1991 New Jersey General Assembly election

1991 New Jersey General Assembly election

November 5, 1991

All 80 seats in the New Jersey General Assembly
41 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Chuck Haytaian Joe Doria
Party Republican Democratic
Leader's seat 24th 31st
Last election 36 44
Seats before 37 43
Seats won 58 22
Seat change 21 21

Results:
     Republican gain
     Republican hold      Democratic hold

Speaker before election

Joe Doria
Democratic

Elected Speaker

Chuck Haytaian
Republican

The 1991 New Jersey General Assembly election was held on November 5, 1991.

The elections took place midway through Jim Florio's term as Governor of New Jersey. As in the concurrent New Jersey Senate elections, the Republican Party won a historic landslide, gaining 21 seats to win veto-proof supermajorities in both chambers of the state legislature. Republicans flipped at least one seat in thirteen Assembly districts and both seats in eight districts, dominating in the New Jersey suburbs and reducing the Democratic Party to a handful of urban centers.

As of 2025, the Republican Assembly majority of 58 seats is the largest for either party since the adoption of the district map in 1973. Republicans flipped a seat in districts 1, 2, 15, 21, and 34, as well as both seats in districts 4, 7, 10, 11, 14, 18, 19 and 36. From 1992 to 2002, a span of a decade, Republicans would control the Assembly.