Toms River: who represents it, and who is running
U.S. general election (federal and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Booker seat: Booker* D, Murphy R, Fernandez 'End the Corruption!', Kuniansky Socialist Workers Party); U.S. Representative NJ-4 (Smith* R, Peace D); Ocean County offices and possibly Toms River municipal / school board seats (Ocean County Clerk unreachable — not captured). No Governor or Legislature contest in 2026 (Governor elected 2025; Senate 2027; Assembly 2027)..
Holding office15
the sitting council
On the ballot6
2 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Toms River is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): New Jersey's 4th congressional district (Town Hall, 33 Washington St, and all 19 sampled points inside Toms River township) — Christopher H. Smith (Republican)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel T. Rodrick ✉️ Elected | Mayor | Independent | Township of Toms River |
2
Council Member
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinton Bradley Elected | Council Member | Independent | Ward 2 | Township of Toms River |
| Craig Coleman Elected | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | Township of Toms River |
| David Ciccozzi Elected | Council Member | Independent | Ward 4 | Township of Toms River |
| Harry Aber Elected | Council Member | Independent | Ward 3 | Township of Toms River |
| Lynne O'Toole Elected | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | Township of Toms River |
| Robert Bianchini Elected | Council Member | Independent | Ward 1 | Township of Toms River |
| Thomas Nivison Elected | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | Township of Toms River |
3
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mikie Sherrill Elected | Governor | Democratic | Office of New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill |
4
Member of the General Assembly — LD-10
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gregory P. McGuckin Elected unofficial | Member of the General Assembly | Republican | New Jersey Division of Elections | |
| Paul Kanitra Elected unofficial | Member of the General Assembly | Republican | New Jersey Division of Elections |
5
State Senator — LD-10
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Holzapfel Elected unofficial | State Senator | Republican | New Jersey Division of Elections |
6
U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andy Kim Elected | U.S. Senator | Democratic | @unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0) | |
| Cory A. Booker Elected | U.S. Senator → Running | Democratic | @unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0) | |
| Joanne Kuniansky | U.S. Senator Running | Socialist Workers | New Jersey Division of Elections | |
| Justin Murphy | U.S. Senator Running | Republican | New Jersey Division of Elections | |
| Veronica Fernandez | U.S. Senator Running | End the Corruption! | New Jersey Division of Elections |
7
U.S. Representative — NJ-4
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher H. Smith Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Republican | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Rachel Peace | U.S. Representative Running | Democratic | New Jersey Division of Elections |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Candidates: New Jersey Division of Elections official lists — US Senate (dated 07/27/2026; all four candidates printed for OCEAN county) and House of Representatives (dated 09/04/2026; Fourth Congressional District: MONMOUTH (part) - OCEAN (part): Christopher H. Smith * Republican, Rachel Peace Democratic, no others), read 2026-10-31. Both lists print candidates' addresses (P.O. boxes and street addresses) — none copied. Write-ins skipped.
- BLOCKED / NOT CAPTURED: the Ocean County Clerk's site (www.co.ocean.nj.us and co.ocean.nj.us) timed out on robots.txt over HTTPS and HTTP, 2026-10-31 — so no other URL there was requested. A web search shows the Clerk posts a '2026 general election candidate' certification sheet (search snippet: updated 8-31-2026, listing towns such as Little Egg Harbor, Mantoloking and South Toms River; e.g. https://www.co.ocean.nj.us/WebContentFiles/a6ad1195-1bbf-442f-bbd0-b4398929f0ef.pdf) — not read, so whether any Toms River Township Council seat or the Toms River Regional Board of Education is on the 2026-11-03 ballot is unverified. Patch's 2025 voter guide (news, not used for status) says all four ward seats were up in 2025 for four-year terms, which would put the next ward election in 2029 and the Mayor/at-large seats in 2027 — not confirmed on an official calendar. Jim: re-read that Ocean County PDF to fill Toms River municipal candidates if any.
- Municipal: Mayor Daniel T. Rodrick from the Mayor's Office page (official email as printed; office phone/fax not copied); seven Council members (four wards, three at-large) and the 2026 President/Vice President from /233/Township-Council, retrieved 2026-10-31. The council page prints no emails or portraits. Toms River holds partisan municipal elections but the township pages print no party: party null.
- Districts: Census geocoder (robots 404) at Town Hall: NJ-4 (120th), State Senate District 10 / Assembly District 10. A 7x7 coordinate grid over 39.90-40.06 N, 74.30-74.06 W: 19 points inside 'Toms River township', all NJ-4 and LD-10. The township is a Census county subdivision (not an incorporated place); a sliver of NJ-2 could be missed by the grid.
- Sitting members: NJ-4 from house.gov/representatives (robots allows; read 2026-10-31). Senators Booker and Kim and Governor Sherrill carried from the us-newark record (CC0 @unitedstates list; nj.gov/governor; read 2026-10-22). LD-10 legislators from the Division of Elections' official 2023 State Senate and 2025 General Assembly District 10 results (flagged unofficial:true for current tenure): www.njleg.state.nj.us timed out on robots.txt, 2026-10-31 (earlier runs: connection refused). No legislative emails or photos.
- Robots/terms: www.tomsrivertownship.com robots.txt has a group naming ClaudeBot that disallows only admin/search/calendar/RSS-type paths; Crawl-delay 10 honoured. www.nj.gov robots allows /state/elections/. No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null throughout.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-10-31. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- Township of Toms River — Township Council 7
- New Jersey Division of Elections — Official List, Candidates for US Senate, General Election 11/03/2026 (dated 07/27/2026) 3
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0) — senate.gov returned 403 to robots.txt 2
- New Jersey Division of Elections — 2025 Official General Election Results, General Assembly LD-10 (njleg unreachable) 2
- Township of Toms River — Mayor's Office 1
- New Jersey Division of Elections — 2023 Official General Election Results, State Senate (dated 12/06/2023; njleg unreachable) 1
- Office of New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill — About 1
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (New Jersey, 4th: 'Smith, Christopher', R) 1
- New Jersey Division of Elections — Official List, Candidates for House of Representatives, General Election 11/03/2026 (dated 09/04/2026) 1