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==Government== === Crime === [[Image:Cumberland County Courthouse NJ.jpg|thumb|The Cumberland County Courthouse in Bridgeton in 2006]] Bridgeton has consistently had violent crime rates above the national average. It is among the highest in the state, along with [[Camden, New Jersey|Camden]], [[Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]], [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]], and [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]]. In 2015, [[NeighborhoodScout]], a real estate analytics firm, ranked it as the 25th most dangerous city in America. A 2019 report in the ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'' listed Bridgeton at fifth on its list of the state's ten most dangerous cities.<ref>[https://www.app.com/story/life/2019/10/25/top-10-most-dangerous-cities-live-nj-ranked-2020/4061332002/ "NJ's 10 most dangerous cities listed in new ranking. Here's who made the list."], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', October 25, 2019. Accessed January 19, 2023. "No. 5: Bridgeton In fifth-ranked Bridgeton, violent and property crime rates have both increased approximately 11% between 2015-17, according to the report."</ref> In 2022, based on data from FBI [[Uniform Crime Reports]], Bridgeton had 203 violent crimes, ranked ninth highest among all municipalities in the state.<ref>[https://943thepoint.com/the-most-dangerous-places-to-be-in-new-jersey/ "The Most Dangerous Places To Be In New Jersey"], [[WJLK-FM|WJLK]], October 24, 2022. Accessed January 19, 2023.</ref> ===Local government=== The City of Bridgeton is governed within the [[Faulkner Act]] system of municipal government, formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law, under [[Faulkner Act (mayor–council)|Mayor-Council]] plan A, as implemented on July 1, 1970, based on the recommendations of a [[Charter Study Commission]].<ref>[http://www.dudley-2010.com/Faulkner%20Act%2046pages.pdf "The Faulkner Act: New Jersey's Optional Municipal Charter Law"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012040522/http://www.dudley-2010.com/Faulkner%20Act%2046pages.pdf |date=October 12, 2013 }}, [[New Jersey State League of Municipalities]], July 2007. Accessed October 7, 2013.</ref> The city is one of 71 municipalities (of the 564) statewide governed under this form.<ref>[https://njdatabook.rutgers.edu/sites/njdatabook.rutgers.edu/files/documents/inventory_of_municipal_forms_of_government_in_new_jersey.pdf ''Inventory of Municipal Forms of Government in New Jersey''], [[Rutgers University]] Center for Government Studies, July 1, 2011. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref> The governing body is comprised of a mayor and a five-member City Council. Council members are elected at-large in non-partisan elections and serve concurrent four-year terms of office in balloting held as part of the November general election.<ref name=DataBook>''2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book'', [[Rutgers University]] [[Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy]], March 2013, p. 19.</ref><ref>[https://njdatabook.rutgers.edu/sites/njdatabook.rutgers.edu/files/documents/forms_of_municipal_government_in_new_jersey_9220.pdf#page=10 "Forms of Municipal Government in New Jersey"], p. 10. [[Rutgers University]] Center for Government Studies. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref> Based on the results of an ordinance passed in June 2011, Bridgeton's non-partisan elections were shifted from May to November, which took effect with the November 2014 general election.<ref>[http://ecode360.com/15321683 City Code Chapter 19: Elections], City of Bridgeton. Accessed March 18, 2018. "In accordance with N.J.S.A. 40:45-5 et seq., the 'Uniform Nonpartisan Election Law,' after January 1, 2011, election of municipal officers will be held at regular general elections to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November."</ref> The mayor exercises executive power of the municipality and appoints department heads with council approval. The mayor may remove department heads subject to council disapproval by {{frac|2|3}} of all members, prepares the budget. The mayor has veto over ordinances, subject to override by {{frac|2|3}} of all members of the council. The mayor exercises executive power of the municipality. Up to ten departments may be created under the mayor's direction. A business administrator assists the mayor in budget preparation and administers purchasing and personnel systems. By ordinance, the business administrator may supervise administration of departments, subject to mayor's direction. The City Council exercises legislative power of municipality and approves appointment of department heads. The council may disapprove removal of department heads by {{frac|2|3}} vote of all members and can override the mayor's veto by {{frac|2|3}} of all members. The council selects one of its own members to serve as its president.<ref name=MayorCouncil/> {{As of|2023}}, the Mayor is Albert B. Kelly, whose term of office ends on December 31, 2026. Members of the City Council are Council President Edward Bethea, Rosemary DeQuinzio, James Curtis Edwards, David Gonzalez and Marian King, all of whom are serving concurrent terms of office that end December 31, 2025.<ref name=MayorCouncil>[http://www.cityofbridgeton.com/about.php#officals Mayor and City Council], Bridgeton, New Jersey. Accessed August 27, 2023. "The City of Bridgeton is governed by the Faulkner Act system of municipal government under 'Mayor-Council plan A', as implemented on July 1, 1970, based on the recommendations of a Charter Study Commission. Under this structure, voters elect a Mayor and five City Council members. In Bridgeton, Council members are elected 'at-large' in non-partisan elections and serve four-year concurrent terms. The Council elects one of its own members to serve as Council President".</ref><ref>[https://cityofbridgetonadditional.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/7/1/1171618/2023_adopted_budget.pdf 2023 Municipal Data Sheet], Bridgeton, New Jersey. Accessed August 27, 2023.</ref><ref name=CumberlandDirectory>[https://www.cumberlandcountynj.gov/filestorage/22641/24559/2023_Directory_.pdf#page=63 ''2023 Directory of Cumberland County, New Jersey''], [[Cumberland County, New Jersey]]. Accessed March 1, 2024.</ref><ref name=Cumberland2022>[https://ccclerknj.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SUMMARY-REPORT.pdf Election Summary Report General Election Cumberland County November 8, 2022], [[Cumberland County, New Jersey]], updated November 28, 2022. Accessed January 1, 2023.</ref> Marian King was appointed to fill the seat that had been held by Samuel W. Feinstein.<ref>[http://www.cityofbridgeton.com/king.php Marian King], City of Bridgeton. Accessed April 21, 2022. "Councilwoman Marian King is a lifelong resident of the Bridgeton community. A strong proponent for quality education in Bridgeton, Councilwoman King served on the Bridgeton School Board prior to being selected to replace former Councilman Sam Feinstein."</ref> King served on an interim basis until the November 2021 general election, when she was elected to serve the balance of the term of office.<ref name=Cumberland2021>[https://ccclerknj.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/SUMMARY-REPORT-1.pdf Election Summary Report General Election Cumberland County November 2, 2021], [[Cumberland County, New Jersey]], updated November 19, 2021. Accessed January 1, 2022.</ref> ===Federal, state, and county representation=== Bridgeton is located in the 2nd Congressional District<ref name=PCR2012>[https://www.nj.gov/state/elections/assets/pdf/2012-congressional-districts/njcd-2011-plan-components-county-mcd.pdf Plan Components Report], [[New Jersey Redistricting Commission]], December 23, 2011. Accessed February 1, 2020.</ref> and is part of New Jersey's 1st state legislative district.<ref>[https://nj1015.com/whats-your-new-nj-legislative-district-20-moved-on-new-map/ Districts by Number for 2023-2031], [[New Jersey Legislature]]. Accessed September 18, 2023.</ref> {{NJ Congress 02}} {{NJ Senate}} {{NJ Legislative 01}} {{NJ Cumberland County Freeholders}} The [[New Jersey Department of Corrections]] [[South Woods State Prison]] is located in Bridgeton. City officials opposed a plan announced in 2007 that would move over 1,000 prisoners from [[Riverfront State Prison]] in [[Camden, New Jersey|Camden]] to South Woods.<ref name="Martins">Martins, John. "[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AC&p_theme=ac&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11954893B7616228&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Bridgeton doesn't want Camden's state inmates]." ''[[The Press of Atlantic City]]''. May 23, 2007. Accessed September 27, 2011. "City officials on Tuesday night condemned what they say is a state plan to relocate more than 1,000 inmates from Camden's Riverfront State Prison to one of the county's three state prisons."</ref> ===Politics=== As of March 2011, there were a total of 8,699 registered voters in Bridgeton, of which 2,816 (32.4%) were registered as [[Democratic Party (New Jersey)|Democrats]], 772 (8.9%) were registered as [[Republican Party (New Jersey)|Republicans]] and 5,104 (58.7%) were registered as [[Unaffiliated (New Jersey)|Unaffiliated]]. There were 7 voters registered as [[Libertarian Party (New Jersey)|Libertarians]] or [[Green Party (New Jersey)|Greens]].<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/election-results/2011-cumberland-co-summary-report.pdf Voter Registration Summary - Cumberland], [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, March 23, 2011. Accessed October 22, 2012.</ref> {{PresHead|place=Bridgeton |source=<br>2024<ref>[https://www.nj.gov/state/elections/assets/pdf/election-results/2024/2024-official-general-results-president-cumberland.pdf Presidential November 5, 2024 General Election Results Cumberland County], [[New Jersey Department of State]]. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref> 2020<ref>[https://www.nj.gov/state/elections/assets/pdf/election-results/2020/2020-official-general-results-president-cumberland.pdf Presidential November 3, 2020 General Election Results Cumberland County], [[New Jersey Department of State]], published December 18, 2020. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref> 2016<ref>[https://www.nj.gov/state/elections/assets/pdf/election-results/2016/2016-gen-elect-presidential-results-cumberland.pdf Presidential November 8, 2016 General Election Results Cumberland County], [[New Jersey Department of State]], updated December 14, 2016. Accessed January 16, 2025.</ref> 2012<ref name=2012Election>{{cite web |url=http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2012-results/2012-presidential-cumberland.pdf |title=Presidential General Election Results - November 6, 2012 - Cumberland County |date=March 15, 2013 |publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections |access-date=December 24, 2014}}</ref> 2008<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/election-results/2008-gen-elect-presidential-results-cumberland.pdf 2008 Presidential General Election Results: Cumberland County], [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, December 23, 2008. Accessed October 22, 2012.</ref> 2004<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/election-results/2004-presidential_cumberland_co_2004.pdf 2004 Presidential Election: Cumberland County], [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, December 13, 2004. Accessed October 22, 2012.</ref>}} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} --> {{PresRow|2024|Democratic|1,095|2,719|49|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|2020|Democratic|1,094|3,616|44|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|2016|Democratic|1,003|3,340|121|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|2012|Democratic|891|4,125|37|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|2008|Democratic|1,111|4,238|91|New Jersey}} {{PresRow|2004|Democratic|1,552|3,044|19|New Jersey}} |} In the [[United States presidential election in New Jersey, 2012|2012 presidential election]], Democrat [[Barack Obama]] received 81.6% of the vote (4,125 cast), ahead of Republican [[Mitt Romney]] with 17.6% (891 votes), and other candidates with 0.7% (37 votes), among the 5,088 ballots cast by the city's 9,034 registered voters (35 ballots were [[Spoilt vote|spoiled]]), for a turnout of 56.3%.<ref name=2012Elections>{{cite web |url=http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2012-results/2012-presidential-cumberland.pdf |title=Presidential General Election Results - November 6, 2012 - Cumberland County |date=March 15, 2013 |publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections |access-date=December 24, 2014}}</ref><ref name=2012VoterReg>{{cite web |url=http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2012-results/2012-ballotscast-cumberland.pdf |title=Number of Registered Voters and Ballots Cast - November 6, 2012 - General Election Results - Cumberland County|date=March 15, 2013 |publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections |access-date=December 24, 2014}}</ref> In the [[United States presidential election in New Jersey, 2008|2008 presidential election]], Democrat Barack Obama received 77.9% of the vote here (4,238 cast), ahead of Republican [[John McCain]], who received 20.4% (1,111 votes), with 5,440 ballots cast among the city's 8,986 registered voters, for a turnout of 60.5%.<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/election-results/2008-gen-elect-presidential-results-cumberland.pdf 2008 Presidential General Election Results: Cumberland County], [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, December 23, 2008. Accessed October 22, 2012.</ref> In the [[United States presidential election in New Jersey, 2004|2004 presidential election]], Democrat [[John Kerry]] received 66.0% of the vote here (3,044 ballots cast), outpolling Republican [[George W. Bush]], who received 33.6% (1,552 votes), with 4,615 ballots cast among the city's 7,978 registered voters, for a turnout percentage of 57.8.<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/election-results/2004-presidential_cumberland_co_2004.pdf 2004 Presidential Election: Cumberland County], [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, December 13, 2004. Accessed October 22, 2012.</ref> In the [[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2013|2013 gubernatorial election]], Democrat [[Barbara Buono]] received 62.7% of the vote (1,513 cast), ahead of Republican [[Chris Christie]] with 35.9% (867 votes), and other candidates with 1.4% (33 votes), among the 2,499 ballots cast by the city's 8,320 registered voters (86 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 30.0%.<ref name=2013Elections>{{cite web |url=http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2013-results/2013-general-election-results-governor-cumberland.pdf |title=Governor - Cumberland County |date=January 29, 2014 |publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections |access-date=December 24, 2014}}</ref><ref name=2013VoterReg>{{cite web |url=http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2013-results/2013-general-election-ballotscast-cumberland.pdf |title=Number of Registered Voters and Ballots Cast - November 5, 2013 - General Election Results - Cumberland County|date=January 29, 2014 |publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections |access-date=December 24, 2014}}</ref> In the [[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2009|2009 gubernatorial election]], Democrat [[Jon Corzine]] received 67.2% of the vote here (1,806 ballots cast), ahead of both Republican Chris Christie with 24.1% (647 votes) and Independent [[Chris Daggett]] with 4.4% (118 votes), with 2,687 ballots cast among the city's 8,524 registered voters, yielding a 31.5% turnout.<ref>[http://www.njelections.org/election-results/2009-governor_results-cumberland.pdf 2009 Governor: Cumberland County] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160707152844/http://www.njelections.org/election-results/2009-governor_results-cumberland.pdf |date=2016-07-07 }}, [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, December 31, 2009. Accessed October 22, 2012.</ref>
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