NJ-Gov: Primary Results Thread

RESULTS: Associated Press (county-by-county results available here)

10:04PM (David): Thanks to diligent work and zero ganja breaks over at the New Jersey Board of Elections, the AP is now able to call the race for Chris Christie. Good luck, Mr. Corzine.

9:57PM (David): 53% of precincts are in, and Christie is up 55-42. In other words, Lonegan now has to do better than Christie has all night to eke out a win. Maybe Jon Corzine should have spent $10 mil on the GOP primary.

9:42PM: 2885 precincts in, and Christie has upped his lead to nearly 22K votes, but the percentage spread is still the same: 56-41. Corzine’s scraped his way up to 80%.

9:15PM: 1651 precincts in, and Christie is ahead by 56-41… or just under 13,000 votes. Corzine back up to 79%.

9:00PM: With 922 precincts under our belt, Christie’s lead has dropped ever-so-slightly to 57-40. Corzine at 76%.

8:45PM: 361 precincts now complete, and Christie is looking fairly comfortable at 59-39. Corzine’s up to 80%.

8:34PM: 139 precincts reporting (of 6302), and Christie is ahead, but by a slightly tighter margin: 60-38. Corzine’s at 79%.

8:11PM ET: Chris Christie has the very early lead in the GOP primary over Steven Lonegan with just a wheelbarrow-full of votes counted: 62%-35%. Anyone care to guess what share of the vote Jon Corzine will end up with against his three no-name challengers?

39 thoughts on “NJ-Gov: Primary Results Thread”

  1. I can’t imagine this will hold, but Christie (68%) is actually getting a higher share of the vote than Corzine (66%) at the moment.

  2. Corzine is a good guy but his fortune and the negative press due to the economy and personal mishaps over the last few years is really killing him. I hope he pulls it out and if a I get out of poor student status i’ll donate a bit.  

  3. a very partisan speech:

    [T]he only thing Republicans have delivered is the longest, deepest economic recession in 80 years …

    I ask … why would we want to go back to the same falled policies that created this crisis in the first place?

    Now we all know, there is much at stake in this election.

    New Jersey Democrats believe that America is stronger because of its diversity.

    We’re proud that our state has always welcomed immigrants … and we know they enrich our lives and our culture.

    We trust women to make their own

    health care decisions …

    We believe that government should allow people the freedom to marry whomever they love …

    While we believe in the right to bear arms … we do think that buying one gun a month should suffice.

    Our opponents disagree.

    They say that government should be small …

    Small enough to slip under your bedroom door.

    Small enough to root for a new president to fail …

    Narrow enough to divide us by gender and ethnicity over a Supreme Court nominee …

    Self-righteous enough to dictate their own religious beliefs to the rest of us …

    on stem cell research … family planning … and even science curricula.

    We must be bigger than that.

    Our party is black … white … brown …

    all colors …

    We’re a Charles Bibbs painting.

    We believe the American promise is for everyone.

    Yes … we live in challenging times …

    But I have never been more hopeful or optimistic …

    History shows we get through challenging times if we work hard and make the right choices.

    Over the next 153 days, I’m going to make it clear to New Jersey my fighting spirit … fighting for you … and believe me … I’ve been a fighter all my life.

    As the son of a struggling farm family, I know what it’s like to be on the long end of a shovel.

    I spent my college summers pushing concrete as a construction laborer …

    I know what it’s like to be toughened by basic training in the Marine Corps.

    I’m proud to have served my country in uniform … and I respect all who do.

    I know what it’s like to survive a near-fatal accident … and fear that I might spend the rest of my life impaired and miss watching my grandchildren grow up.

    I remember waking up in Cooper Hospital after eleven days in a coma and seeing my three kids, my brother, and the woman I love at my bedside.

    I knew then … and there … I would walk out of that hospital.

    Tonight, I feel just as confident.

    We will win this fall’s election!

  5. Living in New Jersey I know Governor Corzine very well and how he campaigns. This speech he gave tonight is so far as I can say the greatest speech and most enthusiastic speech I have heard him give. And did you see all those equality signs. Makes me proud to live in Jersey. Corzine 2009!  

  7. From the Star Ledger:

    Kate Whitman, 32, the daughter of former Gov. Christie Whitman, lost a three-way race in today’s Republican primary for two seats on the Peapack-Gladstone borough council.

    In the Republican bastion, a win in the primary is tantamount to winning a seat in the general elecitons. No Democrats were on the ballot.

    In what the town clerk called an unusually high turnout in the small borough for a primary election, Whitman received 302 votes. The winners were incumbent Michael Seboria, 357 votes, and Katherine Howes, the highest vote-getter with a tally of 361.

  10. it looks like the ganja breaks occurred in Camden, Salem, and Warren Counties. No results yet for the first two, and Warren stopped reporting after getting 16/90 precincts in.

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