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Mark Caliguire
Mark Caliguire (Republican Party) ran for election to the New Jersey General Assembly to represent District 16. Caliguire lost in the general election on November 5, 2019.
Caliguire completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.
Caliguire was a 2017 Republican candidate for District 16 of the New Jersey General Assembly.
Biography
Caliguire earned his B.A. from Cornell University in 1983 and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law School in 1987.[1] His professional experience includes working as a lawyer. As of August 2017, Caliguire had served on the Somerset County Board of Freeholders since 2011.[2]
Elections
2019
See also: New Jersey General Assembly elections, 2019
General election
General election for New Jersey General Assembly District 16 (2 seats)
Incumbent Andrew Zwicker and incumbent Roy Freiman defeated Mark Caliguire and Christine Madrid in the general election for New Jersey General Assembly District 16 on November 5, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Andrew Zwicker (D) | 28.1 | 27,732 |
| ✔ |  | Roy Freiman (D) | 26.9 | 26,466 |
 | Mark Caliguire (R)  | 22.6 | 22,276 | |
 | Christine Madrid (R) | 22.4 | 22,068 | |
| Total votes: 98,542 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for New Jersey General Assembly District 16 (2 seats)
Incumbent Andrew Zwicker and incumbent Roy Freiman advanced from the Democratic primary for New Jersey General Assembly District 16 on June 4, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Andrew Zwicker | 51.4 | 8,671 |
| ✔ | | Roy Freiman | 48.6 | 8,207 |
| Total votes: 16,878 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for New Jersey General Assembly District 16 (2 seats)
Mark Caliguire and Christine Madrid defeated Roger Forest Locandro in the Republican primary for New Jersey General Assembly District 16 on June 4, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mark Caliguire | 39.3 | 4,782 |
| ✔ | | Christine Madrid | 35.0 | 4,266 |
| Roger Forest Locandro | 25.7 | 3,127 | ||
| Total votes: 12,175 | |||
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2017
General election
Elections for the New Jersey General Assembly took place in 2017. All 80 seats were up for election. State assembly members are elected to two-year terms. The general election took place on November 7, 2017. A primary election took place on June 6, 2017. The filing deadline for the primary election was April 3, 2017.[3] Legislative districts in the New Jersey General Assembly are multi-member districts, with two representatives in each district. In Democratic and Republican primary elections, the top two candidates move forward to the general election, and the top two candidates in the general election are declared the winners.[4] Incumbent Andrew Zwicker (D) and Roy Freiman (D) defeated Donna Simon (R) and Mark Caliguire (R) in the New Jersey General Assembly District 16 general election.[5][6]
| New Jersey General Assembly, District 16 General Election, 2017 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Andrew Zwicker Incumbent |
27.24% | 34,233 | |
| Democratic | Roy Freiman |
26.03% | 32,714 | |
| Republican | Donna Simon | 23.61% | 29,674 | |
| Republican | Mark Caliguire | 23.11% | 29,041 | |
| Total Votes | 125,662 | |||
| Source: New Jersey Department of State | ||||
Races we watched
Ballotpedia identified eight races to watch in the New Jersey General Assembly 2017 elections: three seats with two Democratic members, three seats with two Republican members, and two seats split between the parties. Based on analysis of these districts' electoral histories, these races had the potential to be more competitive than other races and could possibly have led to shifts in a chamber's partisan balance.
This district was a Race to Watch because the district was split between the parties following the 2015 elections, both incumbents had margins of victory that were less than five percent, and an incumbent from the opposite party of the 2016 presidential winner did not file for re-election In the 2015 elections, all four candidates for District 16 were within five points of each other. Incumbents Jack Ciattarelli (R) and Andrew Zwicker (D) received 25.4 percent of the vote and 25.5 percent, respectively. Republican incumbent Donna Simon (R) and Maureen Vella (D) received 24.9 percent and 24.6 percent, respectively. Ciattarelli was first appointed to the chamber in 2011 and Zwicker was first elected in 2015 when he defeated Simon. District 16 was one of 28 New Jersey state legislative districts that Democrat Hillary Clinton won in the 2016 presidential election. Clinton carried District 16 by 14.3 points. In 2012, Democrat Barack Obama won District 16 by 7.7 points. As of 2017, District 16 overlapped with the following counties: Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset.
Democratic primary election
Incumbent Andrew Zwicker and Roy Freiman were unopposed in the New Jersey General Assembly District 16 Democratic primary election.[7][8]
| New Jersey General Assembly, District 16 Democratic Primary, 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Andrew Zwicker Incumbent |
51.32% | 10,918 |
| Roy Freiman |
48.68% | 10,358 |
| Total Votes | 21,276 | |
| Source: New Jersey Department of State | ||
Republican primary election
Donna Simon and Mark Caliguire were unopposed in the New Jersey General Assembly District 16 Republican primary election.[9][8]
| New Jersey General Assembly, District 16 Republican Primary, 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Donna Simon |
50.43% | 8,048 |
| Mark Caliguire |
49.57% | 7,912 |
| Total Votes | 15,960 | |
| Source: New Jersey Department of State | ||
Campaign themes
2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Mark Caliguire completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Caliguire's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- New Jersey needs more voices in Trenton opposing bad polcirs. The Democrat Party has had overwhelming majorities in the NJ Senate and Assembly for 18 years and it is a record of failure.
- Governor Murphy has cut education spedning for many of the school districts in the legisltaitve district I am looking ot represnt and my oponents have not said or done anything about it.
- New jersey has the lowest economic growth in the US during a booming economy. And still the Murphy admintration raises taxes and drives out businesses form our state. We need to be more business and tax friendly.
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See also
2019 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 21, 2019
- ↑ Facebook, "Mark Caliguire," accessed August 21, 2017
- ↑ New Jersey Secretary of State, "2017 Primary Election Timeline," accessed March 21, 2017
- ↑ New Jersey Division of Elections, "Official List, Candidates for General Assembly for Primary Election, June 6, 2017," accessed April 13, 2017
- ↑ New Jersey Department of State, "Candidates for General Assembly for General Election 11/07/2017 Election," accessed September 14, 2017
- ↑ New Jersey Department of State, "2017 official general election results," accessed November 30, 2017
- ↑ New Jersey Division of Elections, "Official Candidate List," April 6, 2017
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 New Jersey Division of Elections, “2017 official primary election results for general assembly,” accessed July 13, 2017
- ↑ New Jersey Division of Elections, "Official Candidate List," April 6, 2017
