{"id":8670,"date":"2016-06-07T19:23:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T23:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=8670"},"modified":"2016-06-07T22:29:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T02:29:38","slug":"2016-new-jersey-primary-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/06\/2016-new-jersey-primary-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 New Jersey Primary Election Results"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Ocean County, N.J. polling place sign. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Republican and Democrat voters\u00a0in New Jersey cast their ballots for either Donald Trump, John Kasich and Ted Cruz, or Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, respectively.<\/p>\n

While the state\u2019s third congressional district race (which includes all of Shorebeat\u2019s coverage area) was unopposed on the GOP side, voters on the Democratic side were faced with a choice of party-backed Jim Keady or Frederick John LaVergne, who was running under the Ocean Anti-Corruption Democrats banner. LaVergne was the party-backed candidate in Burlington County\u2019s portion of the district.<\/p>\n

Likewise, this year\u2019s county freeholder race was unopposed on the GOP side \u2013 incumbents Jack Kelly and Virginia Haines are up for re-election \u2013 and heavily contested on the Democratic side. Party-backed candidates Michael D. Cooke and Ed Wolff were facing off against Ocean Anti-Corruption Democrats Scott Neuman and Tracy Caprioni, as well as Robyn Gedrich and Joni Brennan, who were running under the \u201cBernie Sanders\u201d banner.<\/p>\n

Below are two automatically-updated vote tallies for the presidential race (by county) and congressional races by our partners at NJ Spotlight. Local race results will appear below.<\/p>\n