Frank Pallone Wins NJ-6 Congress Seat Again, AP Says (Updated Results)

Last updated at 10:07 p.m.

NEW JERSEY — Rep. Frank Pallone has been re-elected to New Jersey's Sixth District Congress seat, according to the Associated Press.

The AP declared Pallone the victor by 10 p.m. Tuesday, while New Jersey's more competitive Congressional races awaited results. Pallone held 66,848 votes to Republican challenger Susan Kiley's 43,514 with 411 of 546 precincts reporting.

Pallone, 70, has represented New Jersey's Sixth Congressional District for the past 34 years, since he was first elected to Congress in 1988. Pallone started out as a Long Branch councilman and his brother, John Pallone, also a Democrat, is currently the mayor of Long Branch.

"NJ 6" stretches from Carteret and Woodbridge into Edison, New Brunswick and down to Asbury Park. It hugs the Raritan Bay coastline, including towns such as Aberdeen, Matawan, Hazlet, North Middletown, Sea Bright and West Long Branch.

In every presidential election since 2000, NJ's Sixth District has voted for a Democrat for president. Every two years a Republican challenges Pallone and in 2022 it was Kiley, 67, the former mayor of Hazlet and a current Monmouth County Commissioner.

Kiley sought to take advantage of a predicted "Red Wave" of Republican candidates eager to knock off sitting Democrats this year, hoping to resonate with voters angry about the economy, war in Russia and the surge in crime.

Kiley was said to be Pallone's strongest Republican candidate in years, but she was also a long shot: Pallone has a $4 million war chest compared to Kiley raising $250,000 for her campaign, $100,000 of which was her own money.

"I know Pallone has supporters, but I don't think he has as many supporters as he had in the past," Kiley told Patch in December 2021 when she was first considering running for the Congress seat. "I am terrified of the radical direction that (Pallone), Nancy Pelosi, Phil Murphy and Joe Biden are taking our country."

In many ways, Kiley and Pallone could not disagree more, differing on abortion, the economy, immigration and crime. Read: Frank Pallone Vs. Sue Kiley: Where They Stand On The Biggest Issues

Kiley voted for Donald Trump in 2020 and she campaigned for him throughout Monmouth County that year. Pallone is an ally of President Joe Biden and he was a fierce critic of former President Trump.

See the results below:

(411 of 546 precincts reporting)

• Frank Pallone: 66,848 (winner, according to the AP)
• Susan Kiley: 43,514
• Tara Fisher: 866
• Inder Soni: 487
• Eric Antisell: 289