June will see two critical elections on the same day, to pick Democratic and Republican candidates for governor, and for locomotive engineers to ratify a tentative contract that ended a strike .

Ballots were emailed this week to the 450 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen that are due back by June 10, the same day as the state’s primary election.

Unlike the primary, results of the BLE&T ratification vote will be announced after 3 p.m., said Jamie Horwitz, a union spokesperson.

That schedule allows NJ Transits board of directors to vote on the contract at its June 11 meeting, if union members approve it.

Union members voted to reject a tentative contract in April over annual wage increases.

The union called the second rail strike in NJ Transit’s history on

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