Christopher Durkin Archives - New Jersey Globe

Progressive slate thwarted in bid for Essex Democratic State Committee seats

March 21, 2026 2:15 pmMarch 21, 2026 2:20 pm

In what looks like a substantial victory for Essex County Democratic Chairman and New Jersey Democratic State Chairman LeRoy Jones, Jr., a slate of candidates backed by party leaders captured ten Democratic State Committee seats in Essex County in a...

Durkin wins re-election for Essex clerkship

November 5, 2025 12:37 amNovember 5, 2025 12:37 am

Essex County Clerk Christopher Durkin won a landslide re-election to a fifth five-year term, defeating Republican Maritza Matthews, 78%-22%, a margin of roughly 117,000 votes. At the end of his next term, Durkin will tie Nicholas V. Caputo as the...

The race is on – sort of – for Mikie Sherrill’s House seat

June 16, 2025 1:59 pmSeptember 4, 2025 5:10 pm

For the next five months, ambitious politicians in New Jersey’s 11th congressional district will be in a strange sort of limbo. Their local congresswoman, Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair), is now the Democratic nominee for governor, meaning that there could be...

Ciattarelli gets Essex GOP backing

March 18, 2025 8:44 pmMarch 18, 2025 8:53 pm

Essex County Republicans have endorsed former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli (R-Somerville) for governor after a vote of the party’s executive committee tonight gave him a 15-2 victory over State Sen. Jon Bramnick (R-Westfield). “We would like to thank all of the...

Essex County will settle line lawsuit

October 11, 2024 10:15 am

Essex County is expected to settle a lawsuit on county organization lines as early as today, becoming the latest — and largest — New Jersey county — to agree to office block ballots in primary elections. Essex is now the...

Pro-Palestine ‘uncommitted’ slate snags one DNC delegate spot

June 6, 2024 4:47 pmJune 7, 2024 1:39 pm

As expected, President Joe Biden won New Jersey’s Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday in a landslide – but a slate of “uncommitted” delegates running on a pro-Palestine message appears to have won one ticket to the Democratic National Committee (DNC)...

Morris GOP seeks to intervene in lines lawsuit; Durkin backs office block ballots

March 31, 2024 10:20 pmApril 1, 2024 12:39 am

Morris County Republican Chair Laura Marie Ali is seeking to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) challenging the constitutionality of organization lines in New Jersey. Her emergent application came one day after U.S. District Court Judge...