Burlington Dems hold three county offices

Burlington County Democrats have kept their multi-year winning streak alive, holding onto three countywide offices by solid margins.

Burlington County Clerk Joanne Schwartz won re-election to a second term tonight, leading Republican Deborah Buzby-Cope 58%-42% as of 11:27 p.m.

Democrats also retained two county commissioner seats, with incumbents Balvir Singh and Tom Pullion beating Republicans Alfonso Gambone and Larry Vernamonti. Pullion and Singh have 29% and 28% of the vote, respectively, to Gambone’s 22% and Vernamonti’s 21%.

Schwartz, a former freeholder, ousted incumbent Tim Tyler in 2018. Buzby-Cope is the mayor of Bass River.

Singh – Burlington County’s first Asian American countywide elected official, and the state’s first Sikh-American to be elected to a countywide post – first won election in 2017. Pullion was also first elected in 2017, and previously served on the Edgewater Park School Board and as a mayor and township committeeman.

Gambone, a veteran, is a lawyer and small business owner. Vernamonti is an optometrist.

Republicans had a 5-0 majority in county government until Singh and Pullion won in 2017. Democrats than took out two GOP incumbents in 2018 and another in 2019; they also flipped the sheriff post in 2019 and surrogate in 2021.

See all 2023 election results HERE.