Six legislators will face no opposition in the November general election, as long as no write-in candidate wins 100 votes in the primary: Democrats Joseph Cryan and Annette Quijano in District 20, Republicans Alison McHose and Gary Chiusano in District 24, and Democrats Joan Quigley and Vincent Prieto in District 32. Cryan is the Democratic State Chairman, and Quijano is a freshman who won a 2008 special election following the resignation of Neil Cohen. None of these districts are politically competitive.
Republicans win the award for best candidate recruitment in an impossible district: former Newark Municipal Court Judge Fred Linhares, who is running in the 29th district. District 29 is the most Democratic district in the state; indeed, no Republican has ever won more than 17% of the vote since the district was created in 1973. Linhares, a former Democrat, has no chance of winning, but he could be positioning himself for a top appointment in a GOP administration.
