TRENTON — New Jersey voters may have set another record for low turnout Tuesday — this time for a gubernatorial election.

With 99 percent of the voting precincts counted, 2,073,642 voters cast ballots for governor, according to the Associated Press. That's a shade less than 38 percent of the state's registered voters.

The voter totals will go up because they don't include provisional ballots yet to be counted, as well as those who may have voted for other offices but not governor. The record low for a governor's race is 47 percent, set four years ago.

The special U.S. Senate election held three weeks ago set the record for lowest turnout of any Jersey state level-contest: 24.5 percent.

Other Election Day numbers:

• Though she lost to Gov. Chris Christie by about 22 percentage points, Barbara Buono actually got nearly 50,000 more votes than fellow Democrat Cory Booker totaled in his double-digit win for the U.S. Senate on Oct. 16.

• Christie's win extended even into Buono's hometown of Metuchen, where he outpolled the Democrat by 76 votes.

• While 373 of Christie's Mendham Township neighbors voted for Buono, he easily won the town with 82 percent of the vote.

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