.02% Bill Van Auken
Vice President: Jim Lawrence
Slogan: Socialist Equality Party
  Candidate Independent 530 0.01% Roger Calero
Vice President: Arrin Hawkins
Slogan: Socialist Workers Party
Roger Calero is constitutionally ineligible for the office of President because he is not a U.S. Citizen (Article II, Section 1, U.S. Constitution).
Total 3,611,691 100.00%  

U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 108th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes

Class 1   Democrat   Senator Jon Corzine
First elected: 2000
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Class 2   Democrat   Senator Frank Lautenberg
First elected: 2002
Previously served in the Class 1 NJ Senate seat to which he was first elected: 1982 and re-elected: 1988, 1994-- was not a candidate for his Party's nomination for the Class 1 seat in 2000
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2001, 2005. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors

    Democrat   Governor Richard James Codey
Became acting Governor 15 November 2004 upon the resignation of Governor James E. "Jim" McGreevey
Chair up for election: Tuesday 8 November 2005
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.
  Candidate Democrat     (pending)
U.S. Senator Jon Corzine formally announced his candidacy, 2 December 2004;
another likely candidate is acting Governor Richard Codey
  Candidate Republican     (Douglas Forrester - pending)
 

Democratic Governor McGreevey resigned 15 November 2004.

In an emotional press conference at the State House in Trenton, held on the afternoon of 12 August 2004- only days after his 47th Birthday, Governor James E. "Jim" McGreevey (D-New Jersey) announced his resignation from that office effective 15 November 2004, on which date State Senate President Richard James Codey (D-Essex County, NJ) will become "acting Governor" (New Jersey being one of the few States in the Union without a Lieutenant Governor). The reason the Garden State Governor gave for his resignation was his desire to keep his office from being adversely affected by his sexual preference, also publicly acknowledged by the Governor for the first time at this same press conference.

The date of McGreevey's resignation is evidently so timed as to allow for a smooth post-General Election transition (though the New Jersey Governor's office would not normally be up for election until November 2005, there are elections for Members of Congress and, of course, the American Presidential Election this coming 2 November, all with major ramifications for politicians within the Governor's Party) but, at the same time, to take care of a rather arcane bit of New Jersey succession law. Had Governor McGreevey's resignation taken effect prior to this coming 16 September, there would have had to be a Special Election to fill out the remaining year or so of his term (which ends in mid-January 2006); by resigning after that date, State Senator Codey can- once McGreevey's resignation takes effect- serve as "acting Governor" for the remainder of McGreevey's term without an intervening election for that office other than the one regularly scheduled for November 2005.

This will be the second time in only four years that a State Senate President will have become "acting Governor" of New Jersey in the wake of a Gubernatorial resignation. In early 2001, Governor Christie Whitman resigned to become then-newly inaugurated President George W. Bush's first Enviromental Protection Agency head, after which then-State Senate President Donald DiFrancesco (R- Union County, NJ) served almost all the remainder of Whitman's four-year term. The last week of that term was finished up alternately by then-co-State Senate Presidents Codey and John Bennett (R-Monmouth County, NJ) because a newly elected Legislature (with an evenly divided State Senate) took office just before McGreevey was inaugurated as Governor.

Governor McGreevey was elected in 2001.


Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2009, 2013. Office created effective with the Gubernatorial Election of 2009. Elected on same ticket with GOVERNOR; following his/her nomination, the Gubernatorial candidate has 30 days to select a running mate.

108th U.S. House of Representatives  2 year term, Election Cycle 2004, 2006. No Term Limit. 108th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
7 Democrats (7 Renominated);
6 Republicans (6 Renominated)

CD 1
Seat up for election
  Democrat   Congressman Robert E. Andrews
• Re-elected Tuesday 2 November 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004
Renominated - 8 June 2004 Primary
  Elected Democrat 201,163 75.00% Congressman Robert E. Andrews
  Candidate Republican 66,109 24.65% S. Daniel Hutchison
  Candidate Independent 931 0.35% Arturo Fulvio Croce
Slogan: E Pluribus Unum
Total 268,203 100.00%  

CD 2
Seat up for election
  Republican   Congressman Frank A. LoBiondo
• Re-elected Tuesday 2 November 2004
First elected: 1994
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004
Renominated - 8 June 2004 Primary
  Elected Republican 172,779 65.09% Congressman Frank A. LoBiondo
  Candidate Democrat 86,792 32.70% Timothy J. Robb
  Candidate Independent 1,993 0.75% Willie Norwood
Slogan: Jobs Equality Business
  Candidate Independent 1,767 0.67% Michael J. Matthews, Jr.
Slogan: Libertarian Party
  Candidate Independent 1,516 0.57% Jose David Alcantara
Slogan: Green Party
  Candidate Independent 595 0.22% Costantino Rozzo
Slogan: Socialist Party USA
Total 265,442 100.00%  

CD 3
Seat up for election
  Republican   Congressman Jim Saxton
• Re-elected Tuesday 2 November 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004
Renominated - 8 June 2004 Primary
  Elected Republican 195,938 63.44% Congressman Jim Saxton
  Candidate Democrat 107,034 34.65% Herb Conaway
  Candidate Independent 4,914 1.59% R. Edward Forchion
Slogan: U.S. Marijuana Party
  Candidate Independent 976 0.32% Frank Orland
Slogan: Libertarian Party
Total 308,862 100.00%  

CD 4
Seat up for election
  Republican   Congressman Christopher H. Smith
• Re-elected Tuesday 2 November 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004
Renominated - 8 June 2004 Primary
  Elected Republican 192,671 67.00% Congressman Christopher H. Smith
  Candidate Democrat 92,826 32.28% Amy Vasquez
  Candidate Independent 2,056 0.71% Richard Edgar
Slogan: Libertarian Party
Total 287,553 100.00%  

CD 5
Seat up for election
  Republican   Congressman Scott Garrett
• Re-elected Tuesday 2 November 2004
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004
Renominated - 8 June 2004 Primary
  Elected Republican 171,220 57.57% Congressman Scott Garrett
  Candidate Democrat 122,259 41.11% Dorothea Anne Wolfe
  Candidate Independent 1,857 0.62% Victor Kaplan
Slogan: Libertarian Party
  Candidate Independent 1,515 0.51% Thomas A. Phelan
Slogan: NJ Conservative Party
  Candidate Independent 574 0.19% Gregory Pason
Slogan: Socialist Party USA
Total 297,425 100.00%  

CD 6
Seat up for election
  Democrat   Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr.
• Re-elected Tuesday 2 November 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004
Renominated - 8 June 2004 Primary
  Elected Democrat 153,981 66.90% Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr.
  Candidate Republican 70,942 30.82% Sylvester Fernandez
  Candidate Independent 2,829 1.23% Virginia A. Flynn
Slogan: Libertarian Party
  Candidate Independent 2,399 1.04% Mac Dara F.X. Lyden
Slogans: Help Middlesex Residents, Help Monmouth Residents, Help Somerset Residents, Help Union Residents
Total 230,151 100.00%  

CD 7
Seat up for election
  Republican   Congressman Mike Ferguson
• Re-elected Tuesday 2 November 2004
First elected: 2000
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004
Renominated - 8 June 2004 Primary
  Elected Republican 162,597 56.88% Congressman Mike Ferguson
  Candidate Democrat 119,081 41.66% Steve Brozak
  Candidate Independent 2,153 0.75% Thomas D. Abrams
Slogan: Libertarian Party
  Candidate Independent 2,016 0.71% Matthew Angus Williams
No Slogan Requested
Total 285,847 100.00%  

CD 8
Seat up for election
  Democrat   Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr.
• Re-elected Tuesday 2 November 2004
First elected: 1996
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004
Renominated - 8 June 2004 Primary
  Elected Democrat 152,001 69.46% Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr.
  Candidate Republican 62,747 28.68% George Ajjan
  Candidate Independent 4,072 1.86% Joseph A. Fortunato
Slogan: The Green Party
Total 218,820 100.00%  

CD 9
Seat up for election
  Democrat   Congressman Steven R. Rothman
• Re-elected Tuesday 2 November 2004
First elected: 1996
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004
Renominated - 8 June 2004 Primary
  Elected Democrat 146,038 67.53% Congressman Steven R. Rothman
  Candidate Republican 68,564 31.71% Edward Trawinski
  Candidate Independent 1,649 0.76% David Daly
Slogan: Libertarian Party
Total 216,251 100.00%  

CD 10
Seat up for election
  Democrat   Congressman Donald M. Payne
• Re-elected Tuesday 2 November 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004
Renominated - 8 June 2004 Primary
  Elected Democrat 155,697 96.88% Congressman Donald M. Payne
  Candidate Independent 2,927 1.82% Toy-Ling Washington
Slogan: The Green Party
  Candidate Independent 2,089 1.30% Sara J. Lobman
Slogan: Socialist Workers Party
Total 160,713 100.00%  

CD 11
Seat up for election
  Republican   Congressman Rodney P. Frelinghuysen
• Re-elected Tuesday 2 November 2004
First elected: 1994
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004
Renominated - 8 June 2004 Primary
  Elected Republican 200,915 67.88% Congressman Rodney P. Frelinghuysen
  Candidate Democrat 91,811 31.02% James W. Buell
  Candidate Independent 1,746 0.59% John Mele
Slogan: Immigration Moratorium Now
  Candidate Independent 1,530 0.52% Austin S. Lett
Slogan: Libertarian Party
Total 296,002 100.00%  

CD 12
Seat up for election
  Democrat   Congressman Rush Holt
• Re-elected Tuesday 2 November 2004
First elected: 1998
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004
Renominated - 8 June 2004 Primary
  Elected Democrat 171,691 59.25% Congressman Rush Holt
  Candidate Republican 115,014 39.69% Bill Spadea
  Candidate Independent 1,562 0.54% Ken Chazotte
Slogan: Libertarian Party
  Candidate Independent 1,518 0.52% Daryl M. Brooks
Slogan: The Green Party
Total 289,785 100.00%  

CD 13
Seat up for election
  Democrat   Congressman Robert "Bob" Menendez
• Re-elected Tuesday 2 November 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004
Renominated - 8 June 2004 Primary
  Elected Democrat 121,018 75.85% Congressman Robert "Bob" Menendez
  Candidate Republican 35,288 22.12% Richard W. Piatkowski
  Candidate Independent 1,282 0.80% Dick Hester
Slogan: Pro Life Conservative
  Candidate Independent 1,066 0.67% Herbert H. Shaw
Slogan: Politicos son Corruptos
  Candidate Independent 887 0.56% Angela L. Lariscy
Slogan: Socialist Workers Party
Total 159,541 100.00%  

 


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