Rep. Donald Norcross (D-Camden) will win a fourth full term in the House, the New Jersey Globe projects.
He will defeat former Collingswood School Board member Claire Gustafson, who never really had a path to victory in the heavily Democratic 1st congressional district.
Norcross, a former president of the South Jersey AFL-CIO and the only electrician in Congress, is a close ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
He chairs the House Armed Services Committee’s Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee, a position that gives him oversight over Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, which abuts the district.
Republicans lost the first district in 1974 amid a Watergate-fueled landslide and have not won it since.
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