4th Legislative District (New Jersey)

New Jersey's
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

4th Legislative District is one of 40 in the state, covering the Camden County

Camden County, New Jersey

-Demographics:As of the 2010 Census the population of Camden County was 60.28% Non-Hispanic white, 18.45% Non-Hispanic black, 1.12% Hispanic blacks, 0.17% Non-Hispanic Native American, 0.15% Hispanic Native Americans, 5.07% Non-Hispanic Asian, and 0.14% non-Hispanics reporting some other race...

municipalities of Clementon Borough

Clementon, New Jersey

Clementon is a Borough in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 5,000.Around 1800, Jonathon Haines built a glass factory in what is now present day Clementon, situated on a large hill across the street from the modern day Clementon...

, Gloucester Township

Gloucester Township, New Jersey

Gloucester Township is a Township in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township had a total population of 64,634...

, Laurel Springs Borough

Laurel Springs, New Jersey

Laurel Springs is a Borough in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2010 Census, the borough population was 1,908....

and Lindenwold Borough

Lindenwold, New Jersey

Lindenwold is a borough in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 17,613.The Borough of Lindenwold was created on April 23, 1929, from Clementon Township, one of seven municipalities created from the now-defunct township, and one of...

, and the Gloucester County

Gloucester County, New Jersey

Gloucester County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 288,288. Its county seat is Woodbury....

municipalities of Franklin Township

Franklin Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey

Franklin Township is a township in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 15,466....

, Glassboro Borough

Glassboro, New Jersey

Glassboro is a borough in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 19,068....

, Monroe Township

Monroe Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey

Monroe Township is a township in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 28,967....

, Newfield Borough

Newfield, New Jersey

Newfield is a Borough in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 1,616.Newfield was formed as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 8, 1924, from portions of Franklin Township, based on the results of a...

, Pitman Borough

Pitman, New Jersey

Pitman is a Borough in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2000 United States Census, the borough population was 9,331.-Geography:Pitman is located at ....

and Washington Township

Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey

Washington Township is a township in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. In the 2010 United States Census, Washington Township's population was 48,559, having grown from 47,114 in the 2000 Census....

. As of the 2000 United States Census, the district had a population of 210,282.

Demographic characteristics

The district's percentage of people of Asian origin, the elderly and Hispanics are all below the state average. The percentage of foreign-born residents is the second lowest in the state.

Political representation

The district is represented in the New Jersey Senate

New Jersey Senate

The New Jersey Senate was established as the upper house of the New Jersey Legislature by the Constitution of 1844, replacing the Legislative Council. From 1844 until 1965 New Jersey's counties elected one Senator, each. Under the 1844 Constitution the term of office was three years. The 1947...

by Fred H. Madden

Fred H. Madden

Fred H. Madden, Jr. is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey State Senate since 2004, where he represents the 4th Legislative District....

Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

, Washington Township

Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey

) and in the New Jersey General Assembly

New Jersey General Assembly

The New Jersey General Assembly is the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature.Since the election of 1967 , the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts for a term of two years, each representing districts with average...

by Domenick DiCicco

Domenick DiCicco

Domenick DiCicco Jr. is an American Republican Party politician who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2010, where he represents the 4th Legislative District....

Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

, Franklin Township

Franklin Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey

Franklin Township is a township in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 15,466....

) and Paul Moriarty

Paul Moriarty

Paul Moriarty is an American Democratic Party politician, who serves in the New Jersey General Assembly where he represents the 4th Legislative District, having taken office on January 10, 2006....

Democratic Party (United States)

, Washington Township

Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey

Election history

In March 1989, five-term incumbent Dennis L. Riley announced that he would not be running for another term in the Assembly, and endorsed Gloucester Township Mayor Ann A. Mullen to fill his seat.

After years in which the district had been solidly Democratic, the Republican sweep in 1991 led to a period in which the district became what PolitickerNJ

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called the "#1 swing seat" in the state for more than a decade. In the 1991 elections, attorney John J. Matheussen

John J. Matheussen

John J. Matheussen is an American Republican Party politician. He served in the New Jersey Senate from 1992 to 2003, where he represented the 4th Legislative District....

won the open seat of the departing incumbent Democrat Daniel J. Dalton who had left office to take the post of Secretary of State of New Jersey

Secretary of State of New Jersey

The Secretary of State of New Jersey is responsible for overseeing artistic, cultural, and historical programs within the U.S. state of New Jersey, as well as volunteerism and community service projects within the state....

, having been nominated for the position by Governor of New Jersey

Governor of New Jersey

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James Florio

James Joseph "Jim" Florio is a Democratic politician who served as the 49th Governor of New Jersey from 1990 to 1994, the first Italian American to hold the position...

. In the 1991 Assembly race George F. Geist and Mary Virginia Weber took the seat of incumbent Ann A. Mullen and her Democratic running mate Timothy D. Scaffidi.

Sean F. Dalton

Sean F. Dalton

Sean F. Dalton is an American Democratic Party politician who served two terms in the New Jersey General Assembly, where he represented the 4th Legislative District....

, won an Assembly seat in the 1993 election in a split verdict, with Republican George Geist coming in first, Dalton in second, incumbent Republican Mary Virginia Weber out of the money in third place and Dalton's running mate Sandra Love

Sandra Love

Sandra Love is an American Democratic Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly since January 8, 2008 to January 12, 2010, where she represented the 4th Legislative District....

in fourth. Geist and Dalton were re-elected in 1995, with Democrat Chris Manganello in third and Republican Gerald Luongo

Gerald Luongo

Gerald J. Luongo is an American Republican Party politician, who served one term in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1998 to 2000, where he represented the 4th Legislative District.-Biography:...

in fourth. The $1 million spent by the candidates in the 1993 Assembly race was the most of any district in the state, and The New York Times
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predicted that the parties would spend heavily in the 1995 race as each side tries to gain both seats. Dalton ran in 1997, and lost, in a bid for the New Jersey Senate

New Jersey Senate

seat held by John J. Matheussen

John J. Matheussen

John J. Matheussen is an American Republican Party politician. He served in the New Jersey Senate from 1992 to 2003, where he represented the 4th Legislative District....

, with Matheussen taking 50.7% of the vote, Dalton receiving 46.1% and Jame E. Barber garnering 3.2% of the vote. With Dalton's seat open in the Assembly, Geist won re-election as did his running mate Gerald Luongo

Gerald Luongo

Gerald J. Luongo is an American Republican Party politician, who served one term in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1998 to 2000, where he represented the 4th Legislative District.-Biography:...

. With Luongo receiving negative press over what The New York Times
The New York Times
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called a "questionable land deal", Democrat Robert J. Smith II

Robert J. Smith II

Robert J. Smith II is an American Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 4th Legislative District from 2000-2006. He was the Assistant Majority Whip from 2002 until he left office in 2006.Smith did not seek reelection in 2005...

knocked off Luongo in the 1999 general election, while Geist was re-elected.

Matheussen was nominated by Governor of New Jersey

Governor of New Jersey

Jim McGreevey

James Edward "Jim" McGreevey is an American Democratic politician. He served as the 52nd Governor of New Jersey from January 15, 2002, until he resigned from office at 11:59 pm on November 15, 2004. His term was set to expire on January 17, 2006...

in February 2003 to head the Delaware River Port Authority

Delaware River Port Authority

The Delaware River Port Authority is a bi-state instrumentality created by a Congressionally approved interstate compact between the governments of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey...

. After Matheussen resigned from the Senate in May 2003 to take the post at the DRPA, his Senate seat was filled by Assemblyman George Geist. In turn, the Republicans named Stephen Altamuro to fill Geist's vacancy in the Assembly. In the 2003 elections, the Democrats swept all three legislative seats, with Fred H. Madden

Fred H. Madden

Fred H. Madden, Jr. is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey State Senate since 2004, where he represents the 4th Legislative District....

defeating Geist in the Senate, and David R. Mayer

David R. Mayer

David R. Mayer is an American Democratic Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2002 to 2008, where he represented the 4th Legislative District....

and Robert J. Smith II

Robert J. Smith II

winning in the Assembly race, knocking off incumbent Altamuro.

Session	State Senate	Assembly
1976-1977	Joseph A. Maressa	Kenneth A. Gewertz	Francis J. Gorman
1978-1979	Joseph A. Maressa	Kenneth A. Gewertz	Francis J. Gorman
1980-1981	Joseph A. Maressa	Daniel J. Dalton	Dennis L. Riley
1982-1983	Daniel J. Dalton	Anthony S. Marsella	Dennis L. Riley
1984-1985	Daniel J. Dalton	Anthony S. Marsella	Dennis L. Riley
1986-1987	Daniel J. Dalton	Anthony S. Marsella	Dennis L. Riley
1988-1989	Daniel J. Dalton	Anthony S. Marsella	Dennis L. Riley
1990-1991	Daniel J. Dalton	Anthony S. Marsella	Ann A. Mullen
1992-1993	John J. Matheussen John J. Matheussen John J. Matheussen is an American Republican Party politician. He served in the New Jersey Senate from 1992 to 2003, where he represented the 4th Legislative District....	George Geist George Geist George F. Geist is an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey State Senate from 2003 to 2004, where he represented the 4th Legislative District. He had earlier served six terms in the General Assembly, from 1992 to 2003.Geist was appointed in May 2003 to fill the Senate...	Mary Virginia Weber
1994-1995	John J. Matheussen John J. Matheussen John J. Matheussen is an American Republican Party politician. He served in the New Jersey Senate from 1992 to 2003, where he represented the 4th Legislative District....	Sean F. Dalton Sean F. Dalton Sean F. Dalton is an American Democratic Party politician who served two terms in the New Jersey General Assembly, where he represented the 4th Legislative District....	George Geist George Geist George F. Geist is an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey State Senate from 2003 to 2004, where he represented the 4th Legislative District. He had earlier served six terms in the General Assembly, from 1992 to 2003.Geist was appointed in May 2003 to fill the Senate...
1996-1997	John J. Matheussen John J. Matheussen John J. Matheussen is an American Republican Party politician. He served in the New Jersey Senate from 1992 to 2003, where he represented the 4th Legislative District....	Sean F. Dalton Sean F. Dalton Sean F. Dalton is an American Democratic Party politician who served two terms in the New Jersey General Assembly, where he represented the 4th Legislative District....	George Geist George Geist George F. Geist is an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey State Senate from 2003 to 2004, where he represented the 4th Legislative District. He had earlier served six terms in the General Assembly, from 1992 to 2003.Geist was appointed in May 2003 to fill the Senate...
1998-1999	John J. Matheussen John J. Matheussen John J. Matheussen is an American Republican Party politician. He served in the New Jersey Senate from 1992 to 2003, where he represented the 4th Legislative District....	George Geist George Geist George F. Geist is an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey State Senate from 2003 to 2004, where he represented the 4th Legislative District. He had earlier served six terms in the General Assembly, from 1992 to 2003.Geist was appointed in May 2003 to fill the Senate...	Gerald Luongo Gerald Luongo Gerald J. Luongo is an American Republican Party politician, who served one term in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1998 to 2000, where he represented the 4th Legislative District.-Biography:...
2000-2001	John J. Matheussen John J. Matheussen John J. Matheussen is an American Republican Party politician. He served in the New Jersey Senate from 1992 to 2003, where he represented the 4th Legislative District....	George Geist George Geist George F. Geist is an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey State Senate from 2003 to 2004, where he represented the 4th Legislative District. He had earlier served six terms in the General Assembly, from 1992 to 2003.Geist was appointed in May 2003 to fill the Senate...	Robert J. Smith II Robert J. Smith II Robert J. Smith II is an American Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 4th Legislative District from 2000-2006. He was the Assistant Majority Whip from 2002 until he left office in 2006.Smith did not seek reelection in 2005...
2002-2003	John J. Matheussen John J. Matheussen John J. Matheussen is an American Republican Party politician. He served in the New Jersey Senate from 1992 to 2003, where he represented the 4th Legislative District....	George Geist George Geist George F. Geist is an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey State Senate from 2003 to 2004, where he represented the 4th Legislative District. He had earlier served six terms in the General Assembly, from 1992 to 2003.Geist was appointed in May 2003 to fill the Senate...	Robert J. Smith II Robert J. Smith II Robert J. Smith II is an American Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 4th Legislative District from 2000-2006. He was the Assistant Majority Whip from 2002 until he left office in 2006.Smith did not seek reelection in 2005...
2004-2005	Fred H. Madden Fred H. Madden Fred H. Madden, Jr. is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey State Senate since 2004, where he represents the 4th Legislative District....	David R. Mayer David R. Mayer David R. Mayer is an American Democratic Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2002 to 2008, where he represented the 4th Legislative District....	Robert J. Smith II Robert J. Smith II Robert J. Smith II is an American Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 4th Legislative District from 2000-2006. He was the Assistant Majority Whip from 2002 until he left office in 2006.Smith did not seek reelection in 2005...
2006-2007	Fred H. Madden Fred H. Madden Fred H. Madden, Jr. is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey State Senate since 2004, where he represents the 4th Legislative District....	David R. Mayer David R. Mayer David R. Mayer is an American Democratic Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2002 to 2008, where he represented the 4th Legislative District....	Paul Moriarty Paul Moriarty Paul Moriarty is an American Democratic Party politician, who serves in the New Jersey General Assembly where he represents the 4th Legislative District, having taken office on January 10, 2006....
2008-2009	Fred H. Madden Fred H. Madden Fred H. Madden, Jr. is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey State Senate since 2004, where he represents the 4th Legislative District....	Sandra Love Sandra Love Sandra Love is an American Democratic Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly since January 8, 2008 to January 12, 2010, where she represented the 4th Legislative District....	Paul Moriarty Paul Moriarty Paul Moriarty is an American Democratic Party politician, who serves in the New Jersey General Assembly where he represents the 4th Legislative District, having taken office on January 10, 2006....
2010-2011	Fred H. Madden Fred H. Madden Fred H. Madden, Jr. is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey State Senate since 2004, where he represents the 4th Legislative District....	Domenick DiCicco Domenick DiCicco Domenick DiCicco Jr. is an American Republican Party politician who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2010, where he represents the 4th Legislative District....	Paul Moriarty Paul Moriarty Paul Moriarty is an American Democratic Party politician, who serves in the New Jersey General Assembly where he represents the 4th Legislative District, having taken office on January 10, 2006....

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