Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Morris County, New Jersey
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
== Politics == Though New Jersey is mainly a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] state, Morris County has generally leaned towards the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]. The GOP has carried the county in all but three presidential elections starting in 1896: in [[1912 United States presidential election in New Jersey|1912]], [[1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey|1964]], and [[2020 United States presidential election in New Jersey|2020]]. Republicans hold every countywide elected office and all of the county's seats in the state legislature. The last Democrat to win a county office was Commissioner Douglas Romaine in 1973. [[Cory Booker]] in 2020 became the first Democrat to win the county in a Senate election since [[Bill Bradley]] in [[1984 United States Senate election in New Jersey|1984]]. In [[2024 United States presidential election in New Jersey|2024]], Donald Trump flipped the county back to Republican, and Republican [[Curtis Bashaw]] carried the county against [[Andy Kim (politician)|Andy Kim]] in the [[2024 United States Senate election in New Jersey|simultaneous Senate election]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wildstein |first1=David |title=Morris went blue at the top, remained red in the middle |url=https://newjerseyglobe.com/local/morris-went-blue-at-the-top-remained-red-in-the-middle/ |website=New Jersey Globe |date=November 20, 2020 |publisher=Sea of Reeds Media |access-date=November 20, 2020}}</ref> As of October 1, 2021, there were a total of 397,571 registered voters in Morris County, of whom 136,127 (34.2%) were registered as [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]], 117,323 (29.5%) were registered as [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] and 140,145 (35.3%) were registered as [[Unaffiliated (New Jersey)|unaffiliated]]. There were 3,976 voters (1.0%) registered to other parties.<ref>[https://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/assets/pdf/svrs-reports/2021/2021-10-voter-registration-by-county.pdf Statewide Voter Registration Summary as of October 1, 2021], [[New Jersey Department of State]]. Accessed July 28, 2022.</ref> {{PresHead|place=Morris County, New Jersey|source=<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|last=Leip|first=David|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=June 10, 2018}}</ref>}} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} --> {{PresRow|2024|Republican|143,439|135,672|6,955|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|2020|Democratic|141,134|153,881|5,902|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|2016|Republican|126,071|115,249|12,217|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|2012|Republican|125,279|100,563|2,805|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|2008|Republican|132,331|112,275|2,913|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|2004|Republican|135,241|98,066|1,847|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|2000|Republican|111,066|88,039|7,403|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1996|Republican|95,830|81,092|18,823|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1992|Republican|108,431|67,593|33,208|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1988|Republican|127,420|58,721|1,108|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1984|Republican|137,719|53,201|584|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1980|Republican|105,260|48,965|19,379|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1976|Republican|105,921|63,749|2,703|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1972|Republican|113,469|50,937|2,028|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1968|Republican|85,512|52,398|10,152|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1964|Democratic|55,024|73,684|205|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1960|Republican|75,039|42,698|146|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1956|Republican|76,571|19,503|395|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1952|Republican|62,847|23,662|120|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1948|Republican|42,558|18,864|1,152|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1944|Republican|39,732|21,454|186|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1940|Republican|39,720|24,698|194|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1936|Republican|32,365|24,978|600|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1932|Republican|31,481|20,117|1,604|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1928|Republican|33,189|15,188|182|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1924|Republican|24,812|8,042|2,801|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1920|Republican|20,686|7,256|989|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1916|Republican|8,530|6,798|400|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1912|Democratic|3,329|5,628|5,089|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1908|Republican|9,089|5,026|747|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1904|Republican|8,201|4,768|1,237|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1900|Republican|7,743|5,793|676|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|1896|Republican|8,190|4,936|825|New Jersey}} |} {{Hidden begin |titlestyle = background:#ccccff; |title = Gubernatorial elections results }} {| class="wikitable" style="float:right; margin:1em;" |+ '''Morris County vote<br /> in gubernatorial elections'''<ref name="morriscountyclerk.org">{{Cite web|url=https://www.morriscountyclerk.org/Elections/Election-Results|title = Morris County Election Results}}</ref> |- style="background:lightgrey;" ! Year ! [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] ! [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |- |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2021|2021]] |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''55.3%''' ''102,769'' |align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|44.0% ''81,915'' |- |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2017|2017]] |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''53.1%''' ''77,203'' |align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|45.0% ''65,507'' |- |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2013|2013]] |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''70.0%''' ''98,888'' |align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|28.2% ''39,824'' |- |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2009|2009]] |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''60.0%''' ''99,085'' |align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|31.2% ''51,586'' |- |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2005|2005]] |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''55.9%''' ''82,550'' |align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|41.3% ''60,986'' |- |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2001|2001]] |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''55.8%''' ''79,350'' |align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|42.6% ''60,948'' |- |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 1997|1997]] |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''65.4%''' ''97,414'' |align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|27.7% ''41,296'' |- |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 1993|1993]] |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''61.9%''' ''98,715'' |align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|36.4% ''58,028'' |- |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 1989|1989]] |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''51.7%''' ''67,592'' |align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|47.1% ''61,678'' |- |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 1985|1985]] |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''78.4%''' ''85,189'' |align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|21.0% ''22,847'' |- |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 1981|1981]] |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''67.1%''' ''86,882'' |align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|31.9% ''41,310'' |- |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 1977|1977]] |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''53.7%''' ''62,031'' |align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|44.6% ''55,033'' |- |align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|[[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 1973|1973]] |align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|35.4% ''40,524'' |align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''63.3%''' ''72,539'' |} {{Hidden end}}
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Morris County, New Jersey
(section)
Add topic