Editing Brielle, New Jersey (section)

===Politics===
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|+ Brielle vote<br /> by party in presidential elections
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! Year
! [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
! [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
! [[Third party (United States)|Third Parties]]
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[2024 United States presidential election|2024]]<ref name="uselectionatlas.org">{{Cite web|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html|title = Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|36.39% ''1,263''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''62.43%''' ''2,167''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|1.18% ''41''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[2020 United States presidential election|2020]]<ref name="uselectionatlas.org">{{Cite web|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html|title = Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|38.06% ''1,367''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''60.58%''' ''2,176''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|1.36% ''49''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[2016 United States presidential election|2016]]<ref name="uselectionatlas.org"/>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|30.49% ''941''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''64.58%''' ''1,993''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|4.93% ''152''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[2012 United States presidential election|2012]]<ref name="uselectionatlas.org"/>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|32.16% ''914''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''66.61%''' ''1,893''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|1.23% ''35''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[2008 United States presidential election|2008]]<ref name="uselectionatlas.org"/>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|36.57% ''1,085''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''62.08%''' ''1,842''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|1.35% ''40''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[2004 United States presidential election|2004]]<ref name="uselectionatlas.org"/>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|31.46% ''913''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''67.92%''' ''1,971''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|0.62% ''18''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[2000 United States presidential election|2000]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://assets01.aws.connect.clarityelections.com/Assets/Connect/RootPublish/monmouth-nj.connect.clarityelections.com/Election%20Results/2000/_2000%20General%20-%20President.pdf|access-date=2023-08-21|title=MONMOUTH COUNTY OFFICIAL GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS|date=2000-11-07}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|32.03% ''861''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''63.50%''' ''1,707''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|4.46% ''120''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1996 United States presidential election|1996]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60065575/monmouth-county-nj-presidential/|title = Monmouth County, NJ presidential election results, 1996|newspaper = Asbury Park Press|date = November 6, 1996|page = 24}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|33.39% ''745''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''57.82%''' ''1,290''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|8.79% ''196''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1992 United States presidential election|1992]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60065551/monmouth-county-nj-presidential/|title = Monmouth County, NJ presidential election results, 1992|newspaper = Asbury Park Press|date = November 4, 1992|page = 36}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|27.57% ''668''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''56.05%''' ''1,358''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|16.38% ''397''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1988 United States presidential election|1988]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60065533/monmouth-county-nj-presidential/|title = Monmouth County, NJ presidential election results, 1988|newspaper = Asbury Park Press|date = November 9, 1988|page = 23}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|25.13% ''548''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''74.87%''' ''1,633''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1984 United States presidential election|1984]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60065505/monmouth-county-nj-presidential/|title = Monmouth County, NJ presidential election results, 1984|newspaper = Asbury Park Press|date = November 7, 1984|page = 59}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|23.02% ''509''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''76.98%''' ''1,702''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1980 United States presidential election in New Jersey|1980]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60065378/monmouth-county-nj-presidential/|title = Monmouth County, NJ presidential election results, 1980|newspaper = Asbury Park Press|date = November 5, 1980|page = 8}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|21.77% ''429''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''72.20%''' ''1,423''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|6.04% ''119''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1976 United States presidential election in New Jersey|1976]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/monmouth-county-nj-presidential-election-1976|title = Monmouth County, NJ Presidential Election, 1976|year = 1976}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|26.81% ''501''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''73.19%''' ''1,368''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1972 United States presidential election in New Jersey|1972]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75461113/monmouth-county-nj-election-results/|title = Monmouth County, NJ election results, 1972|newspaper = Asbury Park Press|date = November 8, 1972|page = 20}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|20.74% ''370''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''79.26%''' ''1,414''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1968 United States presidential election in New Jersey|1968]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/monmouth-county-nj-presidential-election-results-1968|title=Monmouth County NJ Presidential Election Results 1968|year=1968}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|23.85% ''410''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''71.50%''' ''1,229''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|4.65% ''80''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1964 United States presidential election in New Jersey|1964]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59817450/monmouth-county-nj-presidential/|title = Monmouth County, NJ presidential election results, 1964|newspaper = The Daily Register|date = November 4, 1964|page = 29}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|38.89% ''573''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''61.41%''' ''912''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1960 United States presidential election in New Jersey|1960]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60065054/monmouth-county-nj-presidential/|title = Monmouth County, NJ presidential election results, 1960|newspaper = The Daily Record|date = November 4, 1964|page = 8}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|18.55% ''278''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''81.45%''' ''1,221''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1956 United States presidential election in New Jersey|1956]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60065137/monmouth-and-ocean-county-nj/|title = Monmouth and Ocean County, NJ presidential election results, 1956|newspaper = Asbury Park Press|date = November 7, 1956|page = 3}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|10.85% ''112''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''89.15%''' ''920''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1952 United States presidential election in New Jersey|1952]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60065169/monmouth-county-nj-presidential/|title = Monmouth County, NJ presidential election results, 1952|newspaper = Asbury Park Press|date = November 5, 1952|page = 3}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|20.26% ''169''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''79.74%''' ''665''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1948 United States presidential election in New Jersey|1948]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60065201/monmouth-county-nj-presidential/|title = Monmouth County, NJ presidential election results, 1948|newspaper = Asbury Park Press|date = November 3, 1948|page = 3}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|20.60% ''123''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''76.88%''' ''459''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|2.51% ''15''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1944 United States presidential election in New Jersey|1944]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60065229/monmouth-county-nj-presidential/|title = Monmouth County, NJ presidential election results, 1944|newspaper = Asbury Park Press|date = November 8, 1944|page = 3}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|28.35% ''148''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''71.65%''' ''374''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1940 United States presidential election in New Jersey|1940]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60065243/monmouth-county-nj-presidential/|title = Monmouth County, NJ presidential election results, 1940|newspaper = Asbury Park Press|date = November 6, 1940|page = 11}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|28.21% ''147''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''71.79%''' ''374''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1936 United States presidential election in New Jersey|1936]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60065267/monmouth-county-nj-presidential/|title = Monmouth County, NJ presidential election results, 1936|newspaper = Asbury Park Press|date = November 4, 1936|page = 3}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|33.99% ''155''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''66.01%''' ''301''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey|1932]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60065288/monmouth-county-nj-presidential/|title = Monmouth County, NJ presidential election results, 1932|newspaper = Asbury Park Press|date = November 9, 1932|page = 7}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|32.73% ''127''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''67.27%''' ''261''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1928 United States presidential election in New Jersey|1928]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60065308/monmouth-county-nj-presidential/|title = Monmouth County, NJ presidential election results, 1928|newspaper = Asbury Park Press|date = November 7, 1928|page = 2}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|17.48% ''57''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''82.52%''' ''269''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1924 United States presidential election in New Jersey|1924]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bxAJ4yl-UZAC&dq=sea+girt&pg=PA665|title = Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey|year = 1925}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|21.76% ''52''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''78.24%''' ''187''
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|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1920 United States presidential election in New Jersey|1920]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/manualoflegislat1921mull/page/496/mode/2up?q=saddle+river|title = Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey|year = 1872}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|32.99% ''65''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''67.01%''' ''132''
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As of March 2011, there were a total of 3,653 registered voters in Brielle, of which 617 (16.9%) were registered as [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]], 1,446 (39.6%) were registered as [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]] and 1,590 (43.5%) were registered as [[Unaffiliated (New Jersey)|Unaffiliated]]. There were no voters registered to other parties.<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/election-results/2011-monmouth-co-summary-report.pdf Voter Registration Summary - Monmouth], [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, March 23, 2011. Accessed December 3, 2012.</ref>

In the [[United States presidential election in New Jersey, 2012|2012 presidential election]], Republican [[Mitt Romney]] received 66.7% of the vote (1,893 cast), ahead of Democrat [[Barack Obama]] with 32.2% (914 votes), and other candidates with 1.0% (29 votes), among the 2,859 ballots cast by the borough's 3,830 registered voters (23 ballots were [[Spoilt vote|spoiled]]), for a turnout of 74.6%.<ref name=2012Elections>{{cite web |url=http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2012-results/2012-presidential-monmouth.pdf |title=Presidential General Election Results - November 6, 2012 - Monmouth 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-monmouth.pdf |title=Number of Registered Voters and Ballots Cast - November 6, 2012 - General Election Results - Monmouth 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]], Republican [[John McCain]] received 61.3% of the vote (1,842 cast), ahead of Democrat Barack Obama with 36.1% (1,085 votes) and other candidates with 1.3% (40 votes), among the 3,003 ballots cast by the borough's 3,824 registered voters, for a turnout of 78.5%.<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/election-results/2008-gen-elect-presidential-results-monmouth.pdf 2008 Presidential General Election Results: Monmouth County], [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, December 23, 2008. Accessed December 3, 2012.</ref> In the [[United States presidential election in New Jersey, 2004|2004 presidential election]], Republican [[George W. Bush]] received 67.5% of the vote (1,971 ballots cast), outpolling Democrat [[John Kerry]] with 31.3% (913 votes) and other candidates with 0.5% (18 votes), among the 2,918 ballots cast by the borough's 3,805 registered voters, for a turnout percentage of 76.7.<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/election-results/2004-presidential_monmouth_co_2004.pdf 2004 Presidential Election: Monmouth County], [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, December 13, 2004. Accessed December 3, 2012.</ref>

In the [[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2013|2013 gubernatorial election]], Republican [[Chris Christie]] received 79.1% of the vote (1,533 cast), ahead of Democrat [[Barbara Buono]] with 19.4% (376 votes), and other candidates with 1.5% (30 votes), among the 1,963 ballots cast by the borough's 3,852 registered voters (24 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 51.0%.<ref name=2013Elections>{{cite web |url=http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2013-results/2013-general-election-results-governor-monmouth.pdf |title=Governor - Monmouth 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-monmouth.pdf |title=Number of Registered Voters and Ballots Cast - November 5, 2013 - General Election Results - Monmouth 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]], Republican Chris Christie received 70.9% of the vote (1,571 ballots cast), ahead of Democrat [[Jon Corzine]] with 22.2% (491 votes), Independent [[Chris Daggett]] with 5.8% (129 votes) and other candidates with 0.6% (13 votes), among the 2,215 ballots cast by the borough's 3,664 registered voters, yielding a 60.5% turnout.<ref>[http://www.njelections.org/election-results/2009-governor_results-monmouth.pdf 2009 Governor: Monmouth County] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017230351/http://www.njelections.org/election-results/2009-governor_results-monmouth.pdf |date=2012-10-17 }}, [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, December 31, 2009. Accessed December 3, 2012.</ref>