Democrats dominated Mercer County’s 2025 ballot from the governor’s race to local offices, according to unofficial totals.
Turnout was 45.20%, with 121,217 ballots cast out of 268,191 registered voters, according to unofficial results from the Mercer County Clerk’s Office, with mail-in ballots still being counted.
“Mercer continues to punch above its weight,” said County Executive Dan Benson, a Democrat. “We delivered the third highest Democratic win percentage in the state. We re-elected and won in Mercer all six of our Assembly delegation, our county clerk and commissioners, and every local Democratic race we ran.”
The following are the results for Mercer County only.
In the governor’s race, Mikie Sherrill and running mate Dale Caldwell received 85,226 votes to Jack Ciattarelli and James Gannon’s 34,401 in Mercer County.
In the 14th Legislative District, (which includes Hamilton, East Windsor, Hightstown, Plainsboro and Robbinsville), incumbent Assembly Democrats Wayne DeAngelo (30,454) and Tennille McCoy (28,426) led Republicans Marty Flynn (18,774) and Joseph Stillwell (18,206).
In the 15th District, District, (which includes Ewing, Lawrence, Hopewell Township, Hopewell Borough, Pennington, Trenton and West Windsor), incumbent Democrats Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (46,164) and Anthony Verrelli (44,490) were running unopposed.
In the 16th District, which includes Princeton, Democrats Roy Freiman (7,845, 41.26%) and Mitchelle Drulis (7,771, 40.87%) led Republicans Scott Sipos (1,662, 8.74%) and Catherine Payne (1,718, 9.04%), with 18 write-ins (0.09%) and 19,014 votes cast.
Mercer County
In the race for county clerk, incumbent Democrat Paula Sollami Covello had 84,162 votes to Republican Shaolin Brown’s 31,367.
For two county commissioner seats, incumbent Democrats Nina Melker (80,498) and Cathleen Lewis (78,997) led Republicans Daniel Hanley Jr. (33,474) and Alexander DiFalco (33,341).
East Windsor
Democrats David Russell (5,857), Johnnie Whittington (5,794) and Joseph Miczak (5,674) defeated Republicans Barry Greenstein (2,440), David Meiswinkle (2,366) and Anna Lustenberg (2,4787) for three Township Council seats.
In the race for three-year terms on the East Windsor Regional Board of Education Jagruti Patel, Jessica DeFalco and Nicole LaRusso were running unopposed. Robert Laverty won election for a one-year unexpired seat.
Ewing
In Ewing Township Board of Education race, Michael Miller, Nicole N.W. Harris and Daniel Angebranndt were running unopposed.
Hamilton
In Hamilton Township, Democrats Anthony Carabelli (19,891), Rick Tighe (18,670) and Charles Whalen (18,892) led Republicans Richard Balgowan (13,151), Noah Barnacz (13,054) and Sean Lucas (13,097) for three council seats.
For the Hamilton Board of Education, Dina Thornton (19,227), Jason McSheene and Christopher F. Scales led a six-candidate field, with 274 write-ins reported.
Hightstown
Democrats Todd Frantz (1,207) and Stephanie Spann (1,231) defeated Republicans Mark Madonia (535) and Zachary Geltzeiler (465) for two Borough Council seats.
Hopewell Borough
In Hopewell Borough, Democrats Krista Weaver (752) and Paul Buda (857) were elected for two Common Council seats. They were running unopposed.
Hopewell Borough voters approved a municipal question, 612 to 433. The question asked voters to decide whether to sell the municipal water system to New Jersey American Water for $6.4 million.
Borough voters also elected Mark Peters to the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education, with 730 votes. He was running unopposed.
Hopewell Township
In Hopewell Township, Democrats Courtney Peters-Manning (5,432) and David Chait (5,209) led Republicans Edward Jackowski (3,133) and Steven Niederer (3,220) for two Township Committee seats.
For two Hopewell Township seats on the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education, Hope Cotter (4,662) and Amanda Stylianou (4,431) led William Keithler (3,104).
HVRSD Referendum Questions
Hopewell Valley Regional School District voters approved $58.4 million for renovations and alterations to Hopewell Valley Central High School, Timberlane Middle School, Bear Tavern Elementary School, Hopewell Elementary School, Stony Brook Elementary School and Toll Gate Grammar School. The vote was 5,917 to 4,145.
They also approved $25.8 million for additions at Toll Gate Grammar School and Bear Tavern Elementary School by a vote of 5,410 to 4,611.
Lawrence Township
In Lawrence Township, unopposed incumbents Christopher Bobbitt (9,272) and James Kownacki (9,158) led for two council seats. Both are Democrats.
For a two-year unexpired council term, Democrat Amanda Santos (8,768) led Republican Kenneth Kiernan (3,263).
For the Lawrence Township Board of Education, Patricia “Pepper” Evans (2,236), Makenzie Kelly (9,111) and Paul Caparotta (8,888) were running unopposed.
Pennington Borough
In Pennington, Democrats Katrina Angarone (1,137) and Amy Kassler-Taub (1,129) Were running unopposed.
Princeton
Running unopposed in Princeton were council incumbents Mia Sacks (7,775) and Michelle Pirone Lambros (7,707)
For the Princeton Public Schools Board of Education, Erica Snyder (6,943), Dafna Kendal (6,456) and Susan Kanter (6,392) were running unopposed.
Plainsboro Township
Mayor Edmund Yates (5036) and Deputy Mayor David Bander (4,972) — both unopposed Democrats — won re-election to three-year seats on the Plainsboro Township Committee.
In the race for a three-year Plainsboro seat on the West Windsor-Plainsboro Board of Education, incumbent Paul O’Brien (3,227) defeated Hanif Payak (1,626).
Robbinsville
In Robbinsville’s nonpartisan race for mayor, unopposed Mike Todd received 4,619 votes. In the unopposed council race, incumbents Deborah Blakely (4,358) and Hal English (4,177) won.
Elected to two seats on the Robbinsville Board of Education, Raghu Nandan (4,358), Peter Oehlberg (4,357) and Jeffrey Pierro (4,382). They were unopposed.
Trenton
In Trenton Public Schools Board of Education voting for three open seats, Austin Edwards (7,857), Jeannie Weakliem (7,509) and Danelly DeLeon (6,887) led, followed by Donna Wellons (3,557).
West Windsor
In West Windsor’s nonpartisan mayoral race, incumbent Hemant Marathe received won reelection with 5,032 votes, as opposed to Sujit Singh’s, who received 4,714 votes.
For two West Windsor council seats, Marathe’s running mates Linda Geevers (5,006) and Joseph Charles (4,801) defeated Ajay Tomar (4,500) and Andrew Winters (4,460).
For two open West Windsor seats on the WW-P Board of Education, Sharon DiSebastian (8,022) and Graelynn McKeown (7,652) were running unopposed.
