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Miller Carried Home District, Election Results Show

Newcomer Curt Ritter won all but two districts in Chatham Township, updated election results were released after Tuesday's primary.

Green Village resident Daniel Miller carried his home district by a comfortable margin in Tuesday's primary elections, updated results show.

Chatham Township Clerk Gregory LaConte released updated election results, including mail-in ballots received by Morris County, after Miller's two fellow candidates were declared the winners in the election.

While the updated tallies do not change the end result of Curt Ritter and Deputy Mayor Robert Gallop winning the two seats on the Chatham Township Committee next year, they do provide insight into voter's minds.

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Miller earned 59 votes in District 1, compared to Ritter's 39 and Gallop's 29.

In his first public election for township office, Ritter finished first in every other district save District 10, the township's largest district, which cast 79 votes for Gallop and 75 for Miller to Ritter's 72.

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Including the 31 mail-in ballots, Ritter finished the race with 710 votes, Gallop with 564 and Miller with 534.

No Democrats filed to run for the Chatham Township Committee.

A total of 1,145 voters turned out for Tuesday's primary election out of the township's 7,657 registered voters.

Full results for the Chatham Township Committee race by district may be found in the table below.

Chatham Township Committee Republican Primary Election Results (Local) Robert Gallop Curt Ritter Daniel S. Miller District 1 Machine 1 14 19 30 Machine 2 14 20 29 District 2 Machine 1 30 41 35 Machine 2 31 45 31 District 3 Machine 1 36 59 38 Machine 2 24 37 29 District 4 Machine 1 8 16 10 Machine 2 18 28 28 District 5 Machine 1 30 26 20 Machine 2 22 29 13 District 6 Machine 1 27 54 20 Machine 2 18 36 17 District 7 Machine 1 34 33 31 Machine 2 40 44 32 District 8 Machine 1 38 41 26 Machine 2 41 42 28 District 9 Machine 1 15 22 10 Machine 2 25 29 23 District 10 Machine 1 28 26 27 Machine 2
51 46 48 Mail-in Ballots 20 18 9 Total 564 710 534


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