Christopher DePhillips

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Led by Kristin Corrado running for re-election in the New Jersey Senate, DePhillips and his Republican running mate, newcomer Al Barlas, defeated Democrats Giovanna Irizarry and Jennifer Marrinan in the 2023 New Jersey General Assembly election. [18] [19]

Christopher DePhillips
Member of the New Jersey Assembly
from the 40th District
Assumed office
January 9, 2018
Servingwith Kevin J. Rooney (2016-2024)
Al Barlas (2024-present)
40th Legislative District General Election, 2023 [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Christopher P. DePhillips (incumbent) 28,601 27.9
Republican Al Barlas 27,638 27.0
Democratic Jennifer Marrinan23,20222.7
Democratic Giovanna Irizarry22,95222.4
Total votes102,393 100.0
Republican hold
Republican hold

2021

In the 2021 New Jersey General Assembly election, DePhillips (with 45,246), together with Rooney, defeated their Democratic opponents, a team of Waldwick councilwoman Nicole McNamara (who earned 31,066 votes) and former assistant Bergen County prosecutor Genny Allard (who earned 30,606), to win re-election to his third two-year term in the General Assembly. [21] [22] In Bergen County, DePhillips won with 28.09% of the 60,790 votes cast (versus Allard's 21.73% and McNamara's 21.71%), [23] in Passaic County with 30.48% of the 66,366 votes cast (versus 18.94% and 19.50%), [24] in Essex County with 29.14% of the 10,059 votes cast (versus 20.28% and 20.71%); [25] and in Morris County with 31.83% of the 15,730 votes cast (versus 17.69% and 18.07%). [26] Leading up to the election, the New Jersey State FMBA (a union representing career firefighters, EMTs, and dispatchers) backed DePhillips in a slate of mixed Republican and Democrat endorsements. [27] The New Jersey Fraternal Order of Police, also in a politically heterogenous round of endorsements, chose to support DePhillips as well. [28]

2021 General Election in 40th District [29]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican Kevin J. Rooney (incumbent) 46,004 30.1% Increase2.svg 1.7
Republican Christopher DePhillips (incumbent) 45,246 29.6% Increase2.svg 2.0
Democratic Genevieve Allard30,60620.0%Decrease2.svg 1.8
Democratic Nicole McNamara31,06620.3%Decrease2.svg 1.8
Total votes'152,922''100.0'

2019

In the November 2019 election, DePhillips (with 21,955 votes) was re-elected to his second two-year term as an assemblyman, defeating the Democratic slate of former Bergen County Freeholder Julie O'Brien (who earned 17,557 votes) and Little Falls councilwoman Maria Martini Cordonnier (who earned 17,332). [30] In Bergen County, DePhillips won with 27.84% of the 17,046 cast (versus O'Brien's 22.17% and Cordonnier's 21.63%); [31] In Passaic County with 26.97% of the 36,050 votes cast (versus 22.58% and 22.45%), [32] in Essex County with 26.71% of the 3,254 votes cast (versus 22.74% and 23.11%); [33] and in Morris County with 30.26% of the 7,666 votes cast (versus 19.25% and 19.05%). [34]

In late October 2019, DePhillips and his running mate, Kevin Rooney, skipped a debate hosted by the League of Women Voters, claiming that the question-selection process was "broken" and "unfair" because an earlier debate sponsored by the Wayne League of Women Voters had allowed, "...a local Democratic candidate to be part of a group that was screening questions and determining what questions would be asked". [35]

2019 General Election in 40th District [36]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican Kevin J. Rooney (incumbent) 22,562 28.4% Increase2.svg 1.7
Republican Christopher DePhillips (incumbent) 21,955 27.6% Increase2.svg 1.3
Democratic Julie O'Brien17,55722.1%Decrease2.svg 1.1
Democratic Maria Martini Cordonnier17,33221.8Decrease2.svg 0.8
Total votes'79,426''100.0'

2017

In the 2013 general election, the last time all three legislative seats in the 40th District were up for vote simultaneously, the winners were Kevin J. O'Toole in the Senate and Scott Rumana and David C. Russo in the Assembly. By the 2017 primaries all would be gone, with O'Toole resigning in 2017 to become a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (being replaced by Kristin Corrado), Rumana leaving in 2016 to become a judge in New Jersey Superior Court (and be replaced By Kevin J. Rooney) and Russo's announcement that he would not run for another term of office, leaving a vacuum that led to a series of primary challenges. In the June 2017 Republican primary for the two Assembly seats, Rooney and DePhillips withstood a challenge from Joseph Bubba Jr. and the comeback attempt of former State Senator Norman M. Robertson by margins of 2–1; Kristin Corrado won the Senate nomination against former Assemblyman Paul DiGaetano. [37] Since 1973, the 40th District has always leaned Republican, never electing a Democrat through the 2017 general election. [38] However, a poll conducted by Democrats shortly before the election showed the two slates tied at 39%, with 21% of voters undecided. [39] In the November 2017 general election, DePhillips (with 30,610 votes; 26.3% of all ballots cast) and his running mate, incumbent Kevin J. Rooney (with 31,170; 26.8%), defeated Democratic challengers Christine Ordway (27,092; 23.3%) and Paul Vagianos (26,737; 23.0%) to win both Assembly seats from the district for the Republicans. [40] [41]

2017 General Election in 40th District [42]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican Kevin J. Rooney (incumbent) 31,170 26.8 Decrease2.svg 0.8
Republican Christopher DePhillips 30,610 26.3 Decrease2.svg 1.7
Democratic Christine Ordway27,09223.3Increase2.svg 1.0
Democratic Paul Vagianos26,73723.0Increase2.svg 0.8
You Tell MeAnthony J. Pellechia7480.6N/A
Total votes'116,357''100.0'

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