GOP Ticket Wins, Incumbents Lead Democratic Primary For Assembly In District 4

Editor's note: This article was last updated at 11:06 p.m. Tuesday.

SOUTH JERSEY — The Democratic incumbents lead, while a joint ticket has won the Republican primary for State Assembly in New Jersey's 4th legislative district on Tuesday night, according to the Associated Press.

Assembly Members Dan Hutchison and Cody Miller — both Democrats — lead primary challengers Vonetta Hawkins and Brian Everett with 69 percent of votes counted as of 10:30 p.m., the AP says.

Meanwhile, the AP called the three-candidate Republican race for Amanda Esposito and Gerard McManus just before 11 p.m.

The primary winners will advance to the General Election on Nov. 4, which will also include any third-party or independent candidates who enter the race.

All State Assembly seats are up for election this year — as is the New Jersey governorship, which is slated for a showdown between Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat, and former Assembly Member Jack Ciattarelli for the GOP.

District 4 includes portions of Atlantic, Camden and Gloucester counties. Democrats have held all of the district's Statehouse seats for the past decade. But it's been considered more of a battleground since redistricting a few years ago, but the Democratic candidates won the State Senate and Assembly elections in 2023.

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The results remain unofficial until certified on a later date.

Here are the tallies in the District 4 primaries as of this writing:

NEW JERSEY STATE ASSEMBLY, 4TH LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT

Democratic Party (vote for two)

69 percent of votes counted (AP estimates)

• Cody Miller: 13,937
• Dan Hutchison: 13,934
• Vonetta Hawkins: 9,504
• Brian Everett: 7,076

Republican Party (vote for two)

94 percent of votes counted (AP estimates)

• Amanda Esposito: 9,006*
• Gerard McManus: 8,196*
• Barbara McCormick: 6,601

*Declared the winner by the AP

District 4 contains Buena, Buena Vista, Chesilhurst, Franklin, Gloucester Township, Monroe, Newfield, Washington, Waterford and Winslow.