Warren County Commissioner Jason Sarnoski (R-Independence) has easily won renomination for another term, the New Jersey Globe projects, defeating challenger Sylvia Zika.
As of 12:49 a.m., Sarnoski leads 79%-21%.
Sarnoski, currently the commissioner director, has served on the board since 2011, making him the longest-serving member of county government. In 2023, he ran for a Sussex County-based seat in the State Assembly, but lost in the Republican primary.
Zika, meanwhile, ran for office once before in 2014, losing an independent campaign for Blairstown Township Committee. Her county commissioner campaign this year revolved around reducing taxes and opposing warehouse development, but it never caught on among primary voters.
Democrats are running Ethel Conry, the former mayor of Washington Borough (and, until her loss last year, one of the very few Democrats representing any part of the deeply Republican county), for the seat.
Warren County, in the conservative northwestern corner of the state, was also in the news recently for an unusual reason. Last month, the Trump administration released a list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” that it accused of unlawfully protecting illegal immigrants, and Warren County was on it; the inclusion came as a surprise to local GOP lawmakers, who had repeatedly passed resolutions against sanctuary cities, and it was taken down a few days later.
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