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Chris Smith, N.J.'s longest-serving congressman, wins 23rd House term
Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester), the longest-serving congressman in New Jersey history, has won re-election to a 23rd term in the 4th congressional district, the New Jersey Globe projects. As of 1:27 a.m., Smith leads Democratic businessman Matt Jenkins by 37 points, 68% to 31%, in New Jersey's most Republican-leaning congressional district.
Smith's first election to Congress was something of an upset: in 1980, at the age of 27, he unseated long-serving Rep. Frank Thompson (D-Trenton) after Thompson was implicated in the Abscam corruption scandal. (Thompson was later convicted and served two years in prison.)