New Jersey’s most conservative member of Congress, Scott Garrett, handily won re-election to a fifth term by defeating Democrat Tod Theise and three other candidates in the 5th Congressional District.

Garrett, of Sussex County, solidified his position in the House of Representatives and an increasingly right-leaning national GOP party by racking up another big win today, this time against Theise of Warren County.

Theise, like predecessor Democrats who failed to dent Garrett’s armor, claimed he is too extreme and out-of-touch with his mainly moderate constituency.

But voters in the district, which has long been a Republican stronghold, delivered to Garrett one of his largest margins of victory.

Green Party candidate Ed Fanning and independents Mark Quick and James Douglas Radigan also lost today.