New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2005

New Jersey Gubernatorial election, 2005

2001 ← November 8, 2005 → 2009

Candidate Jon Corzine Doug Forrester Party Democratic Republican Popular vote 1,224,551 985,271 Percentage 53.5% 43.0%

Results by municipality

Governor before election Richard Codey Democratic Elected Governor Jon Corzine Democratic

The New Jersey gubernatorial election of 2005 was a race for the Governor of New Jersey. It was held on November 8, 2005. Incumbent Democratic (Then-Acting-) Governor Richard Codey, who replaced Governor Jim McGreevey in 2004 after his resignation, did not run for election for a full term of office.

The primary election was held on June 7, 2005. U.S. Senator Jon Corzine won the Democratic nomination with no serious opposition. Former Mayor Doug Forrester received the Republican nomination with a plurality of 36%. Corzine defeated Forrester in the general election easily

Democratic primary

Candidates

• Jon Corzine, U.S. Senator
• James D. Kelly Jr.
• Francis X. Tenaglio, former Pennsylvania State Representative

Results

Democratic Primary results
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Democratic	Jon S. Corzine	207,670	88.08%
	Democratic	James D. Kelly, Jr.	19,512	8.28%
	Democratic	Francis X. Tenaglio	8,596	3.65%
Totals			235,778	100.00%

Republican primary

Candidates

• Todd Caliguire, Freeholder of Bergen County
• Paul DiGaetano, State Assemblyman
• Doug Forrester, Mayor of West Windsor
• Steve Lonegan, Mayor of Bogota
• John J. Murphy, Freeholder of Morris County
• Bob Schroeder, Councilman of Washington Township
• Bret Schundler, Mayor of Jersey City

Results

Republican Primary results
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Republican	Doug Forrester	108,941	36.01%
	Republican	Bret Schundler	94,417	31.21%
	Republican	John J. Murphy	33,800	11.17%
	Republican	Steve Lonegan	24,433	8.08%
	Republican	Robert Schroeder	16,763	5.54%
	Republican	Paul DiGaetano	16,684	5.52%
	Republican	Todd Caliguire	7,463	2.47%
Totals			302,501	100.00%

General election

Candidates

Major

• Jon Corzine (D), U.S. Senator
• Doug Forrester (R), Mayor of West Windsor

Minor

• Jeffrey Pawlowski, U.S. Libertarian Party former Sayreville city councilman.

• Matthew Thieke, The Green Party candidate is a computer software analyst and resident of Maple Shade. He is a Rutgers University alumnus [1]

• Edward Forchion, United States Marijuana Party candidate. Advocate of legalizing marijuana; 2004 Congressional candidate in New Jersey's 3rd congressional district

• Angela Lariscy, Socialist Workers Party candidate; 2004 Congressional candidate in New Jersey's 13th congressional district

• Constantino Rozzo, Socialist Party candidate; 2004 Congressional candidate in New Jersey's 2nd congressional district

• Hector Castillo, physician from Paterson, ran for mayor in Paterson in 2002 and lost [2]

• Wesley Bell, former mayor of Stafford

• Michael Latigona, registered nurse and EMT from Marlton

Debates

The New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission declared that the four candidates would be included in the official gubernatorial debates to be aired on NJN. They included Jeffrey Pawlowski and Hector Castillo.

Polling

Source	Date	Corzine (D)	Forrester (R)
Rasmussen	June 8	47%	40%
Rutgers	June 12	43%	33%
Quinnipiac	June 15	47%	37%
Rasmussen	July 15	50%	38%
Strategic Vision	July 19	48%	40%
Fairleigh Dickinson-PublicMind	July 21	47%	34%
Rasmussen	August 7	45%	37%
Quinnipiac	August 10	50%	40%
Strategic Vision	August 18	50%	40%
Star-Ledger/Eagleton-Rutgers	September 12	48%	28%
Strategic Vision	Sept 16	47%	36%
Rasmussen	September 19	47%	36%
Fairleigh-Dickinson	September 26	48%	38%
Monmouth University	Sept 28	46%	38%
Quinnipiac	September 28	48%	44%
Rasmussen	October 6	45%	38%
Star-Ledger/Eagleton-Rutgers	October 3–6	44%	37%
Marist	October 10	44%	43%
Survey USA	October 11	49%	41%
Strategic Vision	October 13	46%	40%
Quinnipiac	October 19	50%	43%
Rasmussen	October 20	49%	40%
Survey USA	October 25	50%	41%
Strategic Vision	November 2	48%	42%
Fairleigh-Dickinson	November 2	44%	40%
Quinnipiac	November 2	50%	38%
Marist College	November 4	51%	41%
Monmouth University	November 4	47%	38%
Rasmussen	November 6	44%	39%
Quinnipiac	November 7	52%	45%
Survey USA	November 7	50%	44%

Results

County Results

New Jersey Gubernatorial Election, 2005
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Jon Corzine	1,224,551	53.47%	-2.96%
	Republican	Doug Forrester	985,271	43.02%	+1.35%
	Independent	Hector Castillo	29,452	1.29%
	Libertarian	Jeffrey Pawlowski	15,417	0.67%	+0.46%
	Green	Matthew Thieke	12,315	0.54%	+0.26%
	Independent	Edward Forchion	9,137	0.40%
	Independent	Michael Latigona	5,169	0.23%
	Independent	Wesley Bell	4,178	0.18%
	Socialist Workers	Angela Lariscy	2,531	0.11%	+0.06%
	Socialist	Constantino Rozzo	2,078	0.09%	+0.02%
Majority			239,280	10.45%	-4.31%
Turnout			2,290,099
	Democratic hold		Swing

See also

• Politics of New Jersey

External links

• Official 2005 Election Results
• Current Unofficial Election Results

Candidates

• Jon Corzine's Official Campaign Site
• Doug Forrester's Official Campaign Site
• Michael Latigona's Official Campaign Site
• Jeff Pawlowski's Official Campaign Site
• Constantino Rozzo's Official Campaign Site
• Matthew Thieke's Official Campaign Site