Added Security, Staff Looks Likely In Hillsborough: Unofficial Results

Updated as of 11:11 p.m.

HILLSBOROUGH, NJ — The 2023 unofficial General Election votes are showing that Hillsborough School District's referendum for added security and staff is likely to pass, according to unofficial results.

Hillsborough voters were asked to spend a total of an additional $2.8 million to create a security department and add staffing at the school district.

Here are the real-time unofficial results for the Referendum, and Board of Education candidates. According to Somerset County, 97.22 percent of the districts have reported. However, these results remain unofficial until all mail-in and provisional ballots are counted:

Referendum - Adding Staffing

• Yes - 2,761
• No - 2,075

Referendum - Security Department

• Yes - 5,793
• No - 4,677

Board of Education:

There are four candidates running for the three, three-year full-term seats up for grabs on the BOE:

• Cassandra Kragh - 5,871
• Paul Marini* - 5,813
• Cynthia DeCavalcante Nurse* - 6,886
• Pritpal S. Phanda - 3,227

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