It's been 126 years since Dems won Saxton seat, 54 for Ferguson seat; 34 since GOP won Andrews seat
The two New Jersey House seats most clearly in play next year are the two that have been held by the Republicans for the longest period of time: Democrats have not won the seat now held by Jim Saxton for 126 years, and Mike Ferguson’s district has not elected a Democrat since 1954.
Republicans have held Saxton’s House seat continuously since 1884, when George Hires, a GOP State Senator from Salem County, ousted one-term Democratic Congressman Thomas Ferrell by 1,742 votes. The last Democratic Congressman from Ferguson’s district was Harrison Williams, who lost his 1956 re-election bid to Florence Dwyer, then a GOP Assemblywoman. And the last time Republicans held Rob Andrews’ seat was John Hunt, who lost his bid for a fifth term to Democrat Jim Florio in 1974.
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sorry Dale Glading
you might as well be a ficus tree.
Master of misleading
The congressional districts are re-drawn every 10 years so how is it possible for your proclamations to be true?