NJ-34 Primary Election Results: Table Set For November Showdown

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Voters in New Jersey’s 34th Legislative District went to the polls on Tuesday to vote for their party’s candidate in the 2023 primary election. The recently redrawn district includes Belleville, Bloomfield, East Orange, Glen Ridge, Nutley and Orange.

Each race was uncontested. Britnee Timberlake will get the Democratic Party nomination in the senate. Michael Venezia and Carmen Morales will get the Democratic Party nomination in the assembly, and James McGuire and Clenard H. Childress Jr. have earned the Republican Party nomination.

The candidates will meet again for a showdown in the general election, which takes place on Nov. 7.

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Assemblywoman Britnee Timberlake previously announced that she is running for the vacant senate seat left behind by Sen. Nia Gill, who is now campaigning in the 27th District due to redistricting.

Timberlake is sharing a Democratic Party slate with assembly candidates Michael Venezia, the mayor of Bloomfield, and Carmen Morales, a Belleville resident employed as a school principal in Newark.

Two Republican candidates are running for assembly seats in the 34th District: James McGuire and Clenard H. Childress Jr.

Thomas Giblin – who served as an assemblyman in the 34th since 2006 – recently retired and did not seek re-election.

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