Editing Hightstown, New Jersey (section)

===Politics===
As of March 2011, there were a total of 2,891 registered voters in Hightstown, of which 1,105 (38.2%) were registered as [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]], 542 (18.7%) were registered as [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]] and 1,241 (42.9%) were registered as [[Unaffiliated (New Jersey)|Unaffiliated]]. There were 3 voters registered as [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarians]] or [[Green Party (United States)|Greens]].<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/election-results/2011-mercer-co-summary-report.pdf Voter Registration Summary - Mercer], [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, March 23, 2011. Accessed November 21, 2012.</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="float:right; font-size:95%;"
|+ Presidential Elections Results
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! Year
![[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
![[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
![[Third Party (United States)|Third Parties]]
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| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[2024 United States presidential election in New Jersey|2024]]<ref name="2024Elections">{{cite web|url=https://nj.gov/state/elections/assets/pdf/election-results/2024/2024-official-general-results-president-mercer.pdf|title=Presidential General Election Results - November 5, 2024 - Mercer County|publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections|access-date=January 8, 2025}}</ref>'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|32.0% ''759''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''66.3%'''  ''1,567''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;" |1.6% ''39''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in New Jersey, 2020|2020]]<ref name="2020Elections">{{cite web|url=https://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/assets/pdf/election-results/2020/2020-official-general-results-president-mercer.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412002346/https://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/assets/pdf/election-results/2020/2020-official-general-results-president-mercer.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 12, 2021|title=Presidential General Election Results - November 8, 2016 - Mercer County|publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections|access-date=December 31, 2017}}</ref>'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|29.3% ''789''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''68.0%'''  ''1,781''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;" |2.3% ''49''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in New Jersey, 2016|2016]]<ref name="2016Elections">{{cite web|url=http://nj.gov/state/elections/2016-results/2016-gen-elect-presidential-results-mercer.pdf|title=Presidential General Election Results - November 8, 2016 - Mercer County|publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections|access-date=December 31, 2017}}{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|32.1% ''729''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''63.4%'''  ''1,438''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;" |4.5% ''101''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in New Jersey, 2012|2012]]<ref name="2012Elections">{{cite web|url=http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2012-results/2012-presidential-mercer.pdf|title=Presidential General Election Results - November 6, 2012 - Mercer County|date=March 15, 2013|publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections|access-date=December 23, 2014}}</ref>'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|33.4% ''707''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''64.6%'''  ''1,369''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;" |2.0% ''42''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in New Jersey, 2008|2008]]<ref name="state.nj.us">[http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/election-results/2008-gen-elect-presidential-results-mercer.rev.pdf 2008 Presidential General Election Results: Mercer County], [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, December 23, 2008. Accessed November 21, 2012.</ref>'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|30.8% ''685''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''67.6%'''  ''1,504''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;" |1.6% ''36''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in New Jersey, 2004|2004]]<ref name="Presidential Election 2004">[http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/election-results/2004-presidential_mercer_co_2004.pdf 2004 Presidential Election: Mercer County], [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, December 13, 2004. Accessed November 21, 2012.</ref>'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|37.6% ''771''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''61.2%'''  ''1,254''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;" |1.2% ''25''
|-
|}

In the [[United States presidential election in New Jersey, 2012|2012 presidential election]], Democrat [[Barack Obama]] received 64.6% of the vote (1,369 cast), ahead of Republican [[Mitt Romney]] with 33.4% (707 votes), and other candidates with 2.0% (42 votes), among the 2,308 ballots cast by the borough's 3,062 registered voters (190 ballots were [[Spoilt vote|spoiled]]), for a turnout of 75.4%.<ref name=2012Elections/><ref name=2012VoterReg>{{cite web |url=http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2012-results/2012-ballotscast-mercer.pdf |title=Number of Registered Voters and Ballots Cast - November 6, 2012 - General Election Results - Mercer County|date=March 15, 2013 |publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections |access-date=December 23, 2014}}</ref> In the [[United States presidential election in New Jersey, 2008|2008 presidential election]], Democrat Barack Obama received 66.8% of the vote (1,504 cast), ahead of Republican [[John McCain]] with 30.4% (685 votes) and other candidates with 1.6% (36 votes), among the 2,253 ballots cast by the borough's 2,962 registered voters, for a turnout of 76.1%.<ref name="state.nj.us"/> In the [[United States presidential election in New Jersey, 2004|2004 presidential election]], Democrat [[John Kerry]] received 59.3% of the vote (1,254 ballots cast), outpolling Republican [[George W. Bush]] with 36.4% (771 votes) and other candidates with 0.9% (25 votes), among the 2,116 ballots cast by the borough's 2,776 registered voters, for a turnout percentage of 76.2.<ref name="Presidential Election 2004"/>

{| class="wikitable" style="float:right; font-size:95%;"
|+ Gubernatorial Elections Results
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! Year
![[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
![[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
![[Third Party (United States)|Third Parties]]
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2021|2021]]<ref name="2021Elections">{{cite web|url=https://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/assets/pdf/election-results/2021/2021-general-election-results-governor-mercer.pdf|title=Governor - Mercer County|publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections|access-date=December 31, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101135257/http://www.njelections.org/2017-results/2017-general-election-results-governor-mercer.pdf|archive-date=January 1, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|35.2% ''523''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''63.4%'''  ''942''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;" |1.4% ''20''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2017|2017]]<ref name="2017Elections">{{cite web|url=http://www.njelections.org/2017-results/2017-general-election-results-governor-mercer.pdf|title=Governor - Mercer County|publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections|access-date=December 31, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101135257/http://www.njelections.org/2017-results/2017-general-election-results-governor-mercer.pdf|archive-date=January 1, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|38.7% ''493''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''58.4%'''  ''744''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;" |2.8% ''36''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2013|2013]]<ref name="2013Elections">{{cite web|url=http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2013-results/2013-general-election-results-governor-mercer.pdf|title=Governor - Mercer County|date=January 29, 2014|publisher=New Jersey Department of Elections|access-date=December 24, 2014}}</ref>'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''57.9%''' ''765''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|38.8%  ''512''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;" |3.3% ''44''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2009|2009]]<ref name="2009 Governor: Mercer County">[http://www.njelections.org/election-results/2009-governor_results-mercer.pdf 2009 Governor: Mercer County] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822213742/http://www.njelections.org/election-results/2009-governor_results-mercer.pdf |date=August 22, 2012 }}, [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections, December 31, 2009. Accessed November 21, 2012.</ref>'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''46.2%''' ''700''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|44.8%  ''679''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;" |8.2% ''123''
|-
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2005|2005]]<ref>[http://www.njelections.org/election-results/2005governor's_results-mercer.pdf 2005 Governor: Mercer County] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160707151030/http://www.njelections.org/election-results/2005governor's_results-mercer.pdf |date=July 7, 2016 }}, [[New Jersey Department of State]] Division of Elections. Accessed December 31, 2017.</ref>'''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Republican}}|41.2% ''582''
| style="text-align:center; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''53.1%''' ''750''
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;" |5.7% ''80''
|}

In the [[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2013|2013 gubernatorial election]], Republican [[Chris Christie]] received 57.9% of the vote (765 cast), ahead of Democrat [[Barbara Buono]] with 38.8% (512 votes), and other candidates with 3.3% (44 votes), among the 1,341 ballots cast by the borough's 2,961 registered voters (20 ballots were [[Spoilt vote|spoiled]]), for a turnout of 45.3%. In the [[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2009|2009 gubernatorial election]], Republican Chris Christie received 46.2% of the vote (700 ballots cast), ahead of Democrat [[Jon Corzine]] with 44.8% (679 votes), Independent [[Chris Daggett]] with 7.1% (107 votes) and other candidates with 1.1% (16 votes), among the 1,514 ballots cast by the borough's 2,908 registered voters, yielding a 52.1% turnout.<ref name="2009 Governor: Mercer County"/>