14th Legislative District (New Jersey)


New Jersey's 14th Legislative District is one of 40 in the New Jersey Legislature, covering the Mercer County municipalities of East Windsor Township, Hamilton Township, Hightstown Borough and Robbinsville Township; and the Middlesex County municipalities of Cranbury Township, Jamesburg Borough, Monroe Township, Plainsboro Township and Spotswood Borough as of the 2011 apportionment.

Demographic characteristics

As of the 2010 United States Census, the district had a population of 230,937, of whom 176,857 were of voting age. The racial makeup of the district was 155,698 White, 18,801 African American, 106 Native American, 45,109 Asian, 106 Pacific Islander, 5,915 from some other race, and 4,906 from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 17,975 of the population. The district had 161,998 registered voters as of February 1, 2020, of whom 67,369 were registered as unaffiliated, 59,552 were registered as Democrats, 33,120 were registered as Republicans, and 1,957 were registered to other parties.

Political representation

The district is represented for the 2020–2021 Legislative Session in the State Senate by Linda R. Greenstein and in the General Assembly by Wayne DeAngelo and Daniel R. Benson.

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 14th District consisted of all of Passaic County. For the Senate, two members were elected at-large in the 1965 election for a two-year term, while three members were elected in 1967 for a four-year term and 1971 for a two-year term.
The members elected to the Senate from this district are as follows:
SessionSenators
elected
1966–19672Anthony J. Grossi Joseph M. Keegan -
1968–19693Ira Schoem Frank J. Sciro Edward Sisco
1970–19713Ira Schoem Frank J. Sciro Edward Sisco
1972–19733Joseph Hirkala Joseph A. Lazzara William J. Bate

For the members of the Assembly elected from Passaic County, the election method changed in every general election during this interim period. In 1967, two members were elected at-large from the entire county, while the county was split into three Assembly districts with one member elected from each district. Then in the 1969 election, one member was elected at-large and two Assembly districts in the county each elected two members. The election of 1971 reverted to the original 1967 method of electing Assembly members.
The members elected to the Assembly from each district are as follows:
SessionDistrict 14 At-largeDistrict 14ADistrict 14BDistrict 14C
1968–1969Joseph F. Scancarella Joseph Hirkala Augustus T. Capers John F. Evers
1968–1969Alfred Fontanella Joseph Hirkala Augustus T. Capers John F. Evers
1970–1971John F. Evers Alfred Fontanella Joseph Hirkala Seat eliminated
1970–1971John F. Evers James White Joseph F. Scancarella Seat eliminated
1972–1973Vincent O. Pellecchia Herb Klein William H. Hicks John F. Evers
1972–1973John J. Sinsimer Herb Klein William H. Hicks Michael M. Horn

District composition since 1973

When the 40-district legislative map was created in 1973, the 14th District originally included municipalities in western Morris County, all of Hunterdon County, New Jersey save for Readington Township, in Mercer County Ewing Township, Hopewell and Princeton townships and their enclosed boroughs, and Plainsboro and Cranbury townships in Middlesex. It took on a shape similar to its current configuration in 1981 when the 14th stretched from Hamilton, up eastern Mercer County, southwestern Middlesex, and Rocky Hill, Millstone, Manville, and Franklin Township in Somerset County. In the 1991 redistricting, the Somerset County portions of the district were removed but Monroe Township, Jamesburg, and Helmetta were added to the district. Washington Township, East Windsor, Hightstown, and Helmetta were removed from the district in the 2001 redistricting; the Hamilton Township-Middlesex County connection was made through West Windsor Township. East Windsor, Hightstown, and Robbinsville were restored to the district in the 2011 redistricting, West Windsor and South Brunswick were shifted to other districts, and Spotswood was added to the 14th for the first time.

Election history

Election results, 1973–present

Senate

Assembly

Election results, 1965–1973

Senate

Assembly

District 14 At-large

District 14A

District 14B

District 14C