Government Tavistock, New Jersey

1 government

1.1 local government
1.2 federal, state , county representation
1.3 politics

government
local government

tavistock operates under walsh act commission form of new jersey municipal government. 3 non-partisan commissioners elected at-large concurrent four-year terms of office. each commissioner assigned specific department head in addition legislative functions. tavistock has been governed under walsh act three-member commission, since 1928.

as of 2016, tavistock s commissioners mayor john j. aglialoro, joan p. carter , joseph del duca, serving concurrent terms of office ending december 31, 2017.

federal, state , county representation

tavistock located in 1st congressional district , part of new jersey s 6th state legislative district.

new jersey s first congressional district represented donald norcross (d, camden). new jersey represented in united states senate democrats cory booker (newark, term ends 2021) , bob menendez (paramus, 2019).

for 2016–2017 session (senate, general assembly), 6th legislative district of new jersey legislature represented in state senate james beach (d, voorhees township) , in general assembly louis greenwald (d, voorhees township) , pamela rosen lampitt (d, cherry hill). governor of new jersey chris christie (r, mendham township). lieutenant governor of new jersey kim guadagno (r, monmouth beach).

camden county governed board of chosen freeholders, 7 members chosen at-large in partisan elections three-year terms office on staggered basis, either 2 or 3 seats coming election each year. of 2015, camden county s freeholders freeholder director louis cappelli, jr. (collingswood, term freeholder ends december 31, 2017; term director ends 2015), freeholder deputy director edward t. mcdonnell (pennsauken township, term freeholder ends 2016; term deputy director ends 2015), michelle gentek (gloucester township, 2015), ian k. leonard (camden, 2015), jeffrey l. nash (cherry hill, 2015), carmen rodriguez (merchantville, 2016) , jonathan l. young, sr. (berlin township, november 2015; serving unexpired term of scot mccray ending in 2017)

camden county s constitutional officers, elected directly voters, county clerk joseph ripa, sheriff charles h. billingham, , surrogate patricia egan jones. camden county prosecutor mary eva colalillo appointed governor of new jersey advice , consent of new jersey senate (the upper house of new jersey legislature).

politics

as of march 23, 2011, there total of 7 registered voters in tavistock, of none registered democrats, 6 (85.7%) registered republicans , 1 (14.3%) registered unaffiliated. there no voters registered other parties.

in 2012 presidential election, republican mitt romney received 66.7% of vote (2 cast), ahead of democrat barack obama 33.3% (1 vote), , other candidates receiving no votes, among 3 ballots cast borough s 6 registered voters turnout of 50.0%. in 2008 presidential election, republican john mccain received 71.4% of vote (5 cast), ahead of democrat barack obama, received around 28.6% (2 votes), 7 ballots cast among borough s 7 registered voters, turnout of 100.0%. in 2004 presidential election, republican george w. bush received 88.9% of vote (8 ballots cast), outpolling democrat john kerry, received 11.1% (1 vote), 9 ballots cast among borough s 11 registered voters, turnout percentage of 81.8.

in 2013 gubernatorial election, republican chris christie received 100.0% of vote (1 cast), ahead of democrat barbara buono , other candidates received no votes, among 4 ballots cast borough s 5 registered voters (3 ballots spoiled), turnout of 80.0%. in 2009 gubernatorial election, republican chris christie received 100.0% of vote (5 ballots cast), ahead of both democrat jon corzine , independent chris daggett received none, 5 ballots cast among borough s 7 registered voters, yielding 71.4% turnout.