| Election Name: | 2015 New Jersey General Assembly election |
| Country: | New Jersey |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2013 New Jersey General Assembly election |
| Previous Year: | 2013 |
| Next Election: | 2017 New Jersey General Assembly election |
| Next Year: | 2017 |
| Seats For Election: | All 80 seats in the New Jersey General Assembly |
| Majority Seats: | 41 |
| Election Date: | November 3, 2015 |
| Leader1: | Vincent Prieto |
| Swing1: | 4.6% |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Leader Since1: | January 14, 2014 |
| Leaders Seat1: | 32nd (Secaucus) |
| Last Election1: | 48 |
| Seats1: | 52 |
| Seat Change1: | 4 |
| Popular Vote1: | 1,111,320 |
| Percentage1: | 53.3% |
| Leader2: | Jon Bramnick |
| Swing2: | 4.8% |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Leader Since2: | January 17, 2012 |
| Leaders Seat2: | 21st (Westfield) |
| Last Election2: | 32 |
| Seats2: | 28 |
| Seat Change2: | 4 |
| Popular Vote2: | 958,085 |
| Percentage2: | 45.9% |
| Map Size: | 400px |
| Speaker | |
| Before Election: | Vincent Prieto |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Vincent Prieto |
| After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
All 80 seats in the General Assembly were up for election this year. In each Legislative district, there are two people elected; the top two winners in the general election are the ones sent to the Assembly. Typically, the two members of each party run as a team in each election. After the previous election, Democrats captured 48 seats while the Republicans won 32 seats. At the time of the general election, there were two vacancies: One in the 5th District resulting from Democrat Angel Fuentes's resignation on June 30, 2015, and one in the 24th District resulting from Republican Alison Littell McHose's resignation on October 17, 2015.
Ultimately four Democrats defeated four incumbent Republicans leading to the Democrats controlling 52 of 80 seats in the 2016–17 Assembly session, the highest percentage they held since 1979.[1] Democrats flipped both seats in the 11th district, and one each in the 16th and the 1st.
Summary of the November 3, 2015 New Jersey General Assembly election results:
| 52 | 28 | |
| Democratic | Republican |
| Parties | Candidates | Seats | Popular Vote | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center | 2013 | align=center | 2015 | align=center | +/- | align=center | Strength | align=center | Vote | align=center | % | align=center | Change | |||||
| Democratic | align=right | 78 | align=right | 48 | align=right | 52 | align=right | 4 | align=right | 65% | align=right | 1,111,320 | align=right | 53.3% | align=right | 0.0% | ||
| Republican | align=right | 79 | align=right | 32 | align=right | 28 | align=right | 4 | align=right | 35% | align=right | 958,085 | align=right | 45.9% | align=right | 0.0% | ||
| Green | align=right | 8 | align=right | 0 | align=right | 0 | align=right | align=right | 0% | align=right | 8,643 | align=right | 0.4% | align=right | 0.0% | |||
| Libertarian | align=right | 2 | align=right | 0 | align=right | 0 | align=right | align=right | 0% | align=right | 1,180 | align=right | 0.1% | align=right | 0.0% | |||
| Independent | align=right | 8 | align=right | 0 | align=right | 0 | align=right | align=right | 0% | align=right | 6,891 | align=right | 0.3% | align=right | 0.0% | |||
| align=center colspan="2" | Total | align=center | 175 | align=center | 80 | align=center | 80 | align=center | 0 | align=center | 100.0% | align=center | 2,086,119 | align=center | 100.0% | align=center | - |
Districts where the difference of total votes between the top-two parties was under 10%:
| align=center | District 1 • District 2 • District 3 • District 4 • District 5 • District 6 • District 7 • District 8 • District 9 • District 10 • District 11 • District 12 • District 13 • District 14 • District 15 • District 16 • District 17 • District 18 • District 19 • District 20 • District 21 • District 22 • District 23 • District 24 • District 25 • District 26 • District 27 • District 28 • District 29 • District 30 • District 31 • District 32 • District 33 • District 34 • District 35 • District 36 • District 37 • District 38 • District 39 • District 40 |
See also: 1st Legislative District (New Jersey). |- style="background-color:#F6F6F6" ! style="background-color: #3333FF" | | colspan="6" | One Democratic gain from Republican|-
See also: 2nd Legislative District (New Jersey). |- style="background-color:#F6F6F6" ! style="background-color: white" | | colspan="6" | One Democratic and one Republican hold|-
See also: 3rd Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 4th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 5th Legislative District (New Jersey). Incumbent Angel Fuentes originally ran in the Democratic primary but withdrew his candidacy in June 2015 when he became a deputy county clerk in Camden County.[3] Fuentes and Marianne Holly Cass were replaced on the Democratic ballot by Arthur Barclay and Pat Jones[4] and Ralph Williams was replaced by Keith Walker on the Republican ticket.[5] [6]
See also: 6th Legislative District (New Jersey).
Robert Esposito originally won a spot on the Republican ticket in the general election but was replaced on the ballot by Claire Gustafson.[5] [6]
See also: 7th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 8th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 9th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 10th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 11th Legislative District (New Jersey). |- style="background-color:#F6F6F6" ! style="background-color: #3333FF" | | colspan="6" | Two Democratic gains from Republican|-
See also: 12th Legislative District (New Jersey).
Anthony Washington originally won a spot on the Democratic ticket in the general election but was replaced on the ballot by Robert P. Kurzydlowski.[5] [6]
See also: 13th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 14th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 15th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 16th Legislative District (New Jersey).
On election night, the returns initially showed incumbent Republican Donna Simon ahead of Democrat Andrew Zwicker. That night, Zwicker delivered a concession speech though later returns that night put him ahead of Simon.[7] After all provisional ballots were counted in the four counties comprising the district, Simon conceded on November 16.[8] Zwicker is the first Democrat to ever represent the 16th legislative district.
|- style="background-color:#FFFFFF" ! style="background-color: #3333FF" | | colspan="6" | One Republican hold, one Democratic gain from Republican|-
See also: 17th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 18th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 19th Legislative District (New Jersey).
Reyes Ortega originally won a spot on the Republican ticket in the general election but was replaced on the ballot by Jesus Varela.[5] [6]
See also: 20th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 21st Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 22nd Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 23rd Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 24th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 25th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 26th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 27th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 28th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 29th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 30th Legislative District (New Jersey).
Jimmy Esposito originally won a spot on the Democratic ticket in the general election but was replaced on the ballot by Lorna Phillipson.[5] [6]
See also: 31st Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 32nd Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 33rd Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 34th Legislative District (New Jersey).
Louis Rodriguez originally won a spot on the Republican ticket in the general election but withdrew his candidacy from the general election due to a federal job.[5] [6] [9]
See also: 35th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 36th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 37th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 38th Legislative District (New Jersey).
Anthony Cappola initially dropped out of the race on October 1 following the discovery of a controversial satirical book entitled Outrageous! written by Cappola.[10] Bergen County Republicans picked attorney Fernando Alonso to replace Cappola on the ballot pending the allowance of the replacement candidate on the ballot.[11] The Republicans unexpectedly dropped the effort to have the candidate replaced on October 13 and Cappola later announced his intention to continue in the race.[12] [13]
See also: 39th Legislative District (New Jersey).
See also: 40th Legislative District (New Jersey).