1969 New Jersey gubernatorial election
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County results Cahill: 50–60% 60–70% Meyner: 50–60% | |||||||||||||||||
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The 1969 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1969. Republican nominee William T. Cahill defeated Democratic nominee Robert B. Meyner with 59.66% of the vote. This was the only gubernatorial election that Republicans won between 1949 and 1981.
Primary elections were held on June 3. Turnout in the primary was approximately 24 percent of the registered voter population. Cahill won the Republican nomination narrowly over fellow South Jersey Congressman Charles W. Sandman Jr., while Meyner finished with nearly twice the vote of his closest competitor, state senator William F. Kelly of Hudson County.
This is the first gubernatorial election in which a Republican won Hudson County.