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{{short description|American Republican Party politician|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{about||the New Zealand writer|Jennifer Beck (writer)|the actress|Jenny Beck}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Jennifer Beck▼
| image =
| office = Member of the [[New Jersey Senate]]
▲| name = Jennifer Beck
| constituency = [[New Jersey's 12th legislative district|12th district]] (2008-2012)<br>[[New Jersey's 11th legislative district|11th district]] (2012-2018)
| successor = [[Vin Gopal]]▼
| state_assembly1 = New Jersey
| district1 = [[New Jersey's 12th legislative district|12th]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1967|01|3}}
| birth_place = [[Erie, Pennsylvania]]<ref>[http://district12.senatenj.com/beck.php "Senator Jennifer Beck"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091205232736/http://district12.senatenj.com/beck.php |date=2009-12-05 }}, district12.senatenj.com, accessed November 5, 2009.</ref>
| spouse =
| alma_mater = [[University of Pennsylvania]], M.A. <br> [[Boston College]], B.A.▼
| party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| religion =
▲| alma_mater = [[University of Pennsylvania]], M.A. <br> [[Boston College]], B.A.
▲| term_start = January 10, 2012
▲| predecessor = [[Sean T. Kean]]
▲| successor =
▲|term_start2=January 8, 2008
▲|term_start3 =January 10, 2006
▲|term_end3 =January 8, 2008
▲|predecessor3 = [[Robert Lewis Morgan]]
▲|successor3= [[Caroline Casagrande]]<br>[[Declan O'Scanlon]]
}}
'''Jennifer Beck''' (born January 3, 1967) is an American [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] politician who
==Political career==
Beck is a former [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] fundraiser who served for six years on the [[Red Bank, New Jersey|Red Bank]] Borough Council, from 1999 to 2005.<ref name=NJLEG/> She holds a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] from [[Boston College]] (Physics and Mathematics) and was awarded an M.A. from the [[University of Pennsylvania]] (Government Administration).<ref name=NJLEG/> Beck is also an alumna of the [[Fels Institute of Government]] at the University of Pennsylvania.{{Citation needed|date=November 2011}}
Beck won a very close Assembly election on November 8, 2005. As of December 6, 2005, she was declared winner of one of the seats, and was the top vote getter in the District with 31,418 votes. [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] freshman Assemblyman [[Michael J. Panter]] won re-election with 30,466 votes, narrowly edging Beck's running mate, [[Declan O'Scanlon]], who had 30,401 votes, just 65 fewer than Panter. One-term incumbent [[Robert Lewis Morgan]] lost his bid for re-election, coming in fourth with 30,228 votes. Two [[Green Party (United States)|Green Party]] candidates each received about 2,000 votes.<ref>Quirk, James A. [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_docid=10E6D247D8EC6EA0&p_docnum=3&p_queryname=NaN&p_product=NewsBank&p_theme=aggregated4&p_nbid=T53G5ACRMTE4NTg0NzQ0OS4yODY4NjU6MTo3OnJhLTE4ODg "O'Scanlon concedes defeat to Panter INCUMBENT SECURES VICTORY BY 73 VOTES"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', December 7, 2005. Accessed August 1, 2007. "Panter, who beat O'Scanlon by a 73-vote margin, will return to Trenton next year with Republican Jennifer Beck, who received the most votes in the election. Assemblyman Robert Morgan, Panter's running mate, received the
While in the Assembly, Beck served on the Judiciary Committee, the State Government Committee and the Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee.<ref name=NJLEG>[http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/BIO.asp?Leg=303 Assemblywoman Beck's legislative web page], [[New Jersey Legislature]]. Accessed February 21, 2008.</ref>
In the 2007 general election, Beck won her bid for a seat in the [[New Jersey Senate]] in a race against
In November 2008, a petition was launched to urge the 2009 Republican nominee for [[Governor of New Jersey]] to select Beck as his/her [[Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey|lieutenant governor]]. Nevertheless, on July 20, 2009, nominee [[Chris Christie]] announced that he had chosen [[Kim Guadagno|Kimberly Guadagno]], [[Monmouth County, New Jersey|Monmouth County]] [[Sheriffs in the United States|sheriff]], to complete his campaign ticket as a candidate for lieutenant governor.<ref>{{
Described by [[NJ.com]] as "perhaps the biggest upset of the night", Beck lost her bid for re-election in 2017 to Democratic challenger [[Vin Gopal]], in what was the third-most expensive of the 120 legislative races statewide, with total spending in excess of $4 million.<ref>Sullivan, S. P.; and Johnson, Brent. [http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/11/nj_election_results_2017_democrats_increase_contro.html "N.J. election results 2017: How the dramatic legislative races shook out"], NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], November 8, 2017. Accessed November 9, 2017. "In perhaps the biggest upset of the night, former Monmouth County Democratic Chair Vin Gopal unseated veteran Republican state Sen. Jennifer Beck in the 11th District along the Jersey Shore.... The candidates and outside special interest groups spent more than $4 million on the race -- the third-most of any legislative election this year."</ref> The district had been represented only by Republicans since 1992. With the addition of heavily Democratic communities like [[Asbury Park, New Jersey|Asbury Park]] in the [[New Jersey Legislative Districts, 2011 apportionment|2011 apportionment]], Democrats gained a 32%-23% margin over Republicans in numbers of registered voters. Democrats [[Joann Downey]] and [[Eric Houghtaling]] won the two Assembly seats in 2015 and Gopal's win over Beck by an Election Day count of 28,750 votes to 25,108 put all three District 11 seats in the hands of Democrats.<ref>Napoliello, Alex. [http://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf/2017/11/vin_gopal_upsets_incumbent_jennifer_beck_in_hotly.html "Vin Gopal upsets incumbent Jennifer Beck in hotly contested Dist. 11 race"], NJ Advance media for [[NJ.com]], November 7, 2017. Accessed November 9, 2017. "According to unofficial results from the Monmouth County Clerk's Office, Gopal defeated Beck 28,750 votes to 25,108 votes.... This Shore district was once completely controlled by Republican lawmakers, but it saw a shift two years ago when Democrats picked up both its Assembly seats. And in redistricting, District 11 picked up Democratic towns such as Asbury Park. Democrats outnumber Republicans 32 percent to 23 percent in the district."</ref>
===Election history===
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{{Election box begin no change | title= New Jersey State Senate elections, 2013<ref name=Results2013>{{cite web |url=http://www.njelections.org/2013-results/2013-official-general-election-results-state-senate.pdf |title=Official List Candidates for State Senate For GENERAL ELECTION 11/05/2015 Election |publisher=[[Secretary of State of New Jersey]] |date=December 4, 2013 |accessdate=July 3, 2015}}</ref>}}▼
| title = 11th Legislative District general election<ref name="SenateGeneral">{{cite web|title=Official List, Candidates for State Senate For GENERAL ELECTION 11/07/2017 Election|url=http://nj.gov/state/elections/2017-results/2017-official-general-election-results-state-senate.pdf|publisher=[[Secretary of State of New Jersey]]|access-date=December 3, 2017|date=November 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205042116/http://nj.gov/state/elections/2017-results/2017-official-general-election-results-state-senate.pdf|archive-date=December 5, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
| candidate = Vin Gopal
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 31,308
| percentage = 53.6
| change = {{increase}} 14.8
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
| candidate = Jennifer Beck (incumbent)
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 27,150
| percentage = 46.4
| change = {{decrease}} 13.6
}}
{{Election box total
| votes = 58,458
| percentage = 100.0
}}
{{Election box gain with party link without swing|
|winner = Democratic Party (United States)
|loser = Republican Party (United States)
}}
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▲{{Election box begin no change | title= New Jersey State Senate elections, 2013<ref name=Results2013>{{cite web |url=http://www.njelections.org/2013-results/2013-official-general-election-results-state-senate.pdf |title=Official List Candidates for State Senate For GENERAL ELECTION 11/05/2015 Election |publisher=[[Secretary of State of New Jersey]] |date=December 4, 2013 |
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
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{{Election box begin no change | title= New Jersey State Senate elections, 2011<ref name=Results2011>[http://www.njelections.org/election-results/2011-official-gen-elect-state-senate-results-121411.pdf Official List Candidate Returns for State Senate For November 2011 General Election] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120713071730/http://www.njelections.org/election-results/2011-official-gen-elect-state-senate-results-121411.pdf |date=2012-07-13 }}, [[New Jersey Department of State]], December 14, 2011. Accessed June 22, 2012.</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
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{{Election box begin no change | title= New Jersey State Senate elections, 2007<ref>[http://njelections.org/election-results/2007-official-general-election-tallies(ss)-12.3.07.pdf Official List Candidate Returns for State Senate For November 2007 General Election] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822234540/http://www.njelections.org/election-results/2007-official-general-election-tallies(ss)-12.3.07.pdf |date=2012-08-22 }}, [[New Jersey Department of State]], December 3, 2007. Accessed June 22, 2012.</ref>}}{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Jennifer Beck
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{{Election box begin no change | title=New Jersey General Assembly elections, 2005<ref name=Results2005>{{cite web |url=http://www.njelections.org/election-results/2005_Official_General_Assembly_tallies.pdf |title=Official List Candidate Returns for General Assembly for November 2005 General Election |publisher=Secretary of State of New Jersey |date=December 16, 2005 |
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
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*[http://jenniferbecknj.com Senator Jennifer Beck's Official Website]
*[http://beck.senatenj.com Senator Jennifer Beck's Official Senate Site]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090105185139/http://district12.senatenj.com/ 12th Legislative District Official Site]
*[http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/BIO.asp?Leg=303 Senator Beck's legislative web page], [[New Jersey Legislature]]
*''New Jersey Legislature financial disclosure forms''
**[http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2016.pdf 2016] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2015.pdf 2015] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2014.pdf 2014] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2013.pdf 2013] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2012.pdf 2012] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2011.pdf 2011] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2010.pdf 2010] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2009.pdf 2009] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2008.pdf 2008] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2007.pdf 2007] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2006.pdf 2006] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2005.pdf 2005]
*[http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/58104 Jennifer Beck], [[Project Vote Smart]]
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