Passaic County Democrats won tonight.

Somerset County Democrats won tonight.

Both were sweeps by the ruling party.

Sources said all days Democrats would have trouble in Passaic.

It didn’t prove to be so, as the countywide slate led by Sheriff Richard Berdnik prevailed.

Somerset, too, stood strong against Republican challengers.

Somerset in particular resounded, as the county forms the center of CD-7, where at this moment in time, incumbent U.S. Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-7) leads his GOP counterpart, Tom Kean, Jr., by a considerable margin on the strength of VBMs across the district.

The victorious Somerset slate:

Sheriff Darrin Russo

Clerk Steve Peter

Commissioner Melonie Marano.