“As absentee vote-counting winds down, Democratic state Senate candidate Elijah Reichlin-Melnick and Assembly Republican hopeful Michael Lawler have won election in their respective races, elections officials said.
Lawler’s ousting of seven-term Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee means Democrats will lose a seat in the Assembly while still maintaining majority control of the lower house. Reichlin-Melnick succeeds a Democrat, David Carlucci, and his party will continue to hold the majority. [Read more…]