Web Update: Holt wins close race

Democratic Rep. Rush Holt defeated Scott Sipprelle, his Republican challenger, by 7 percentage points in Tuesday’s election. Holt received 53 percent of the vote, while Sipprelle had 46 percent.

Holt, the former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, earned a seventh term in Congress and will represent the state’s 12th District, which includes Princeton and other parts of central New Jersey.

It was the closest race for Holt following the redistricting that preceded the 2002 election. Going into this election, he won his previous four races by margins between 18 and 31 percentage points. But Sipprelle, a Wall Street banker-turned-entrepreneur, held Holt to a tight victory this year.

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