List of candidates running in state legislative elections, 2013

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This page contains all candidates who ran in the 2013 state legislative elections.

There were 220 seats up for election in the fall of 2013. Two states held elections on November 5, 2013—New Jersey and Virginia. There were total candidates who ran in the 2013 state legislative elections.

New Jersey

State Senate

Democratic

1. Gary Catrambone
2. Jane Bidwell
3. Vernon Pullins, Jr.
4. Mark Alexander
5. William Field
6. Anthony Mazella
7. Michael Brantley
8. Raymond Dothard
9. Donna Obe
10. Michael Komondy
11. Nancy Ward
12. Ben Auletta
13. Richard Tomko
14. Francisco Torres
15. Christian Mastondrea
16. John Bendel
17. Joseph Marques
18. Avery Ann Hart
19. Javier Vasquez
20. Gerard R. Bowers
21. William Meredith Ashley (New Jersey)

Republican

1. Robert Campbell
2. Leigh-Ann Bellew
3. Susan Adelizzi Schmidt
4. Frank Balles
5. Marybeth Bennett
6. Paul Duggan
7. Brian Fitzhenry
8. Joseph Cupoli
9. James Sanford
10. Paul Castelli
11. Harold Herskowitz
12. Raafat Barsoom
13. Sudhir Deshmukh
14. Robert Sherr
15. Robert Luban
16. David Stahl (New Jersey)
17. Brian Levine
18. Don Cox (New Jersey)
19. Niki Trunk
20. Giancarlo D'orazio
21. Peter Inverso
22. Lee Holtzman
23. Hector Castillo
24. Fernando Alonso
25. Frank Contella
26. Maria Karczewski
27. Lynda Gallashaw
28. Thomas Greto
29. Keith Walker (New Jersey)

Independent/Third party

1. Thomas Greto

General Assembly

Democratic

1. Leo Arcuri
2. Anthony Galietti
3. Donna Abene
4. Anthony Iannarelli
5. Denise Baskerville
6. Beverly Williams
7. Anthony Moye
8. Rayfield Morton
9. Ravinder Bhalla
10. John Hilt IV
11. Anthony Mills (New Jersey)
12. Ines Serna
13. Mayra Dominguez
14. Alex Krasnomowitz
15. William Weightman
16. Ralph Drake
17. John Valentine (New Jersey)
18. Nick Russo
19. Ida Ochoteco
20. Nicholas Nellegar
21. Kevin McMillan
22. Edward Zipprich
23. Lawrence Furman
24. Elliot Isibor
25. Joseph Raich
26. Marie Corfield
27. Sam Krause
28. Aharon Cohn
29. Lorelei Rouvrais
30. Allison Friedman
31. Susan Kane
32. Amber Gesslein
33. Peter Ferwerda
34. Christopher McManus
35. Nelson Albano
36. Cleopatra Tucker
37. Alberto Coutinho
38. Marlene Caride
39. Connie Wagner
40. Zachary Schrieber
41. Ava Markey
42. Matthew Morehead
43. Susan Williams (New Jersey)
44. Peter Basso
45. Jimmy Esposito
46. Robert McGowan
47. Norman Albert
48. Angelica Jimenez (New Jersey)
49. Gary Schaer
50. Wayne DeAngelo
51. Craig Coughlin
52. Annette Quijano
53. Eliana Pintor Marin
54. Louis Greenwald
55. Shavonda Sumter
56. Herbert Conaway Jr.

Republican

1. Kristine Gabor
2. Philip Dieser
3. David Ragonese
4. George Wagoner
5. Ellyn McMullin
6. Bob Vanderslice
7. Larry Wallace (New Jersey)
8. Theodore Liddell
9. Constance Hare Murray
10. Joseph Siano
11. Anthony Ogozalek
12. Jeff Banasz
13. Scott Fay
14. Gary Jacques
15. Edna Walsh
16. Ronald Haas
17. Steve Cook (New Jersey)
18. Anthony Giordano
19. Robert Bengivenga
20. Lisa Goldhamer
21. Arif Khan
22. Stephanie Ziemba
23. Charles Donnelly
24. Christopher Hackett
25. Jeffrey First
26. Angelo Tedesco
27. Tayfun Selen
28. Laura Ali
29. James Boydston
30. Peter Manning
31. Aracelis Sanabria Tejada
32. Elaine Guarino
33. Juanita Lopez
34. Gerard Pizzillo
35. Michael Alonso
36. Maria Malavasi-Quartello
37. Lee Marie Gomez
38. Jude Anthony Tiscornia
39. Armando Hernandez (New Jersey)
40. Michael Urciouli
41. Rhina Invarez
42. Maria del Pilar Rivas
43. Rosina Romano
44. Foster Lowe
45. Gino Tessaro
46. Stephanie Shellenberger
47. Joan Fragala
48. John Amodeo
49. Caroline Casagrande
50. Amy Handlin
51. Rhina Tavarez
52. Chris Leone-Zwillinger
53. Stephen Boracchia
54. John Campbell (New Jersey)
55. Joseph Scarpa
56. Dierdre Paul
57. Kim Taylor (New Jersey)
58. George R. Fisher
59. Gary Stein
60. Sanjay Patel (New Jersey)
61. Clenard Childress Jr.
62. Brian Rumpf
63. Robert Clifton (New Jersey)
64. Jay Webber
65. John DiMaio
66. Erik Peterson (New Jersey)
67. Gregory McGuckin
68. Robert Auth
69. Sean Kean
70. Nancy Muñoz

Independent/Third party

1. Tony Zanowic
2. Rebecca Feldman
3. User:Jane Scharl/Delaware sprouting

Virginia

House

Democratic

1. Richard James
2. Herbert C. Kemp
3. Algie Howell
4. Roz Dance
5. Evandra D. Thompson
6. Jonathan McGrady
7. Monte Johnson
8. Gary P. Miller
9. Reed Heddleston
10. Freeda Cathcart
11. Bill Fleming (Virginia)
12. Ed Deitsch
13. Robert Farinholt, Jr.
14. Kathleen O'Halloran
15. Bill Dale
16. Lynwood Lewis
17. Jeion Ward
18. Johnny Joannou
19. Lionell Spruill
20. Joseph Morrissey
21. Bill Grogan
22. Hung Nguyen
23. William E. Quarles
24. Jasper Hendricks III
25. Toni Radler
26. Richard Cabellos
27. Bob Brink
28. Mark Sickles
29. Jerrold Foltz
30. Vivian Watts
31. David Bulova
32. Ken Plum
33. Mary Lou Costello Daniel
34. Elizabeth A. Miller
35. Traci Dippert
36. Katherine Webb Cyphert
37. Susan Bates Hippen
38. Lewis Medlin, Jr.
39. Colin Harris
40. Elizabeth Jones, Virginia Representative
41. Atif Qarni
42. James Harder
43. Onzlee Ware
44. Michael Abraham
45. James O'Quinn
46. Brent McKenzie
47. Linda Bryant (Virginia)
48. Daun Sessoms Hester
49. Patrick Hope
50. Marcus Simon
51. Luke Torian
52. Alfonso Lopez
53. Charniele Herring
54. Betsy Carr
55. Delores McQuinn

Republican

1. Gary C. Byler
2. T. Jeremy Waters
3. Dustin R. Curtis
4. Joe T. May
5. Beverly Sherwood
6. Craig Ennis
7. Kenneth L. Bowman
8. Mark W. Prince
9. C. Todd Gilbert (Virginia)
10. Jack Weaver
11. Terry Austin
12. Chris Peace
13. Brenda Pogge
14. Michael Watson (Virginia)
15. Alvin Peschke
16. John O'Bannon
17. Matthew Fitch
18. W. Brad Tidwell
19. Jackson H. Miller
20. Dave Albo
21. Fredy Burgos
22. Tim Hugo
23. Joseph Bury
24. Patrice Winter
25. Leiann Leppin Luse
26. Scott Lingamfelter
27. Ed Scott
28. Kathy Byron
29. Tony Wilt
30. Will Morefield
31. Israel O'Quinn
32. Terry Kilgore
33. Danny Marshall III
34. Tommy Wright (Virginia)
35. Buddy Fowler Jr.
36. Michael Webert
37. Bobby Orrock
38. Keith Hodges
39. Lee Ware
40. Jay Leftwich
41. Barry Knight

See also

• State legislative elections, 2013
• New Jersey State Senate elections, 2013
• New Jersey General Assembly elections, 2013
• Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2013

External links

• New Jersey Department of State - Division of Elections
• Virginia State Board of Elections

Footnotes

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