{"id":18137,"date":"2025-11-07T01:14:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=18137"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:17:59","slug":"island-political-roundup-election-favored-incumbents-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2025\/11\/island-political-roundup-election-favored-incumbents-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Political Roundup: Election Favored Incumbents, Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Polling location directional sign in Normandy Beach (Photo by Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n

There was not much in the way of surprises on the barrier island in this year\u2019s municipal elections, with incumbents and Republican nominees garnering the majority of votes. Here\u2019s how the results turned out town-by-town, and who islanders voted for in the county and statewide elections. Winners are italicized.<\/p>\n

Lavallette:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael Stogdill (Incumbent\/Republican): 834 Votes<\/em>
\nGeorge Shenewolf (Appointed Incumbent\/Republican): 705 Votes<\/em>
\nKaren Lamb (Independent): 412 Votes
\nNo Democrat Candidates<\/p>\n

Seaside Heights:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard Tompkins (Incumbent\/Republican): 447 Votes<\/em>
\nVito Ferrone (Incumbent\/Republican): 431 Votes<\/em>
\nWrite-Ins: 14
\nNo Democrat Candidates<\/p>\n

Seaside Park:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joseph Toth\u00a0(Newcomer\/Republican): 639 Votes
\nGina Condos (Incumbent\/Republican): 629 Votes
\n<\/em>Kathleen Spadafino (Newcomer\/Democrat): 271 Votes
\nThomas Joseph (Newcomer\/Democrat): 259 Votes<\/p>\n

Ortley Beach\/North Beaches (Toms River Ward 1):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert Bianchini (Newcomer\/Republican): 6,338 Votes
\n<\/em>Anthony Colucci (Newcomer\/Democrat): 3,471 Votes<\/p>\n

Governor\u2019s Race (Countywide):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jack Ciattarelli (R): 183,219 (County Preference)
\nMikie Sherrill (D): 88,945 (Statewide Winner)<\/em><\/p>\n

Ocean County Sheriff (Countywide):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael Mastronardy (R): 180,349<\/em>
\nRegina Discenza (D): 79,298<\/p>\n

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There was not much in the way of surprises on the barrier island in this year\u2019s municipal elections, with incumbents and Republican nominees garnering the majority of votes. Here\u2019s how the results turned out town-by-town, and who islanders voted for in the county and statewide elections. Winners are italicized. Lavallette: Michael Stogdill (Incumbent\/Republican): 834 Votes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[2894,1959,29,20,32],"class_list":["post-18137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ocean-county","tag-election-2025","tag-featured","tag-lavallette-nj-news","tag-seaside-heights-nj-news","tag-seaside-park-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pollingplace.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-4Ix","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18138,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137\/revisions\/18138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}