New Jersey General Assembly, 2016–17 term

The New Jersey General Assembly is the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature. The 2016–2017 term (217th legislative session) began on January 12, 2016 and will end on January 9, 2018. The Assembly members elected to this term were elected on November 3, 2015 (except for those since appointed or elected in special elections) and will serve until the end of the next term in 2018. This assembly session was preceded by the 2014–2015 session and will be followed by the 2018–2019 session.

Composition

Two Democratic members

Two Republican members

One Democratic and one Republican members

Affiliation	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)		Total

	Democratic	Republican		Vacancies
End of previous legislature	48	32	80	0
Begin^{[T 1]}	52	28	80	0
Latest voting share	7001650000000000000♠65%	7001350000000000000♠35%

↑ Does not account for brief vacancies as the appointed replacement will be of the same party of the previous office holder

District	Name	Party	Residence	First served
District 1	Bob Andrzejczak	Dem	Middle Township	2013^{[A 1]}
District 1	R. Bruce Land	Dem	Vineland	2016
District 2	Chris A. Brown	Rep	Ventnor City	2012
District 2	Vince Mazzeo	Dem	Northfield	2014
District 3	John J. Burzichelli	Dem	Paulsboro	2002
District 3	Adam Taliaferro	Dem	Woolwich Township	2015^{[A 1]}
District 4	Paul Moriarty	Dem	Washington Township (Gloucester)	2006
District 4	Gabriela Mosquera	Dem	Gloucester Township	2012^{[A 1]}
District 5	Arthur Barclay	Dem	Camden	2016
District 5	Patricia Egan Jones	Dem	Barrington	2015^{[A 1]}
District 6	Louis Greenwald	Dem	Voorhees Township	1996
District 6	Pamela Rosen Lampitt	Dem	Cherry Hill	2006
District 7	Herb Conaway	Dem	Delanco Township	1998
District 7	Troy Singleton	Dem	Palmyra	2011^{[A 1]}
District 8	Joe Howarth	Rep	Evesham Township	2016
District 8	Maria Rodriguez-Gregg	Rep	Evesham Township	2014
District 9	DiAnne Gove	Rep	Long Beach Township	2009^{[A 1]}
District 9	Brian E. Rumpf	Rep	Little Egg Harbor	2003^{[A 1]}
District 10	Gregory P. McGuckin	Rep	Toms River	2012
District 10	David W. Wolfe	Rep	Brick Township	1992
District 11	Joann Downey	Dem	Freehold Township	2016
District 11	Eric Houghtaling	Dem	Neptune Township	2016
District 12	Robert D. Clifton	Rep	Matawan	2012
District 12	Ronald S. Dancer	Rep	Plumsted Township	2002^{[A 1]}
District 13	Amy Handlin	Rep	Middletown Township	2006
District 13	Declan O'Scanlon	Rep	Little Silver	2008
District 14	Daniel R. Benson	Dem	Hamilton Township (Mercer)	2011^{[A 1]}
District 14	Wayne DeAngelo	Dem	Hamilton Township	2008
District 15	Reed Gusciora	Dem	Trenton	1996
District 15	Elizabeth Maher Muoio	Dem	Pennington	2015^{[A 1]}
District 16	Jack Ciattarelli	Rep	Hillsborough Township	2011^{[A 1]}
District 16	Andrew Zwicker	Dem	South Brunswick	2016
District 17	Joseph Danielsen	Dem	Franklin Township (Somerset)	2014^{[A 1]}
District 17	Joseph V. Egan	Dem	New Brunswick	2002
District 18	Robert Karabinchak	Dem	Edison	2016^{[A 1]}
District 18	Nancy Pinkin	Dem	East Brunswick	2014
District 19	Craig Coughlin	Dem	Woodbridge Township	2010
District 19	John S. Wisniewski	Dem	Sayreville	1996
District 20	Jamel C. Holley	Dem	Roselle	2015^{[A 1]}
District 20	Annette Quijano	Dem	Elizabeth	2008^{[A 1]}
District 21	Jon Bramnick	Rep	Westfield	2003^{[A 1]}
District 21	Nancy Munoz	Rep	Summit	2009^{[A 1]}
District 22	Jerry Green	Dem	Plainfield	1992
District 22	James J. Kennedy	Dem	Rahway	2016
District 23	John DiMaio	Rep	Hackettstown	2009^{[A 1]}
District 23	Erik Peterson	Rep	Franklin Township (Hunterdon)	2009^{[A 1]}
District 24	Parker Space	Rep	Wantage Township	2013^{[A 1]}
District 24	Gail Phoebus	Rep	Andover Township	2015^{[A 1]}
District 25	Tony Bucco	Rep	Boonton Township	2010
District 25	Michael Patrick Carroll	Rep	Morris Township	1996
District 26	BettyLou DeCroce	Rep	Parsippany-Troy Hills	2012^{[A 1]}
District 26	Jay Webber	Rep	Morris Plains	2008
District 27	Mila Jasey	Dem	South Orange	2007^{[A 1]}
District 27	John F. McKeon	Dem	West Orange	2002
District 28	Ralph R. Caputo	Dem	Bloomfield	2008^{[A 2]}
District 28	Cleopatra Tucker	Dem	Newark	2008
District 29	Eliana Pintor Marin	Dem	Newark	2013^{[A 1]}
District 29	Blonnie R. Watson	Dem	Newark	2016^{[A 1]}
District 30	Sean T. Kean	Rep	Wall Township	2012^{[A 3]}
District 30	Ned Thomson	Rep	Wall Township	2017^{[A 1]}
District 31	Nicholas Chiaravalloti	Dem	Bayonne	2016
District 31	Angela V. McKnight	Dem	Jersey City	2016
District 32	Angelica M. Jimenez	Dem	West New York	2012
District 32	Vincent Prieto	Dem	Secaucus	2004^{[A 1]}
District 33	Annette Chaparro	Dem	Hoboken	2016
District 33	Raj Mukherji	Dem	Jersey City	2014
District 34	Thomas P. Giblin	Dem	Montclair	2006
District 34	Sheila Y. Oliver	Dem	East Orange	2004
District 35	Shavonda E. Sumter	Dem	Paterson	2012
District 35	Benjie Wimberly	Dem	Paterson	2012
District 36	Marlene Caride	Dem	Ridgefield	2012
District 36	Gary Schaer	Dem	Passaic	2006
District 37	Valerie Huttle	Dem	Englewood	2006
District 37	Gordon M. Johnson	Dem	Englewood	2002
District 38	Tim Eustace	Dem	Maywood	2012
District 38	Joseph Lagana	Dem	Paramus	2014
District 39	Holly Schepisi	Rep	River Vale	2012
District 39	Robert Auth	Rep	Old Tappan	2010
District 40	David C. Russo	Rep	Ridgewood	1990
District 40	Kevin J. Rooney	Rep	Wyckoff	2016^{[A 1]}

Former members from this term

District	Name	Party	Residence	First served	Left office	Cause
18th	Patrick J. Diegnan	Dem	South Plainfield	2002	May 9, 2016	Appointed to the District's Senate seat^[1]
29th	L. Grace Spencer	Dem	Newark	2008	June 30, 2016	Appointed as a judge to the New Jersey Superior Court^[2]
40th	Scott Rumana	Rep	Wayne	2008	October 20, 2016	Appointed as a judge to the New Jersey Superior Court^[3]
30th	Dave Rible	Rep	Wall Township	2008	July 17, 2017	Appointed Director of the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control^[4]

Notes

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 First appointed to the seat
↑ Served in the Assembly as a Republican from 1968–1972
↑ Served in the Assembly from 2002–2008

References

↑ Johnson, Brent. "Meet the newest member of the N.J. Legislature", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, May 26, 2016. Accessed August 21, 2016. "Robert Karabinchak, a Democrat, was appointed to represent Middlesex County's 18th District in the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature. He replaces Patrick Diegnan, a Democrat who recently moved across the Statehouse to replace Patrick [sic] Barnes III in the state Senate after Barnes was appointed as a state Superior Court judge in Middlesex County."
↑ Johnson, Brent. "N.J. Assemblywoman becomes judge, leaves seat open", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, July 1, 2016. Accessed August 21, 2016. "Grace Spencer, who has represented New Jersey's largest city for eight years in the state Assembly, has been confirmed to become a state Superior Court judge in Essex County.... Gov. Chris Christie nominated Spencer (D-Essex) — whose legislative district includes Newark, the most populous municipality in the state — to the bench last month. She was confirmed by the state Senate on Thursday."
↑ Ensslin, John C. "Assembly regulates ride-hailing services, votes on more than 100 bills", Asbury Park Press, October 20, 2016. Accessed December 12, 2016. "Assembly members also gave a standing ovation to Rumana, who took part in his final session as a legislator after learning that the Senate had confirmed his appointment to a judgeship. The former Wayne mayor, is following in the footsteps of his father, who also was a Superior Court judge in Passaic County."
↑ Johnson, Brent (July 18, 2017). "Christie appoints top Republican lawmaker to state post". NJ.com. Retrieved August 24, 2017.

External links

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[1] Does not account for brief vacancies as the appointed replacement will be of the same party of the previous office holder

[Appointed-2] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 First appointed to the seat

[3] Served in the Assembly as a Republican from 1968–1972

[4] Served in the Assembly from 2002–2008

[5] Johnson, Brent. "Meet the newest member of the N.J. Legislature", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, May 26, 2016. Accessed August 21, 2016. "Robert Karabinchak, a Democrat, was appointed to represent Middlesex County's 18th District in the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature. He replaces Patrick Diegnan, a Democrat who recently moved across the Statehouse to replace Patrick [sic] Barnes III in the state Senate after Barnes was appointed as a state Superior Court judge in Middlesex County."

[6] Johnson, Brent. "N.J. Assemblywoman becomes judge, leaves seat open", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, July 1, 2016. Accessed August 21, 2016. "Grace Spencer, who has represented New Jersey's largest city for eight years in the state Assembly, has been confirmed to become a state Superior Court judge in Essex County.... Gov. Chris Christie nominated Spencer (D-Essex) — whose legislative district includes Newark, the most populous municipality in the state — to the bench last month. She was confirmed by the state Senate on Thursday."

[7] Ensslin, John C. "Assembly regulates ride-hailing services, votes on more than 100 bills", Asbury Park Press, October 20, 2016. Accessed December 12, 2016. "Assembly members also gave a standing ovation to Rumana, who took part in his final session as a legislator after learning that the Senate had confirmed his appointment to a judgeship. The former Wayne mayor, is following in the footsteps of his father, who also was a Superior Court judge in Passaic County."

[8] Johnson, Brent (July 18, 2017). "Christie appoints top Republican lawmaker to state post". NJ.com. Retrieved August 24, 2017.