Web Update: Holt wins close race

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Source: Daily Princetonian

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 12 th 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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