New Jersey's 10th Legislative District is one of 40 in the state, covering the Ocean County municipalities of Bay Head Borough, Brick Township, Island Heights Borough, Lakehurst Borough, Lavallette Borough, Manchester Township, Mantoloking Borough, Point Pleasant Beach Borough, Seaside Heights Borough and Toms River Township as of the 2011 apportionment. Demographic characteristics As of the 2020 United States census, the district had a population of 228,713, of whom 190,141 (83.1%) were of voting age. The racial makeup of the district was 187,759 (82.1%) White, 8,128 (3.6%) African American, 929 (0.4%) Native American, 6,436 (2.8%) Asian, 36 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, 8,690 (3.8%) from some other race, and 16,735 (7.3%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 25,017 (10.9%) of the population. The district had 181,208 registered voters as of December 1, 2021, of whom 69,932 (38.6%) were registered as unaffiliated, 65,241 (36.0%) were registered as Republicans, 43,457 (24.0%) were registered as Democrats, and 2,578 (1.4%) were registered to other parties. Political representation For the 2022–2023 session, the district is represented in the State Senate by James W. Holzapfel (R, Toms River) and in the General Assembly by John Catalano (R, Brick Township) and Gregory P. McGuckin (R, Toms River). The legislative district is entirely within New Jersey's 4th congressional district. 1965–1973 Following the 1964 Supreme Court decision in Reynolds v. Sims, legislative districts were required to be made as equal as possible with regards to total population. In the State Senate elections held in 1965, the 10th District consisted of Morris, Sussex, and Warren counties. For the remainder of the terms from the 1967 elections until the 1973 elections, it consisted of only Morris County with the district split into two Assembly districts (10A and 10B). Two Senators were elected from this district in each of the regular Senate elections held. Republicans Thomas J. Hillery and Milton Woolfenden, Jr. were elected in 1965. Harry L. Sears and Joseph J. Maraziti (both Republican) won the 1967 election for a four-year term. Republicans Maraziti and Peter W. Thomas won the 1971 election, though both would not complete their term; Maraziti was elected to Congress in 1972 and resigned shortly before taking office in January 1973 and Thomas would resign on November 29, 1973 to become a Superior Court judge. Democrat Stephen B. Wiley would win the remainder of Maraziti's term in a 1973 special election. For the 1967