candidate, two months after the primary. Treffinger was re-elected to a second term as executive in 1998, defeating former Newark mayor Kenneth A. Gibson by 50-47%. After two failed bids for United States Senate in 2000 and 2002, as well as facing federal corruption charges, Treffinger chose not seek re-election as executive in 2002. Joe DiVincenzo: 2003–present After 11 years as a freeholder, Democrat Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. was elected to his first term as executive in 2002, defeating Republican Candy Straight with more than 70% of the vote. DiVincenzo was re-elected in 2006 with 121,490 votes (76.4% of the total), ahead of Republican Joseph Chiusolo with 32,728 (20.7%) and independents Donald Page 3,346 (2.0%) and George M. Tillman 1,349 (0.84%). He defeated Herbert Glenn in 2010 to win his third term in office, making him the longest-serving executive in county history. In 2010, DiVincenzo received 113,457 votes (75.1% of ballots cast), ahead of Glenn with 32,885 (21.8%) and Independent Marilynn M. English with 4,529 (3.0%). He won his fourth term in 2014 with a victory against Peter Tanella of Cedar Grove, by a margin of 95,574 to 28,683, taking 76.7% of the vote to 23.0% for Tanella. DiVincenzo announced in December 2017 that he would be running for a fifth term of office. He won the 2018 election with 80% of votes cast. See also Politics of Essex County, New Jersey Atlantic County Executive Bergen County Executive Hudson County Executive Mercer County Executive References 1977 establishments in New Jersey County government in New Jersey