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New Jersey State Senate elections, 1977 : ウィキペディア英語版 | New Jersey State Senate elections, 1977
The 1977 New Jersey State Senate election coincided with Brendan Byrne's re-election to a second term as Governor of New Jersey. Byrne entered the 1977 cycle as an unlikely candidate for re-election; Republicans gained 17 Assembly seats in the 1975 mid-term elections, and Byrne was exceedingly unpopular after supporting a State Income Tax; nearly three-quarters of New Jersey voters disapproved of his job performance. Byrne won renomination in the Democratic Primary with just 30% of the vote against ten challengers, and the Republican nominee, State Sen. Raymond Bateman, began the campaign with a sizable lead; some polls had him ahead by as much as 17%. Byrne and Bateman debated nine times and Byrne used the governorship to his advantage, signing bills and appearing with cabinet members all over the state, benefiting from a visit by President Carter and turning what was his biggest weakness, the income tax, into a strength. Property taxes went down because of it, people got rebates and Bateman's plan - replacing it with an increased sales tax - was widely criticised.〔http://www.bluejersey.com/diary/11060/〕 While Republicans had high hopes of winning back the Senate, Democrats lost just two seats, with Republicans picking up three and the lone Independent in the Senate also losing. ==History== The state was to be divided into 40 legislative districts for the first time in 1973, with each district electing one State Senator and two members of the General Assembly. The 1977 elections was the second time the current legislative districting map was in effect. The districts were drawn first to achieve a population balance (districts were drawn to be within +/- 4% of each other), and then to be as geographically compact as possible. Many districts included parts of several counties. Some districts had more than one incumbent. Until 1965, the New Jersey State Senate was composed of 21 Senators, with each county electing one Senator. After the U.S. Supreme Court, in ''Reynolds v. Sims'' (more commonly known as One Man, One Vote), required redistricting by state legislatures for congressional districts to keep represented populations equal, as well as requiring both houses of state legislatures to have districts drawn that contained roughly equal populations, and to perform redistricting when needed. In 1965, the Senate was increased from 21 members to 29 members, and larger counties were given more than one seat, and some smaller counties shared one or two Senators. The map was changed again in 1967, and again in 1971, as the state adjusted to the one man, one vote ruling.
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