New Jersey 1805 Assembly, Middlesex County

Office:: Assembly (State)
Title:: Assemblyman
Jurisdiction:: State

Label:: New Jersey 1805 Assembly, Middlesex County
Date:: 1805
State:: New Jersey
Type:: General
Iteration:: First Ballot
Office/Role:: Assembly/Assemblyman
Candidates:: Erkuries Beatty, Andrew Elstone, James Voorhees, James Morgan, John Smith, William F. Manning

Candidates:	Erkuries Beatty [1]	Andrew Elstone [2]	James Voorhees [3]	James Morgan	John Smith	William F. Manning
Affiliation:	Federalist	Federalist	Federalist	Republican	Republican	Republican
Final Result: [4][5][6]	918	917	915	834	819	814
Middlesex County	918	917	915	834	819	814
East Windsor	36	31	35	68	71	67
North Brunswick	255	255	253	124	114	118
Perth Amboy	24	24	24	36	36	36
Piscataway	183	182	183	105	105	107
South Amboy	125	122	129	146	148	144
South Brunswick	171	167	169	41	38	38
West Windsor	76	75	80	42	42	41
Woodbridge	48	61	42	272	265	263

Notes:

[1]Elected.

[2]Elected.

[3]Elected.

[4]The Guardian; or, New-Brunswick Advertiser (New Brunswick, NJ) reports 925 votes for James Voorhees in Middlesex County but the township totals add up to 915.

[5]The Centinel of Freedom (Newark, NJ) and The True American (Trenton, NJ) report 925 votes for James Voorhees and 817 votes for William F. Manning in Middlesex County.

[6]"The Republican Candidates for Council and Assembly have been elected in the counties of Essex, Morris, Sussex, Hunterdon, Monmouth, Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland. The Federal tickets have succeeded in Bergen, Somerset, Middlesex, Burlington, and probably Cape-May. The strength of parties in the Legislature of this state this year is therefore Republicans to Federalists--tho' not so good as we expected, not so bad as it might have been." The True American (Trenton, NJ). October 21, 1805.

References:

Guardian; or, New-Brunswick Advertiser (New Brunswick, NJ). October 17, 1805.

The True American (Trenton, NJ). October 21, 1805.

The Centinel of Freedom (Newark, NJ). October 22, 1805.

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