Gavan's running mate was Donald Lan, who later became New Jersey Secretary of State and briefly a candidate for the 1981 Democratic nomination for Governor.
Bassano ran for re-election to a second term in 1973 in the new 20th Legislative District, but lost his seat in the Watergate Democratic landslide.
Democrats Joseph L. Garrubbo and John J. McCarthy defeated Bassano and his running mate, former Union County Freeholder Charles S. Tracy.
[1] He returned to the Legislature in 1975, running for the Assembly with Frank X. McDermott, who had lost his State Senate seat two years earlier.
Bassano won a fourth term in 1991 with 72% of the vote against Livingston Planning Board member Elly Manov and with 64% in 1993 against Cathy Perselay Seidman.