By Donald Gilpin

With 10 of 22 Princeton districts reporting by press time last night, the race for three seats on the Princeton Public Schools Board of Education was too close to call. Incumbent Brian McDonald with about 26 percent of the votes had a slim lead over the other three candidates, incumbent Betsy Baglio, Mara Franceschi, and Jeffrey Liao, each with about 24 percent of the votes cast.

Incumbent Eve Niedergang and new candidate Leighton Newlin were unopposed on the ballot for Princeton Council and will start their new three-year terms in January.

In other local races, Democrat Andrew Zwicker held a significant lead over Republican Michael Pappas in the contest for state Senate in the 16th legislative district (which includes parts of Mercer, Hunterdon, Middlesex, and Somerset counties).

Democrat incumbent Roy Freiman and new candidate Sadaf Jaffer were leading Republican challengers Joseph Lukac III and Vincent Panico in the race for two New Jersey Assembly seats representing the 16th district.

In the election for Mercer County Surrogate, Democrat incumbent Diane Gerofsky seems to have successfully held off the challenge from Republican Douglas Miles.

The race for governor was too close to call at press time, with Democrat incumbent Phil Murphy and Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli within one or two percentage points.

On the public questions, New Jersey voters by significant margins were opposing the expansion of sports betting to college events on question No. 1 and voting to allow certain organizations to use proceeds from bingo, raffles, and other games of chance for their own organizations on question No. 2. On the Mercer County ballot question, voters were weighing in in favor of allowing the County to change the allocation of funds raised by the County for open space, recreation, farmland, and the Historic Trust Fund. For updated election results, visit mercercounty.org.