Byram mayor among incumbents who won re-election amid challenges
Election 2021. Alexander Rubenstein easily won re-election against two challengers for Byram mayor. The incumbents in Stanhope and Byram also prevailed against their challengers, as did the incumbent county commissioners. There will be two new faces on the Andover Township Council. All results are unofficial.
SUSSEX COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (three-year term)
WINNER: Dawn Fantasia (R, incumbent) 33,988
WINNER: Christopher Carney (R, incumbent) 32,010
Scott Paul (D) 15,082
Michael Vrabel (D) 14,683
SUSSEX COUNTY CLERK (five-year term)
WINNER: Jeffrey M. Parrot (incumbent) 41,952
ANDOVER BOROUGH COUNCIL (three-year term)
WINNER: Robert Smith (R, incumbent) 158
WINNER: Melvin Dennison (R, incumbent) 151
ANDOVER TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE (three-year term)
WINNER: Janis McGovern (R) 1,645
WINNER: Eric Karr (R) 1,526
BYRAM TOWNSHIP MAYOR (four-year term)
WINNER: Alexander Rubenstein (incumbent) 1,539
Michael Dennehy 889
Daniel Rafferty 785
BYRAM TOWNSHIP COUNCIL
WINNER: Harvey Roseff (incumbent) 1,656
Gregory Smith II 1,300
STANHOPE BOROUGH COUNCIL (three-year term)
WINNER: William Thornton (R, incumbent) 841
WINNER: Eugene M. Wronko (R, incumbent) 781
Najib Iftikhar (D) 735
STANHOPE BOROUGH COUNCIL (one-year term)
WINNER: Michael Vance (R, incumbent) 776
Owen John Newson (D) 451
LENAPE VALLEY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL BOARD OF EDUCATION (three-year term)
Byram:
WINNER: Kim Dachisen 2.321
WINNER: Kimberly Marcisak 2,162
ANDOVER REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION (three-year term)
Andover Township:
WINNER: Lena Sciroppo (incumbent) 1,591
BYRAM TOWNSHIP BOARD OF EDUCATION (three-year term)
WINNER: Kristy McFarlane (incumbent) 1,885
WINNER: Courtny Gallagher 1,403
Allyson Botto (incumbent) 1,389
BYRAM TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS BOARD OF EDUCATION (one-year term)
WINNER: Susan E. McCall 1,648
Carlos B. Luaces 1,116
STANHOPE BOROUGH SCHOOLS BOARD OF EDUCATION (three-year term)
WINNER: Gilbert Moscatello (incumbent) 937
WINNER: F. Frank Shay (incumbent) 921
NURSING HOME INVESTIGATION
Voters overwhelmingly — 41,664 to 9,854 — approved the proposition asking the Sussex County commissioners to conduct an “independent, public, bi-partisan legislative investigation” into the state’s management of long-term care facilities during Covid, and to “consider every legal action necessary to compel the Governor and the Legislature to release all public information requested by Sussex County.”