Democrats Win Assembly Seats, Republicans Win Freeholder Seats in Burlington County

Democratic incumbents held on to both General Assembly seats in the Seventh Legislative District during Tuesday night’s election.

Herb Conaway and Troy Singleton defeated Republican challengers Bill Conley and Rob Prisco in unofficial results posted online.

Conaway had 31 percent of the vote and Singleton won 30 percent of the vote. Conley won 20 percent and Prisco garnered 19 percent of the vote.

The district covers parts of Burlington County, including Cinnaminson.

The Burlington County Freeholders race went in a different direction, as Republicans Ryan Peters and Kate Gibbs unseated Democratic incumbents Aimee Belgard and Joanne Schwartz, according to unofficial results posted on the county’s website late Tuesday night.

Gibbs earned 27,812 votes, and Peters won 27,707 votes. Belgard won 26,565 votes and Schwartz won 26,180 votes. There were 97 write-in votes, and provisional ballots had yet to be tallied. They were tentatively scheduled to be counted on Monday.

In Cinnaminson, Mayor John McCarthy and Committee Member Don Brauckmann, both Republicans, ran unopposed in this year’s general election.

McCarthy earned 1,710 votes and Brauckmann drew 1,682 votes in a town with a voter registration of 11,631, according to revised numbers provided by Cinnaminson Clerk Pam McCartney Wednesday morning.

Likewise, the Board of Education election was uncontested, as Christine Turner ran unopposed in the special election for the Cinnaminson School Board seat she was appointed to fill earlier this year. She drew 1,768 votes.

Board Vice President James McGuckin and Board Members Laura Fitzwater and Dolores Woodington all ran unopposed in their re-election bids for three full-term seats.

McGuckin and Woodington each had 1,661 votes. Fitzwater had 1,617 votes.