1977 New Jersey gubernatorial election
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The 1977 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1977. Incumbent Democratic governor Brendan Byrne defeated Republican State Senator Raymond Bateman with 55.71% of the vote. Primary elections were held on June 7. Byrne barely overcame a large field of challengers, unusual for an incumbent Governor, to win the Democratic nomination with just over thirty percent of the vote. In the Republican primary, Bateman defeated Thomas Kean by a roughly 66,500 vote majority with former Senator C. Robert Sarcone a distant third.
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Two of the stronger challengers to Governor Byrne were U.S. Representatives Jim Florio and Bob Roe. Roe finished second and Florio fourth. They would face off again in the 1981 primary, in which Florio defeated Roe and several other candidates.
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The source only verifies that this statement was accurate as of 2017, not 2022.
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The 1977 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1977. Incumbent Democratic governor Brendan Byrne defeated Republican State Senator Raymond Bateman with 55.71% of the vote. Primary elections were held on June 7. Byrne barely overcame a large field of challengers, unusual for an incumbent Governor, to win the Democratic nomination with just over thirty percent of the vote. In the Republican primary, Bateman defeated Thomas Kean by a roughly 66,500 vote majority with former Senator C. Robert Sarcone a distant third. Byrne, whose popularity had plummeted after his landslide 1973 victory and his introduction of the state's first income tax, faced an uphill battle even after surviving the primary. Bateman led in all early polls, usually by a large margin. However, Byrne waged an aggressive campaign, challenging Bateman to several debates and criticizing both his voting record and his comprehensive economic proposals. In doing so, he ate into Bateman's margin in the polls, softened the unpopularity of the income tax, and flipped his own image as a weak incumbent; by November, he was considered the favorite for re-election, and he won handily. As of 2022, this was the last time the counties of Hunterdon and Warren were carried by a Democratic gubernatorial candidate. This would also be the last time New Jersey would reelect a Democratic Governor until Phil Murphy won reelection in 2021. As of 2022, this was also the most recent New Jersey gubernatorial election in which both major party candidates are now deceased.
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1977 New Jersey gubernatorial election
