Gove was selected on August 12, 2009, by delegates from the
Ocean County,
Atlantic County, and
Burlington County Republican Committees to fill a vacancy in the General Assembly created by the resignation of Republican Assemblyman
Daniel Van Pelt on July 31, 2009. Van Pelt had been arrested as part of
Operation Bid Rig by federal agents on July 23, 2009, and charged with accepting a $10,000 bribe from a cooperating witness. At the special convention, all others candidates for the seat formally withdrew their names from contention and endorsed Gove. She served the remainder of Van Pelt's term, which ended in January 2010. She also replaced Van Pelt on the November ballot, running for a term in her own right. Gove stated that "getting the confidence of the people back into government" was an important part of her campaign. Gove decided not to run in the June 2023 primary, after a screening committee supported incumbent Rumpf and newcomer
Greg Myhre for the two Assembly seats. == Electoral history ==