Election Results Official For Millburn Committee, School Board

MILLBURN, NJ — Essex County Clerk Chris Durkin confirmed Friday that election results on the county website — which changed a few times after Nov. 3 as more mail-in ballots were counted — were official as of Friday.

Two of the candidates for four seats on the Millburn Township Committee, the who Republicans, had conceded after the preliminary Nov. 3 election results were counted. They said they lagged far enough behind the two Democrats to be able to win.

Republican candidate Nic Volpicelli said on Nov. 5, "We want all the votes to be counted to know the final numbers, but the margin in the early voting seems too large to overcome."

He and Sujoy Menon congratulated the winners, Democrats Maggee Miggins and Sanjeev Vinayak.

In Millburn's form of government, candidates run each year for the five-member committee. After the members are elected by the public, the committee members choose a new mayor and deputy mayor from among themselves.

The numbers on the clerk's website a week ago Thursday, before the results were official, were:

• Democrat Maggee Miggins, 6,151
• Democrat Sanjeev Vinayak, 6,132
• Republican Nic Volpicelli, 3,721
• Republican Sujoy Menon, 3,674

As of this past Friday they were:

• Democrat Maggee Miggins, 6,720
• Democrat Sanjeev Vinayak, 6,676
• Republican Nic Volpicelli, 4,421
• Republican Sujoy Menon, 4,345

(Read their profiles here.)

And in the school board race...

Meanwhile, for the Millburn Board of Education race for three seats, recent Millburn High School graduate James Serruto led the pack of winners.

These were the official results as of Friday:

• Jamie Serruto (incumbent) (Maintain Excellence), 6,678
• Louie Shen (incumbent) (Maintain Excellence slate), 6,442
• Alez Zaltsman (incumbent) (Maintain Excellence), 6,440
• Christina DiCosmo (Success, Nothing Less), 3,715

Biden vs. Trump

A news article two weeks ago said that residents in the Short Hills zip code had raised the second highest amount of funds for the Biden campaign of any New Jersey zip code, at $872,305. (The top zip code for Trump donors in New Jersey was in Lakewood.)

How did the candidates do countywide?

In Essex County, 77.3 percent of the votes totaled by Friday were for former Vice President Joe Biden, or 266,820 votes. For President Donald Trump, 75,475 votes were cast, or 22 percent. Libertarian Jo Jorgensen amassed 1,296 votes, Howie Hawkins of the Green party drew 978, and other third party candidates and write-ins drew about 700 votes.

For more on the New Jersey totals and public questions, click here.

For prior coverage of the 2020 election in New Jersey, go here: New Jersey Elections 2020

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