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Amongst the Red Wave in the New York Metro Area, the GOP had an inpressive showing in the Elections in Passaic County, even if the Democrats ended up holding back any county wide gains.
Following the impressive 2021 Results where the GOP gained a County Commisioner's seat in Passaic in an upset, the Passaic County GOP set their sights on the Sheriff's election up in 2022, thinking that former Paterson Sheriff and the fourt place candidate in the 2021 County Commissioner's election, Troy Oswald, could give them the Seat.
Oswald ended up being disqualified from the ballot due to not meeting the residency requirements for sheriff (Living in the County for 3 years prior) and instead was transfered to the County Commisioner's race, instead the GOP got a sub par candidate in Mason J. Maher III, whom ended up losing by 8.6% to the four term incumbent Sheriff
Due to the fact that the congressional candidates ended up winning the county by 9%, the Coattails provided ended up allowing incumbent Commissioner's Terry Duffy and Pat Lepore to survive agains formidable Republican Challengers Alez Cruz, and Troy Oswald.
Board Of Comisioners: by Candidate
Board Of Comisioners: by Party
The four point loss was the best showing for the Passaic County GOP this cycle, but it was worse for them than their 2021 showing where they nabbed a seat on the Commission, and makes the GOP gaining a majority on the commision in 2023 imposible (best they can do narrow it to 4-3 Dem)
The Congressional vote ended up being the best countywide showing of the night, with Longtime Representative, and frm. Paterson mayor Bill Pascrell in addition to 2 Term Representative Mikie Sherrill, and 3 Term Representative Josh Gottheimer leading the ticket.
Generic Congressional Vote
Registered Voter Turnout (GCB)
The Narrowness of the results in 2022 was due to a few main things, a swing against Democrats amongst the suburbs in Passaic county (likely Independents as well due to the NY metro Red wave), and the second one was horrendous democratic/Hispanic turnout throughout the county.
The turnout issues can most clearly be seen in the heavily hispanic Paterson and Passaic city which had Registered bvoter turnout in the congressional elections at 19.3% and 20.8% respectively.
Furthermore, among Dem won municipalities, only Little falls and Woodland park had RV turnout over 40%
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