1965 New Jersey Senate election
The 1965 New Jersey State Senate elections were held on November 2.
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The elections were the first held after the Supreme Court's Reynolds v. Sims decision, which held that New Jersey's single-seat county apportionment was unconstitutional. The ruling forced New Jersey to grant multiple seats to its largest counties (and eventually, switch to single-member districts that did not follow county lines).
The election also coincided with a landslide re-election victory for Democratic Governor Richard J. Hughes.
The result was a majority for the Democratic Party, the first since 1915.
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