Monmouth County Certifies Middletown Election Night Results

MIDDLETOWN, NJ — The Monmouth County Board of Elections has certified ballot counts this week, making the results from Election Night in Matawan official.

In the race for Middletown Township Council, two Republicans were secure in winning seats on the board.

• Republican Patricia A. Snell 26,213 31.33 percent
• Republican Ryan M. Clarke 25,762 30.79 percent
• Democrat Marguerite Stocker 16,074 19.21 percent
• Democrat Brian W. Penschow 15,612 18.66 percent

Snell and Clarke led by the election night with anywhere between 150,000 and 200,000 votes still to be counted. By the next morning, Monmouth County officials said that only about 56 percent of mail-in ballots had been tallied. Despite the unofficial results, Middletown Mayor Tony Perry, a Republican, predicted Snell and Clarke would win once all the voters were counted.

"I'm very confident that the lead Pat and Ryan now hold is going to get even bigger as the votes come in," Perry told Patch at the time.

In the race for Middletown Township Board of Education, the final results for three seats are as follow:

• Frank Capone 16,534 16.07 percent
• Jacqueline Tabacco 16,354 15.90 percent
• Harmony “Barry” Heffernan 14,628 14.22 percent
• Nicholas A. DiFranco 8,798 8.55 percent
• Kelly Brodin 8,452 8.21 percent
• Robin Stella 8,379 8.14 percent
• Pam Smith 8,368 8.13 percent
• Pamela Rogers 8,090 7.86 percent
• Patricia Reed 8,086 7.86 percent
• Raymond Jankowski 5,171 5.03 percent