New Jersey's 11th Legislative District is one of 40 in the
New Jersey Legislature
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, the district had a population of 227,063, of whom 182,117 (80.2%) were of voting age. The racial makeup of the district was 139,463 (61.4%)
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, 29,418 (13.0%)
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, 24,487 (10.8%) from some other race, and 22,355 (9.8%) from two or more races.
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or Latino of any race were 42,924 (18.9%) of the population.
The district had 160,507 registered voters as of December 1, 2021, of whom 63,269 (39.4%) were registered as unaffiliated, 55,316 (34.5%) were registered as Democrats, 39,736 (24.8%) were registered as Republicans, and 2,186 (1.4%) were registered to other parties.
New Jersey Senate
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Marilyn Piperno
Marilyn Piperno (born December 9, 1965) is an American Republican Party politician who was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly from the 11th Legislative District in 2021 to take office on January 11, 2022.
Piperno graduated from Pace Un ...
6th
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congressional districts.
1965–1973
In the interim period between the 1964
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decision '' Reynolds v. Sims'' which required the creation of state legislature districts to be made as equal in population as possible, and the 1973 creation of the 40-district map, the 11th District consisted of all of Essex County. Because of its large population, the 11th Senate District elected multiple people to the State Senate
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. It was further divided into six Assembly districts in 1967 and 1969, and five in 1971; in all cases, each district elected two people to serve in the General Assembly.
The members elected to the Senate from this district are as follows:
The members elected to the General Assembly from the 11th Senate District are as follows:
District composition since 1973
When the 40-district state legislature apportionment was created in 1973, the 11th District consisted of central Monmouth County suburban townships including Freehold (and the borough of the same name),
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Holmdel
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, and Hazlet with a spur from Tinton Falls (then called New Shrewsbury) to Sea Bright, and continuing up the
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and Atlantic Highlands. In the 1981 redistricting, the district hugged the Monmouth County municipalities along the coastline from Manasquan to Atlantic Highlands inclusive of other inland townships and boroughs including Wall Township, Neptune Township, Ocean Township, and Oceanport. The 1990s iteration of the district remained largely the same with the exception of coastline municipalities south of South Belmar shifting to the
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and the addition of
Eatontown
Eatontown is a borough in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2010 Census, the borough's population was 12,709,Fair Haven, Rumson, and
West Long Branch
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Described by
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as "perhaps the biggest upset of the night", Republican Jennifer Beck lost her bid for re-election to the Senate in 2017 to Democratic challenger Vin Gopal, in what was the third-most expensive of the 120 legislative races statewide, with total spending in excess of $4 million. The district had been represented only by Republicans since 1992. With the addition of heavily Democratic communities like
Asbury Park
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As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 15,188
in the 2011 apportionment, Democrats gained a 32%-23% margin over Republicans in numbers of registered voters. Democrats
Joann Downey
Joann Kagan Downey (born October 31, 1966) is an American Democratic Party politician who represented the 11th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2016 to 2022.
Early life
Downey was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. She ...
and
Eric Houghtaling
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won the two Assembly seats in 2015 and Gopal's 2017 win over Beck, combined with holds by Assembly incumbents Downey and Houghtaling, put all three District 11 seats in the hands of Democrats.Napoliello, Alex "Vin Gopal upsets incumbent Jennifer Beck in hotly contested Dist. 11 race" NJ Advance media for
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, November 7, 2017. Accessed November 9, 2017. "According to unofficial results from the Monmouth County Clerk's Office, Gopal defeated Beck 28,750 votes to 25,108 votes.... This Shore district was once completely controlled by Republican lawmakers, but it saw a shift two years ago when Democrats picked up both its Assembly seats. And in redistricting, District 11 picked up Democratic towns such as Asbury Park. Democrats outnumber Republicans 32 percent to 23 percent in the district."
As of 2022, this is the only legislative district in which both parties hold at least one of the Assembly or Senate seats.