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Characteristics of incumbents defeated in state legislative elections, 2025

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Last updated on July 11, 2025


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This analysis provides descriptive detail about the incumbents defeated in 2025, including political background like length of tenure and recent media coverage and district characteristics like location and redistricting history.

Each year, Ballotpedia publishes data onincumbents defeated in state legislative elections, including the number of incumbents who ran, were contested, and lost in each state. That analysis tracks the raw historical data on incumbent defeats in state legislative elections.Click here to view the 2025 data.

HIGHLIGHTS
  • Three incumbents lost in state legislative primary elections in 2025.
  • Theiraverage length of tenure in the seat they lost wastwo years.
  • No incumbents lost in districts that had beenredrawn since the previous election.


    • On this page you will find:

    Overview

    See also:Incumbents defeated in state legislative elections, 2025

    Primary elections

    In state legislative primaries,three incumbents lost to challengers,1.7% of incumbents running for re-election and7.9% of incumbents in contested primaries. This was fewer than eight in2021 and more than the low of zero in2017 since 2011.

    Click [show] on the header below to see a full list of incumbents defeated in primaries by state. Winners marked with (i) were incumbents from the same chamber.


    Political background

    This section compiles data about the length of tenure of incumbents defeated in 2025 and recent media coverage of incumbents defeated in 2025. The three incumbents defeated in 2025 had atenure of two years in their state legislative office.

    Length of tenure

    See also:Length of terms of state senators
    See also:Length of terms of state representatives

    The table below shows the lengths of tenure of each incumbent defeated in 2025. The length reported below reflects their total tenure at the end of their term.

    Length of tenure of defeated state legislative incumbents, 2025
    NamePartyDistrictTenure (years)
    Garnett HallDemocraticNew Jersey General Assembly District 282
    Barbara McCann StamatoDemocraticNew Jersey General Assembly District 312
    Jessica RamirezDemocraticNew Jersey General Assembly District 322
    Average  2

    Media coverage

    This section provides links to recent media coverage about each incumbent defeated in 2025.

    District characteristics

    This section presents district characteristics like geographic location and information related to redistricting.

    District and state details

    The map below shows the number of defeated incumbents per state in 2025.

    The tabs below contain maps highlighting the districts where incumbents lost in each chamber.

    New Jersey

    New Jersey General Assembly

    The map below shows the districts in the New Jersey General Assembly where incumbents lost in 2025.

    Redistricting

    Of the three incumbents who lost in the 2025 primary elections,none had districts that were redrawn since the previous election.

    New Jersey General Assembly

    See also:Redistricting in New Jersey after the 2020 census

    On February 18, 2022, the New Jersey Legislative Reapportionment Commission voted to approve a new set of state legislative maps.[1] The commission voted 9-2 to approve the maps.Thomas Kean Jr. (R) and Cosmo A. Cirillo (D) were the two dissenting votes.[2] TheNew Jersey Monitor's Nikita Biryukov wrote that the vote was "an unprecedented compromise for a commission that has historically relied on a court-appointed tiebreaker to end partisan gridlock."[1]

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