The Sheriff is an elected countywide position, the top law enforcement officer in the county, established by the New Jersey Constitution.
The Surrogate is an elected countywide position with a five-year term and acts essentially as the County Probate Court Judge.
Amato switched parties and ran for re-election as a Republican in 1986 after Essex Democrats, at the urging of County Executive Peter Shapiro, denied him the organization line in the primary; he later switched races and defeated Shapiro in the County Executive race.
Harris was a longtime Newark City Council President who joined the Republican ticket in 1986 to run with Amato.
The Essex County Register of Deeds and Mortgages is an elected countywide position with a five-year term.
[2] 2013-2014: William Narvaez (Democrat), became Acting Register following Thigpen's death and served until Rone took the oath of office in January 2015.
a former Assemblyman who had served as County Register from 1970 to 1975; Mintz had run on a single platform of eliminating the office.
1953-1968: Dennis F. Carey; 1968-1978: Harry Lerner; 1978-1979: May Maher; 1979-1980: Horace Gausepohl; 1980-1992: Raymond M. Durkin; 1992-1993: Thomas J.
D'Alessio; 1993-2002: Thomas P. Giblin; 2002-2004: Donald M. Payne; 2004-2013: Philip Thigpen; 2013-date: LeRoy J. Jones, Jr. 1971-1973: George M. Wallhauser, Jr.; 1973-1977: Frederic Remington; 1977-1982: John Renna; 1982-1983: James Piro; 1983-1986: Michael D. Francis; 1986-1996: John Renna; 1996-1997: Jeanne Parke; 1997-2011: Kevin J. O'Toole; 2011-date: Al Barlas.
Payne was serving as an Essex County Freeholder and Newark City Councilman when he won a 2012 Special Election following the death of his father.
Defeated for re-election in 1984 by Assembly Minority Leader Dean Gallo, a Republican from Morris County (Parsippany).
The U.S. Supreme Court, in Reynolds v. Sims (more commonly known as One Man, One Vote), required redistricting by state legislatures for congressional districts to keep represented populations equal, as well as requiring both houses of state legislatures to have districts drawn that contained roughly equal populations, and to perform redistricting when needed.
A Special Election was held in November 1971 to fill the unexpired term of Senator David Dowd (Republican), who had resigned to become General Counsel of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
The seat was won by Democrat Charles B. DeMarco, who served in the Senate from November 1971 to January 1972.
The all-Essex 27th District was based in northeastern Essex County and included Montclair, Bloomfield and Nutley.
The all-Essex 28th District included part of Newark (West Ward), and Irvington and South Orange.
The incumbent was DeRose (D-South Orange), who gave up his Senate seat to run for governor.
The 30th District included part of Newark (North Ward) and Belleville, and the Hudson County towns of Harrison and Kearny.
Dodd was re-elected against Republican Nancy Jane Schron, the former East Orange City Council President.
Greenberg was re-elected against Republican James A. Pindar, a Roman Catholic Priest and a professor of communications at Seton Hall University.
Imperiale was defeated in his bid for re-election to a second term in the Senate by Democrat Frank X. Rodgers, the longtime Mayor of Harrison, New Jersey.
Greenberg resigned from the Senate to return to his law practice and represent the new Golden Nugget Casino in Atlantic City.
Newark West Ward Councilman Ronald Rice won a special election to the state senate.
In 1997, Scott lost his Senate seat to an Essex County Democrat, Garry Furnari, the mayor of Nutley.
Newark Mayor Sharpe James won a special election convention to replace her in the New Jersey State Senate.
An Essex County Republican, Assemblyman Kevin O'Toole of Cedar Grove, won a Special Election Convention to fill the remainder of Bassano's term.
Codey was re-elected in a new district that lost East Orange but picked up suburban West Essex towns.
The incumbent Republican Senator, Norman Robertson, lost to Assemblywoman Nia Gill, a Democrat from Montclair.
Addonizio gave up his seat in Congress after seven terms to challenge Mayor Leo Carlin in 1962.
As city council president, he succeeded to the mayoralty after Booker resigned to take his seat in the U.S. Senate.