UPDATE: 10:47 p.m. Pascrell, in victory speech: “We did it! Now the real work starts.”  He thanks his wife, his family, his supporters and former Pres. Bill Clinton. With 98 percent of the vote counted, Pascrell took 60 percent of the vote — a margin that stunned pundits.

10:32 p.m. Rothman concedes to Pascrell in the New Jersey 9th, tells supporters he doesn’t expect to run for office ever again.

9:57 p.m.: The AP and the Star Ledger have declared Donald Payne Jr. the winner in 10th Democratic district race. He has 60 percent of the vote with 79 percent of the vote reported. Bill Pascrell maintains a strong lead in the 9th, with 73 percent of the vote and 55 percent of votes counted.

9:27 p.m. Early primary results suggest that Donald Payne Jr. will sweep the six-way Democratic race for the 10th Congressional district. At 9:27 p.m., with 27 percent of the vote counted, Payne Jr. leads with 54 percent of the vote. Nia Gill currently has 25 percent of the vote, followed by Ronald Rice with 16 percent.

In Essex County, election day turnout was just 9.79 percent.

Over in the hotly contested 9th, with about 26 percent of the vote counted, Bill Pascrell leads Steve Rothman with 88 percent of the vote.

Election results: Star Ledger. Photo: Live election coverage from NJTV.

3 replies on “Payne Jr. Wins in 10th, Rothman Concedes 9th”

  2. Reminds me of a line from Hendrix 1983…(a merman i should turn to be)

    …the machine has done its work well…

    Except Atlantis is not full of cheer for this one, and I haven’t become a merman despite my best efforts.

  3. Despite his uncomfortable past closeness to Michael Jackson, I cast my primary vote for Rabbi Shmuley. (Interesting point: you cannot once inside the booth press a button for a candidate of the other party in the primaries, I tried out of curiosity.) But he doesn’t have a real chance against the old party hack Pascrell, despite Pascrell’s own current uncomfortable closeness with area Muslim fundamentalist groups.

    Still, the debates might thus be interesting, though anyone who thinks the Rabbi will get any Muslim votes in either Paterson or Clifton is probably seriously deluded. And those votes, against the votes of Orthodox Jews from Bergen County, Passaic and Clifton, will be more than enough of a winning margin however well Shmuley does elsewhere. This really does have to be viewed as a Congressional election being held along religious but non-fundamentalist Christian grounds, and I wonder how long it will take the national media to catch on to this.

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