Appellate court reverses Cherry Hill Democratic county committee ruling

A panel of state appellate court judges today reversed a lower court ruling that had ordered 71 organization-backed candidates for county committee seats in Cherry Hill to be seated alongside three progressives who won the June 2025 primary, concluding that voter intent must prevail.

The three elected candidates will have the authority to fill all 71 vacancies.

“The majority of voters selected the oval demarcating the Progressive Democrats to serve as elected members on the Cherry Hill Committee,” the decision stated. “The election result left a failure to elect candidates for the remaining seventy-one seats.”

Cherry Hill elects its county committee members at-large in a winner-take-all contest, with a single vote cast for an entire slate. A South Jersey Progressive Democrats slate of three — Susan Druckenbrod, Rena Margulis, and Dave Stahl — received 5,547 votes, while the 74-member party-endorsed slate received 3,350.




https://newjerseyglobe.com/local/appellate-court-reverses-cherry-hill-democratic-county-committee-ruling/