See How Bridgewater Voted In School Board, County, Congressional Races 2022

BRIDGEWATER, NJ — Election day has passed, and just taking a look at how Bridgewater voted - the township definitely leans more to the red.

It's important to keep in mind these are the unofficial results for the 2022 general election and may not include absentee ballots, mail-in-votes, and early voting. Final certification of the results must be done by Nov. 26.

Despite that let's take a look at what has come in. For the hotly contested and close New Jersey District 7, Bridgewater favored Republican Tom Kean Jr. with 5,966 total votes over Democratic incumbent Malinowski with 4,227 votes. Kean Jr. did win overall after Malinowski conceded on Wednesday, according to unofficial results.

On the county level, while Democratic candidates running for Somerset County Sheriff, Clerk and Commissioner won, according to unofficial results, Bridgewater still favored the Republican candidates.

Incumbent Democrat Darrin Russo won overall for another term serving as Somerset County Sheriff. However, Bridgewater favored Republican John Sheridan with 6,276 votes over Russo's 4,280.

The same goes for Somerset County Clerk, where incumbent Democrat Steve Peter won overall yet Bridgewater favored Republican Suzanne Maeder with 6,379 votes over Peter's 4,161 votes.

The Board of County Commissioners also saw the same trend with incumbent Democrat Melanie Marano winning overall yet Bridgewater favored Republican Amber Murad with 6,283 votes over Marano's 4,176 votes.

There was no township council race this year but there were seven candidates vying for the three, three-year Board of Education seats.

Incumbent Steven Singer along with Emily Calistri and Lanfang "Lucy" Li won over incumbent Lynne Hurley along with Sally Bartlett, Saad Toor, and June Wang, according to unofficial results released by the Bridgewater Township Clerk.

Singer had 3,999 votes, Calistri had 5,193 votes and Li had 3,792 votes over Hurly with 3,014, Bartlett with 2,723, Toor with 1,558, and Wang with 2,994.

Below is a look at how the districts voted in the township and also on the county website here:

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