# 1965 New Jersey Senate election

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The 1965 New Jersey Senate elections were held on November 2.
The elections were the first held after the Supreme Court's Reynolds v. Sims decision, which held that New Jersey's single-seat county apportionment was unconstitutional. The ruling forced New Jersey to grant multiple seats to its largest counties (and eventually, switch to single-member districts that did not follow county lines).
The election also coincided with a landslide re-election victory for Democratic Governor Richard J. Hughes.
The result was a majority for the Democratic Party, the first since 1915.

## Background
### Reapportioning

Until 1965, the New Jersey State Senate was composed of 21 senators, with each county electing one senator. After the U.S. Supreme Court decision Reynolds v. Sims required legislative districts to be approximately equal in population (a principle known as "one man, one vote"), New Jersey entered a decade-long period of reapportionment.
The overall effect of the reapportioning was to reduce representation for rural counties and increase representation for more populous urban counties, bringing the per person population closer to parity.
In 1965, the Senate was increased to 29 members, with larger counties given multiple seats and some smaller counties sharing one or two Senators:
| County | 1965 District | # | ∆ |
| Atlantic | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Cape May | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Gloucester | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Cumberland | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Salem | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Camden | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Burlington | 4 | 1 | |
| Monmouth | 5 | 2 | |
| Ocean | 5 | 2 | |
| Mercer | 6 | 1 | |
| Middlesex | 7 | 2 | 1 |
| Hunterdon | 8 | 1 | 1 |
| Somerset | 8 | 1 | 1 |
| Union | 9 | 2 | 1 |
| Morris | 10 | 2 | 1 |
| Sussex | 10 | 2 | 1 |
| Warren | 10 | 2 | 1 |
| Essex | 11 | 4 | 3 |
| Hudson | 12 | 3 | 2 |
| Bergen | 13 | 4 | 3 |
| Passaic | 14 | 2 | 1 |

## Incumbents not running for re-election
### Democratic

* Robert H. Weber (District 2) (managed John Waddington's campaign)

### Republican

* Charles W. Sandman (District 1) (ran for Governor)
* W. Steelman Mathis (District 5)
* Wayne Dumont (District 10) (ran for Governor)

## Summary of results by State Senate District

| County | Incumbent | Party | Party | New District | Elected Senator | Party | Party |
| Atlantic | Frank S. Farley | | Rep | District 1 | John E. Hunt | | Rep |
| Cape May | Charles W. Sandman | | Rep | District 1 | Frank S. Farley | | Rep |
| Gloucester | John E. Hunt | | Rep | District 1 | Seat eliminated | Seat eliminated | Seat eliminated |
| Cumberland | Robert H. Weber | | Dem | District 2 | John A. Waddington | | Dem |
| Salem | John A. Waddington | | Dem | District 2 | Seat eliminated | Seat eliminated | Seat eliminated |
| Camden | Frederick J. Scholz | | Rep | District 3 | Frederick J. Scholz | | Rep |
| Camden | New seat | New seat | New seat | District 3 | A. Donald Bigley | | Dem |
| Burlington | Edwin B. Forsythe | | Rep | District 4 | Edwin B. Forsythe | | Rep |
| Monmouth | Richard R. Stout | | Rep | District 5 | Richard R. Stout | | Rep |
| Ocean | W. Steelman Mathis | | Rep | District 5 | William T. Hiering | | Rep |
| Mercer | Sido L. Ridolfi | | Dem | District 6 | Sido L. Ridolfi | | Dem |
| Middlesex | John A. Lynch | | Dem | District 7 | John A. Lynch | | Dem |
| Middlesex | New seat | New seat | New seat | District 7 | J. Edward Crabiel | | Dem |
| Hunterdon | Vacant | Vacant | Vacant | District 8 | William E. Ozzard | | Rep |
| Somerset | William E. Ozzard | | Rep | District 8 | Seat eliminated | Seat eliminated | Seat eliminated |
| Union | Nelson F. Stamler | | Rep | District 9 | Nelson F. Stamler | | Rep |
| Union | New seat | New seat | New seat | District 9 | Mildred Barry Hughes | | Dem |
| Morris | Thomas J. Hillery | | Rep | District 10 | Thomas J. Hillery | | Rep |
| Sussex | Vacant | Vacant | Vacant | District 10 | Milton Woolfenden | | Rep |
| Warren | Wayne Dumont | | Rep | District 10 | Seat eliminated | Seat eliminated | Seat eliminated |
| Essex | C. Robert Sarcone | | Rep | District 11 | Nicholas Fernicola | | Dem |
| Essex | New seat | New seat | New seat | District 11 | Macyln Goldman | | Dem |
| Essex | New seat | New seat | New seat | District 11 | John J. Giblin | | Dem |
| Essex | New seat | New seat | New seat | District 11 | Hutchins Inge | | Dem |
| Hudson | William F. Kelly | | Dem | District 12 | William Musto | | Dem |
| Hudson | New seat | New seat | New seat | District 12 | William F. Kelly | | Dem |
| Hudson | New seat | New seat | New seat | District 12 | Frank Guarini | | Dem |
| Bergen | Pierce H. Deamer Jr. | | Rep | District 13 | Ned Parsekian | | Dem |
| Bergen | New seat | New seat | New seat | District 13 | Matt Feldman | | Dem |
| Bergen | New seat | New seat | New seat | District 13 | Jeremiah F. O'Connor | | Dem |
| Bergen | New seat | New seat | New seat | District 13 | Alfred W. Kiefer | | Dem |
| Passaic | Anthony J. Grossi | | Dem | District 14 | Anthony J. Grossi | | Dem |
| Passaic | New seat | New seat | New seat | District 14 | Joseph M. Keegan | | Dem |
* ↑ The seat was vacant following the death of Senator Raymond E. Bowkley in April 1965.
* ↑ The seat was vacant following the resignation of Senator George B. Harper, who resigned in 1964 to take office as New Jersey Auditor.

## District 1

District 1 (two seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | John E. Hunt (incumbent) | 75,373 | % |
| | Republican | Frank S. Farley (incumbent) | 69,767 | % |
| | Democratic | Leo T. Clark | 65,059 | |
| | Democratic | Edward Savage | 59,959 | |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | | 100.00% |

## District 2

District 2 (one seat) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | John A. Waddington (incumbent) | 32,292 | 56.97% |
| | Republican | John J. Spoltore | 24,390 | 43.03% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 56,682 | 100.00% |

## District 3

District 3 (two seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Frederick J. Scholz | 66,509 | % |
| | Democratic | A. Donald Bigley | 62,396 | 51.22% |
| | Democratic | Alfred R. Pierce | 61,285 | |
| | Republican | John H. Mohrfeld III | 59,359 | |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | | 100.00% |

## District 4

District 4 (one seat) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Edwin B. Forsythe | 34,098 | 52.69% |
| | Democratic | George H. Barbour | 30,617 | 47.31% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 64,715 | 100.00% |

## District 5

District 4 (one seat) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Richard R. Stout | 99,688 | 28.4% |
| | Republican | William T. Hiering | 95,282 | 27.2% |
| | Democratic | John J. Reilly | 80,832 | 23.1% |
| | Democratic | Thomas J. Muccifori | 74,857 | 21.2% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 350,659 | 100.00% |

## District 6

1965 general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Sido L. Ridolfi (incumbent) | 56,231 | 62.2% |
| | Republican | William E. Schluter | 33,821 | 37.4% |
| | Socialist Labor | Joseph J. Frank | 284 | 0.3% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 90,336 | 100.00% |

## District 7

1965 general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | John A. Lynch (incumbent) | 114,955 | 34.2% |
| | Democratic | J. Edward Crabiel | 111,893 | 33.3% |
| | Republican | Edgar Hellriegel | 55,154 | 16.4% |
| | Republican | Albert L. Ichel | 54,470 | 16.2% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 336,472 | 100.00% |

## District 8

1965 general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | William E. Ozzard (incumbent) | 39,596 | 50.3% |
| | Democratic | Arthur S. Meredith | 39,185 | 49.7% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 78,781 | 100.0 |

## District 9

1965 general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Nelson Stamler (incumbent) | 99,327 | 27.4% |
| | Democratic | Mildred Barry Hughes | 92,102 | 25.4% |
| | Republican | Peter McDonough | 90,261 | 24.9% |
| | Democratic | William P. Hourihan | 81,226 | 22.4% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 362,916 | 100.00% |

## District 10

1965 general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Thomas J. Hillery (incumbent) | 89,839 | 31.4% |
| | Republican | Milton Woolfenden Jr. | 85,192 | 29.8% |
| | Democratic | Ruth C. Mitchell | 57,038 | 20.0% |
| | Democratic | Irene Mackey Smith | 53,823 | 18.8% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 285,892 | 100.00% |

## District 11

1965 general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Nicholas Fernicola | 145,589 | 13.7% |
| | Democratic | Maclyn Goldman | 143,795 | 13.5% |
| | Democratic | John J. Giblin | 143,040 | 13.4% |
| | Democratic | Hutchins F. Inge | 135,959 | 12.8% |
| | Republican | C. Robert Sarcone (incumbent) | 128,815 | 12.1% |
| | Republican | Irwin I. Kimmelman | 116,205 | 10.9% |
| | Republican | James E. Churchman, Jr. | 112,995 | 10.6% |
| | Republican | William F. Tompkins | 112,128 | 10.5% |
| | Independent | George C. Richardson | 10,409 | 1.0% |
| | Independent | Kenrick O. Stephenson | 5,970 | 0.6% |
| | Independent | David Blumgart | 5,305 | 0.5% |
| | Independent | Fredrick Waring | 4,476 | 0.4% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 1,064,686 | 100.00% |
* 1 2 3 4 Richardson, Stephenson, Blumgart, and Waring ran on the "United Political Freedom" line.

## District 12

1965 general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | William Musto | 154,183 | 24.7% |
| | Democratic | William F. Kelly Jr. (incumbent) | 152,975 | 24.6% |
| | Democratic | Frank Guarini | 152,263 | 24.4% |
| | Republican | William Bozzuffi | 52,363 | 8.4% |
| | Republican | John J. Grossi, Jr. | 51,891 | 8.3% |
| | Republican | Victoria Borsett | 50,649 | 8.1% |
| | Independent | James C. Lynch | 3,204 | 0.5% |
| | Independent | Beatrice Waiss | 2,772 | 0.4% |
| | Independent | Willie Mae Mason | 2,741 | 0.4% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 623,041 | 100.00% |
* 1 2 3 Lynch, Waiss, and Mason ran on "The New Frontier" line.

## District 13

1965 general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Ned J. Parsekian | 174,438 | 14.1% |
| | Democratic | Matthew Feldman | 159,236 | 12.9% |
| | Democratic | Jeremiah F. O'Connor | 156,888 | 12.7% |
| | Democratic | Alfred W. Kiefer | 152,844 | 12.4% |
| | Republican | Peter Moraites | 148,092 | 12.0% |
| | Republican | Marion West Higgins | 148,035 | 12.0% |
| | Republican | Arthur W. Vervaet | 144,890 | 11.7% |
| | Republican | Nelson G. Gross | 143,532 | 11.6% |
| | Conservative | Thomas J. Moriarty | 4,408 | 0.4% |
| | Independent | Louis Berns | 1,256 | 0.1% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 1,233,619 | 100.00% |
* ↑ Berns ran on the "Fusion" line.

## District 14

1965 general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Anthony J. Grossi (incumbent) | 75,497 | 28.8% |
| | Democratic | Joseph M. Keegan | 73,698 | 28.1% |
| | Republican | Arthur J. Sullivan | 57,326 | 21.9% |
| | Republican | John F. Evers | 55,042 | 21.0% |
| | Socialist Labor | Harry Santhouse | 442 | 0.2% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 262,005 | 100.00% |