Democrat Carmel Morina has reclaimed the Gloucester County Sheriff’s post he lost three years ago, defeating Republican incumbent Jonathan Sammons by 568 votes, but two GOP county commissioners have won re-election after vote-by-mail and provisional ballots were counted on Tuesday.
Incumbents Nicholas DeSilvio (80,561) and Christopher Konawel (78,363) beat Democrats Tom Bianco (77,923) and Don Heverly (77,409). Just 440 votes separated Konawel and Bianco, the mayor of Clayton. Heverly, a Monroe councilman and ironworkers official, trails DeSilvio by 3,152 votes.
Both races could go to recounts.
Democrats flipped the sheriff’s seat back and kept its 5-2 majority on the Board of Commissioners. Control will be up for grabs next year.
Roughly 3,000 provisional ballots were counted today, with about 400 tossed by election officials. There are roughly a dozen late-arriving mail-in ballots still at the post office; they should be delivered today.