New Jersey 's 40th Legislative District is one of 40 districts that make up the map for the New Jersey Legislature . It covers the Bergen County municipalities of Allendale , Franklin Lakes , Ho-Ho-Kus , Midland Park , Ridgewood , Waldwick and Wyckoff ; the Essex County township of Cedar Grove ; the Morris County municipalities of and Pequannock Township and Riverdale ; and the Passaic County municipalities of Little Falls , Pompton Lakes , Totowa , Wayne and Woodland Park .[ 1]
As of the 2010 United States Census , the district had a population of 216,232, of whom 165,952 (76.7%) were of voting age. The racial makeup of the district was 190,019 (87.9%) White , 4,407 (2.0%) African American , 486 (0.2%) Native American , 14,683 (6.8%) Asian , 24 (0.0%) Pacific Islander , 2,968 (1.4%) from some other race , and 3,645 (1.7%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 14,422 (6.7%) of the population.[ 2]
The district had 163,697 registered voters as of February 1, 2020[update] , of whom 65,258 (39.9%) were registered as unaffiliated , 52,355 (32.0%) were registered as Republicans , 44,761 (27.3%) were registered as Democrats , and 1,323 (0.8%) were registered to other parties.[ 3]
Political representation
The district is represented for the 2020–2021 Legislative Session (Senate , General Assembly ) in the State Senate by Kristin Corrado (R, Totowa) and in the General Assembly by Kevin J. Rooney (R, Wyckoff) and Christopher DePhillips (R, Wyckoff).[ 4] [ 5]
Senator Corrado has served the district since October 2017. Previously the Clerk of Passaic County , she was appointed to replace three-term incumbent Kevin J. O'Toole of Cedar Grove, after his appointment to the Board of Commissioners of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey .[ 6] [ 7] [ 8]
Assemblyman Rooney has served the district since December 2016, the longest serving of the three in the district. The former mayor of Wyckoff, New Jersey was appointed to replace multi-term incumbent Scott Rumana of Wayne after his appointment to the bench of the Superior Court of New Jersey .[ 9] [ 10] [ 11]
Assemblyman DePhillips, a former mayor of Wyckoff, is the newest of the three in office, serving in the district since January 2018. First elected in 2017, DePhillips replaced David C. Russo of Ridgewood, who was first elected in 1989 and served until he left office in 2018 after his fourteenth term.[ 12]
District history
Upon the creation of the 40-district legislative map in 1973, the 40th District consisted of western Bergen County running from Elmwood Park north along the county line to Ridgewood, then in addition to Ho-Ho-Kus and Midland Park, consisted of the larger municipalities in the northwest corner of the county.[ 13] Following the 1981 redistricting, the 40th lost Elmwood Park, Ho-Ho-Kus, and Allendale, but picked up Upper Saddle River and the Passaic County boroughs of North Haledon , Pompton Lakes , Bloomingdale , and Wanaque .[ 14] In the 1991 redistricting, Ramsey , Upper Saddle River, North Haledon, Pompton Lakes, and Bloomingdale were shifted to other districts, but Washington Township , Waldwick, Ringwood , and West Milford became a part of the district.[ 15] Under the 2001 redistricting , the Bergen County portion of the 40th District became smaller only running along the county border from Ridgewood to Mahwah (plus Midland Park), but in addition to Ringwood and Wanaque, passed through the center of the county picking up Wayne and Little Falls and for the first time included Essex County by encompassing Cedar Grove and Verona .[ 16] Mahwah and Oakland were eliminated from the Bergen County portion in the 2011 redistricting but Allendale, Ho-Ho-Kus, and Waldwick were added, more of central Passaic County was added including Totowa and Woodland Park, and Morris County's Pequannock were included within the district.[ 1]
Election history
Since 1973, the district has always leaned Republican, never electing a Democrat through the 2019 general election.[ 17] It is one of only nine state legislative districts statewide that has never elected more than one political party to Trenton, and with the election of a Democrat to the 16th in 2015, the only district to have elected only Republicans.[ 18]
^ W. Cary Edwards was reelected to his Assembly seat in 1981 but declined to take his seat in order to become Governor-elect Thomas Kean 's counsel[ 19]
^ Elected to the Assembly in March 1982 special election, sworn in on May 3, 1982
^ Died August 9, 1985
^ Elected to the Senate in November 1985 special election, sworn in on November 18, 1985
^ Resigned July 1, 2017 to become a Commissioner of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
^ Resigned October 20, 2016 to become a Superior Court judge
^ Appointed to the Senate on October 5, 2017
^ Appointed to the Assembly on December 12, 2016
Election results
Senate
Assembly
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^ Cowen, Richard (July 26, 2017). "Corrado tapped to replace O'Toole in state Senate" . NorthJersey.com . Retrieved October 5, 2017 . Republicans in the 40th District on Wednesday selected Kristin Corrado to finish the unexpired Senate term of Kevin O'Toole, who resigned on July 1.
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Districts are co-terminous for both
Senate and
General Assembly (each district elects
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two members of the General Assembly)
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