Wall Township Voters No Fans Of Democrats In Tuesday's Polling

Wall Township voters liked all the candidates for election on Tuesday, so long as they were Republican.

In preliminary tallies from Tuesday’s election, Wall voters returned to their post every incumbent for partisan office listed on the ballot.

In the race for New Jersey governor, every one of Wall’s voting districts leaned for Republican Governor Chris Christie, a voting pattern consistent throughout Republican-heavy Monmouth County, where Christie had just less than 71 percent of the vote over Democrat Barbara Buono’s 28 percent. In statewide tallies, Christie garnered 60 percent of the vote to Buono’s 38 percent.

A Monmouth County Board of Elections map showing preliminary vote tallies is a sea of Christie fans, dotted only sparsely with tiny islands of Buono support.

Buono won only a handful of districts in the county, including one district in Freehold Borough, one district in Aberdeen Township, two in heavily Democratic Red Bank, three in Long Branch, one in Neptune City and several in Neptune Township. The state Senator did carry the city of Asbury Park and the tiny westerly town of Roosevelt, with a population of fewer than 900.

In state legislative races, state incumbent GOP Senator Robert W. Singer, state Assemblymen Sean Kean and Dave Rible – both incumbent Republicans and Wall Township residents – were voted back to Trenton by all of Wall’s districts, trouncing their little-known Democratic rivals.

At the county level, incumbent GOP Freeholders Thomas Arnone and Serena DiMaso and Republican Sheriff Shaun Golden were supported by all Wall’s voting districts.

Locally, the all-Republican Township Committee had little chance of changing in Tuesday’s polling, since no Democrat challenged either the GOP incumbents Clinton Hoffman or Jeffrey Foster, who slid into victory unscathed for another three years.