American legislative district
New Jersey's 13th legislative district is one of 40 in the state, covering the Monmouth County municipalities of Aberdeen Township , Atlantic Highlands Borough , West Long Branch , Hazlet Township , Highlands Borough , Holmdel Township , Keansburg Borough , Keyport Borough , Little Silver Borough , Marlboro Township , Middletown Township , Monmouth Beach Borough , Oceanport Borough , Rumson Borough , Sea Bright Borough and Union Beach Borough .[ 1]
Demographic characteristics
As of the 2020 United States census , the district had a population of 227,695, of whom 178,696 (78.5%) were of voting age. The racial makeup of the district was 181,986 (79.9%) White , 6,158 (2.7%) African American , 355 (0.2%) Native American , 17,581 (7.7%) Asian , 40 (0.0%) Pacific Islander , 5,858 (2.6%) from some other race , and 15,717 (6.9%) from two or more races.[ 2] [ 3] Hispanic or Latino of any race were 19,915 (8.7%) of the population.[ 4]
The district had 183,388 registered voters as of December 1, 2021, of whom 74,386 (40.6%) were registered as unaffiliated , 56,393 (30.8%) were registered as Republicans , 50,499 (27.5%) were registered as Democrats , and 2,110 (1.1%) were registered to other parties.[ 5]
Political representation
For the 2024-2025 session , the 13th legislative district of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the New Jersey Senate by Declan O'Scanlon (R , Little Silver ) and in the General Assembly by Vicky Flynn (R, Holmdel Township ) and Gerard Scharfenberger (R, Middletown Township ).[ 6]
The legislative district overlaps with New Jersey's 4th and 6th congressional districts.
1965–1973
In the interim period between the 1964 Supreme Court decision Reynolds v. Sims which required the creation of state legislature districts to be made as equal in population as possible and the 1973 creation of the 40-district map, the 13th district consisted of all of Bergen County . Senators were elected at-large from the entire county (four members in the 1965 election, five in the 1967 and 1971 elections) while the district was split into five Assembly districts that each elected two members.[ 7] [ 8] [ 9]
The members elected to the Senate from this district are as follows:[ 7] [ 10] [ 11]
^ Resigned November 29, 1973 to become a Bergen County Prosecutor
^ Resigned November 29, 1973 to become a Bergen County judge
The members elected to the Assembly from each district are as follows:[ 10] [ 12] [ 11]
^ Resigned September 1, 1971
^ Resigned April 30, 1973 to become personal counsel to Gov. William T. Cahill
District composition since 1973
When the 40-district legislative map was created in 1973, the 13th district was located in the capital region of the state, only including Trenton and Hamilton Township in Mercer County .[ 13] In the 1981 redistricting, the 13th was moved to encompass the northern Monmouth County shoreline (including Middletown Township, Hazlet, Matawan ) and Old Bridge Township in Middlesex County .[ 14] Following the 1991 redistricting, Matawan was removed but Spotswood in Middlesex County was added to the 13th.[ 15] The district reverted to its 1981 configuration in 2001 with the exception of the addition of Holmdel.[ 16] In the 2011 redistricting , the 13th district was located entirely in Monmouth County by removing Old Bridge and adding some of boroughs in the northeast corner of the county including Atlantic Highlands, Highlands, Monmouth Beach, and Oceanport.[ 1]
Helen Chiarello Szabo took office in a November 1976 special election to succeed S. Howard Woodson , who resigned in September 197 6to head the New Jersey Civil Service Commission . In turn, Szabo stepped down in September 1978 to become the superintendent of elections in Mercer County and was succeeded in a November 1978 special election by Gerald R. Stockman .[ 17]
Election history
^ Resigned September 27, 1976 to become head of New Jersey Civil Service Commission
^ Elected in November 1976 special election, sworn in on November 8, 1976
^ Resigned September 25, 1978 to become Mercer County elections superintendent
^ Elected in November 1978 special election, sworn in November 13, 1978
^ Resigned July 19, 1991 to take a job at the Sports and Exposition Authority
^ Appointed to the Senate on July 29, 1991
Election results, 1973–present
Senate
General Assembly
Election results, 1965–1973
Senate
General Assembly
District 13A
District 13B
District 13C
District 13D
District 13E
References
^ a b Districts by Number , New Jersey Legislature . Accessed January 29, 2014.
^ "RACE" . United States Census Bureau . Retrieved October 16, 2021 .
^ "RACE FOR THE POPULATION 18 YEARS AND OVER" . United States Census Bureau . Retrieved October 16, 2021 .
^ "HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE" . United States Census Bureau . Retrieved October 16, 2021 .
^ Statewide Voter Registration Summary , New Jersey Department of State , December 1, 2021. Accessed December 31, 2021.
^ Legislative Roster for District 13 , New Jersey Legislature . Accessed January 18, 2024.
^ a b c "Results of the General Election Held on November 2, 1965" (PDF) . Secretary of State of New Jersey . Archived from the original (PDF) on July 7, 2015. Retrieved July 18, 2015 .
^ New Jersey Apportionment Commission (July 20, 1967). "New Jersey Senate and Assembly Districts" (PDF) . Retrieved July 18, 2015 .
^ State of New Jersey (1971). "New Jersey Senate and Assembly Districts 1972–1973" (PDF) . Retrieved July 18, 2015 .
^ a b c d e f g h "Results of the General Election Held on November 7, 1967" (PDF) . Secretary of State of New Jersey. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 6, 2015. Retrieved July 18, 2015 .
^ a b c d e f g h "Results of the General Election Held on November 2, 1971" (PDF) . Secretary of State of New Jersey. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 6, 2015. Retrieved July 18, 2015 .
^ a b c d e f "Results of the General Election Held on November 4, 1969" (PDF) . Secretary of State of New Jersey. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 7, 2015. Retrieved July 18, 2015 .
^ "New Jersey Legislative Districts 1974–" (PDF) . New Jersey Legislative Services Agency. 1973. Retrieved July 18, 2015 .
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^ "2001 Legislative Districts" (PDF) . 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 11, 2011. Retrieved July 18, 2015 .
^ Mullin, Edward J. "The lone contest was hardly noticed" , Herald News , November 12, 1978. Accessed December 15, 2022, via Newspapers.com . "Stockman, a Democrat, was elected over Republican Mario D. Rossetti to complete the unexpired term of Mrs. Helen Chiarello Szabo as General Assembly member for the 13th District. Mrs. Szabo had resigned from the Assembly to take her new job as Mercer County superintendent of elections. Stockman will complete her term and presumably will run for re-election to a full two-year term next year. The pattern was sequential. Mrs. Szabo, a journeyman or journeywoman Trenton politician, had come into the Assembly in a special 1976 election to fill the unexpired term of the Rev. S. Howard Woodson, formerly speaker of the House, had resigned to take a better political job as president of the State Civil Service Commission."
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^ a b "Results of the General Election Held November 8, 1977" (PDF) . Secretary of State of New Jersey. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 3, 2016. Retrieved December 30, 2015 .
^ a b "Results of the General Election Held November 6, 1973" (PDF) . Secretary of State of New Jersey. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 30, 2015 .
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Districts are co-terminous for both
Senate and
General Assembly (each district elects
one Senator and
two members of the General Assembly)
Districts Apportionments