Cranford Voting Locations: Special Senate Election for Booker, Lonegan

New Jersey voters will decide on Wednesday who will fill the U.S. Senate Seat of Frank Lautenberg, who died on June 17.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Republican Steven Lonegan are the two major party candidates on the ballot for Wednesday’s election. Others running for the senate seat are Robert DePasquale, Eugene Lavergne, Stuart Meissner, Pablo Olivera, Antonio Sabas and Edward Stackhouse Jr.

In the primary election, Cranford voters favored Booker for the senate seat. Unofficial results showed 485 votes for Booker and 415 Lonegan, but the results did not include main-in ballots.

Lautenberg was the final World War II veteran in the senate. He was 89 when he died. The winner of Wednesday’s election will complete the remaining 15 months of his term.

Governor Chris Christie announced at a press conference in June that a special election would be held in order to fill Lautenberg’s seat, where he received criticism for holding the election just 20 days prior to the Nov. 5 election. Primary and special elections could run the state an estimated $12 million each. 

“The issues the Senate is facing are too important for the people of New Jersey not to have an elected representative who represents the will of the voters,” Christie said at the conference.

Polls will open at 6 a.m. and close at 8 p.m.

The polling locations in Cranford are as follows:

District 1 – Cranford Community Center Lounge

Districts 2,10,25,29 – Walnut Avenue School Gym

Districts 3-7-26, - Municipal Building Room 7

Districts 4,6,14,15 - Livingston Avenue School Gym

Districts 5,13,21 – Lincoln School Gym

Districts 8,12,30 – Bloomingdale Avenue School Gym

Districts 9,18,20,28 – Orange Avenue School Girls Gym

Districts 11-27 – Hillside Avenue School Room #49

Districts 16-23 – Cranford High School Lower Gym

Districts 17,19,22,24 – Brookside Place School Gym

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