Levinson easily wins 6th term as Atlantic County Executive

Atlantic County Executive Dennis Levinson coasted to a sixth term, easily defeating Democrat Susan Korngut, a Northfield Councilwoman.

Levinson won 62%, defeating Korngut by 10,552 votes.

Republicans had no trouble holding their 6-3 majority on the freeholder board.

Freeholder Director Amy Gatto was re-elected to her at-large seat with 59% against Democrat Nick Polito.

Another Republican incumbent, Rich Dase, held his District 4 seat with 57% against Democrat Steve Light.

In District 1, Democrat Ernest Coursey defeated Republican Sam Majumder with 78%.

Atlantic City’s lone Republican councilman, Jesse O. Kurtz, won 76% in his bid for re-election to his Ward 6 seat.

Coursey won freeholder races in 2013 and 2016 after serving eleven years as a councilman in Atlantic City.  He ran unopposed three years ago.

A fixture in Atlantic County politics since he won a Northfield city council seat in 1981, Levinson spent fourteen years as a freeholder before winning before winning a race for county executive in 1999.

Levinson won his fifth term four years ago with 63% of the vote against James Schroeder.   Schroeder had dropped out of the race for health reasons after the September deadline to replace him on the ballot.

Korngut, a family law attorney, was elected councilwoman in the Republican-controlled city in 2017, defeating former Press of Atlantic City managing editor Peter Brophy with 59% of the vote.  She won the open seat of Republican Nicholas Piergiovanni.