How did Parsippany Vote in the Primary?

PARSIPPANY — Boonton resident James Gannon won 37 of the 39 municipalities in Morris County in the Republican primary election for sheriff to beat opponent John G. Sierchio, who was endorsed by retiring Sheriff Edward V. Rochford.

The incumbent Morris County freeholders seeking re-election to three-year terms — Director Kathy DeFillippo, Douglas Cabana and Thomas Mastrangelo — also won by large margins, with Mastrangelo the top vote-getter of the trio. But how did Parsippany voters cast their vote?

The incumbent Freeholders outspent challengers by approximately 15:1, due to several hundreds of thousands of dollars from unions, specifically the Carpenters’ Union of New Jersey, that had endorsed the Mastrangelo, DeFillippo, and Cabana team, and for whom the incumbents had pledged to enact an apprenticeship resolution.

This resolution, that has been “deferred” from a vote twice by the Board in the last several months due to public pressure, would basically exclude any smaller and non-union shops from bidding on County public works projects, as it would require bidders to have an apprenticeship training program, which of course are only provided by union shops.

That’s the bad news.  The good news is that the total votes for freeholder among the “other than incumbents” candidates was higher than the incumbents.  John Krickus received 14% of the vote, compared to the incumbents’ 20%.  The other challengers, Lou Valori, Roman Hirniak, and  Peter King, received between 7 and 10% of the vote, so challengers took between 21 and 24% of the vote totals.  While they won by comfortable majorities in terms of total votes, the majority of voters voted for someone other than the incumbents.

Parsippany Focus has prepared a break down by district on how the voters of Parsippany cast their votes.

Voter turnout in Morris County was only 29.1% of the registered voters.

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