Pallone victory: Plainfield-by-the-numbers

Much has been said about the importance of Plainfield's vote in the re-election of 6th Congressional District representative Frank Pallone on November 2.

Before engaging in that conversation, Assemblyman Jerry Green's take on it, and the so-called 'open letter' to Union County Republican candidates, I wanted to post the district-by-district numbers for Plainfield.

At the end of the post are links to Ward maps I have posted online showing each voting district (hopefully, the city website will soon have a much better map from the Planning Division online).

Overall, since New Dem Rebecca Williams was running for the at-large Council seat in Wards 2 and 3, the New Dems took responsibility for getting out the vote in those two wards, with Assemblyman Jerry Green and crew taking responsibility for, as he so graciously put it, 'knock and drag' in Wards 1 and 4. Note that Ward 1 had a contested Council race; there was no city office on the ballot in Ward 4.

2010 GENERAL ELECTION PLAINFIELD VOTES FOR PALLONE
	Total Registered	Turnout	% Voting	Votes for Pallone	% of Registered Voting for Pallone
Ward 1
01	625	282	45%	271	43%
02	961	287	30%	273	28%
03	441	163	37%	152	34%
04	495	185	37%	160	32%
05	543	166	31%	158	29%
06	571	231	40%	225	39%
07	743	300	40%	279	38%
08	601	265	44%	259	43%
Ward 2
01	712	212	30%	199	28%
02	509	235	46%	201	39%
03	553	262	47%	229	41%
04	594	212	36%	195	33%
05	477	244	51%	211	44%
06	584	292	50%	216	37%
07	585	265	45%	251	43%
08	458	229	50%	191	42%
09	512	257	50%	189	37%
10	494	242	49%	188	38%
11	869	342	39%	302	35%
Ward 3
01	496	168	39%	149	30%
02	545	222	41%	205	38%
03	551	268	49%	245	44%
04	887	377	43%	362	41%
05	478	272	57%	264	55%
06	522	282	54%	263	50%
07	524	250	48%	242	46%
08	498	206	41%	193	39%
09	689	259	38%	243	35%
10	903	273	30%	255	28%
Ward 4
01	1,201	332	28%	326	27%
02	1,121	425	38%	399	36%
03	821	395	48%	379	46%
04	568	200	35%	194	34%
05	499	191	38%	182	36%

Assemblyman Green did provide joint signs for candidates Bill Reid and Rebecca Williams, as well as a mailing supporting the Democratic line from Pallone down through Union County offices to the two City Council candidates. I think it would be fair to say the $12,000 Jerry says he spent should be allocated among the EIGHT CANDIDATES supported, or $1,500 per candidate (which is the way that ELEC rules credit such expenses).

With this table complete, I will turn to the 'conversation' around this election in a further post.

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• Plainfield Ward/District Maps:
  
• Ward 1
• Ward 2
• Ward 3
• Ward 4
  

-- Dan Damon [follow]

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