The Teams of Santiago, Gopal & Horigan (11th), Brown, Spedding & Rome (12th) and Cullen, Lavan & Short(13th), Morlino, Klienhendler & O'Rourke (30th) as well as, Monmouth County Freeholder Amy Mallet, her running mate Bill Shea and Surrogate candidate Michael Steinhorn all lost their respective races.
The big upsets out of this bunch needless to say, are the losses of Amy Mallet and Vin Gopal who both gained the endorsements of the Asbury Park Press.
Mallet presence on the Board of Chosen Freeholders will be missed. She was responsible for spear heading the effort to create the County's Department of Veterans Affairs (at no cost to tax payers), the County's solar initiative and was a leading voice for the ouster of the Brookdale trustees who where responsible for giving such lavish perks and contract to former Brookdale President Peter Burnham. Mallet was also an advocate for term limits for appointees of various boards and commissions through out the County so that abuses like the one discovered at Brookdale would not be repeated elsewhere.
After picking up the endorsement of the Asbury Park Press expectations skyrocketed for Vin Gopal to wrestle 1 of the 2 available Assembly seats away from the incumbent Republicans. The Republicans thought that Gopal's election to the Assembly was such a strong possibility, they resorted to an all out personal attack on him by sending out inflammatory and totally misleading campaign material about him that both the Newark Star Ledger and the Asbury Park Press condemned as dirty and false.
Below are the official results of each race from the Monmouth County Clerks webpage:
11th District Senate
REP - Jennifer Beck 20,156 - 56.59%
DEM - Raymond Santiago 15,419 - 43.29%
11th District Assembly
| REP - Mary Pat Angelini | 18,420 | 26.39% |
| REP - Caroline Casagrande | 18,679 | 26.76% |
| DEM - Vin Gopal | 15,333 | 21.97% |
| DEM - Kathleen Horgan | 15,000 | 21.49% |
| - Daniel Jacobson | 2,340 | 3.35% |
12th District Senate
| REP - Samuel D. Thompson | 6,089 | 59.20% |
| DEM - Robert 'Bob' Brown | 4,182 | 40.66% |
12th District Assembly
| REP - Ronald S. Dancer | 6,155 | 30.27% |
| REP - Robert D. Clifton | 6,090 | 29.95% |
| DEM - William 'Bill' Spedding | 3,995 | 19.65% |
| DEM - Catherine Tinney Rome | 4,076 | 20.05% |
13th District Senate
| REP - Joe Kyrillos, Jr. | 24,041 | 59.89% |
| DEM - Christopher G. Cullen | 14,739 | 36.72% |
| - Karen Anne Zaletel | 515 | 1.28% |
| - Stephen J. Boracchia | 554 | 1.38% |
| - MacDara F. Lyden | 257 | 0.64% |
13th District Assembly
| REP - Amy H. Handlin | 23,993 | 30.49% |
| REP - Declan O'Scanlon | 22,685 | 28.82% |
| DEM - Kevin M. Lavan | 15,118 | 19.21% |
| DEM - Patrick Short | 15,286 | 19.42% |
| - Frank C. Cottone | 830 | 1.05% |
| - William H. Lawton | 751 | 0.95% |
30th District Senate
| REP - Robert W. Singer | 12,991 | 63.58% |
| DEM - Steve Morlino | 7,419 | 36.31% |
30th District Assembly
| REP - Sean T. Kean | 14,058 | 34.22% |
| REP - David P. Rible | 12,704 | 30.92% |
| DEM - Howard Kleinhendler | 6,451 | 15.70% |
| DEM - Shaun O'Rourke | 7,112 | 17.31% |
| - David Schneck | 729 | 1.77% |
Monmouth County Freeholder
| REP - Gary Rich | 54,979 | 26.60% |
| REP - Lillian G. Burry | 54,969 | 26.59% |
| DEM - Amy Mallet | 46,413 | 22.45% |
| DEM - William Shea | 43,457 | 21.02% |
| - Thomas Markowski | 5,418 | 2.62% |
| - Patrick Noble | 1,389 | 0.67% |
Monmouth County Surrogate
| REP - Rosemarie D. Peters | 62,108 | 60.23% |
| DEM - Michael Steinhorn | 40,894 | 39.65% |
| Write-In | 124 | 0.12% |
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