Election Name: | 1873 New Jersey Senate elections |
Seats Before1: | 13 |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Seats Before2: | 8 |
Seat Change1: | 1 |
1Data2: | 3 |
Seat Change2: | 1 |
2Data2: | 2 |
Senate President | |
Before Election: | John W. Taylor |
Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
After Election: | John W. Taylor |
1Data1: | 3 |
2Data1: | 4 |
Seats2: | 7 |
Seats1: | 14 |
Election Date: | November 1873 |
Country: | New Jersey |
Previous Election: | 1872 New Jersey State Senate election |
Previous Year: | 1872 |
Next Election: | 1874 New Jersey State Senate election |
Next Year: | 1874 |
Majority Seats: | 11 |
Seats For Election: | 6 of the 21 seats in the New Jersey State Senate |
Type: | legislative |
1Blank: | Seats up |
2Blank: | Races won |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Ongoing: | no |
After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 1873 New Jersey State Senate elections were held in November.
The elections took place during the final year of Governor Joel Parker's second non-consecutive term in office. Republicans gained the Hunterdon County seat.
County | Incumbent[1] | Party | Elected Senator | Party | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Atlantic | William Moore | Rep | No election | ||||
Bergen | Cornelius Lydecker | Dem | No election | ||||
Burlington | Henry J. Irick[2] | Rep | Barton F. Thorn | Rep | |||
Camden | W. J. Sewell | Rep | No election | ||||
Cape May | Thomas Beesley Sr. | Rep | Richard S. Leaming | Rep | |||
Cumberland | Caleb Henry Sheppard | Rep | No election | ||||
Essex | John W. Taylor | Rep | No election | ||||
Gloucester | Samuel Hopkins | Rep | No election | ||||
Hudson | John R. McPherson | Dem | No election | ||||
Hunterdon | David H. Banghart | Dem | Frederic A. Potts | Rep | |||
Mercer | Charles Hewitt | Rep | No election | ||||
Middlesex | Levi D. Jarrard | Rep | Levi D. Jarrard | Rep | |||
Monmouth | William H. Hendrickson | Dem | No election | ||||
Morris | Augustus W. Cutler | Dem | No election | ||||
Ocean | John G. W. Havens | Rep | No election | ||||
Passaic | Henry A. Williams | Dem | John Hopper | Dem | |||
Salem | Isaac Newkirk | Rep | No election | ||||
Somerset | Elisha B. Wood | Rep | No election | ||||
Sussex | Richard E. Edsall | Dem | Samuel T. Smith | Dem | |||
Union | J. Henry Stone | Rep | No election | ||||
Warren | Joseph B. Cornish | Dem | No election |