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Last updated: Oct. 29, 2024
Thousands of general elections are taking place across the United States on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include offices at the federal, state, and local levels. This is one of 50 pages in which Ballotpedia previews the elections happening in each state as part of the Daily Brew’s 50 states in 25 days series.
This page provides an overview of all elections happening in New Jersey within our coverage scope on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include one for the U.S. Senate and 12 for the U.S. House. This page also includes more information about election day in New Jersey, including:
- How to vote in New Jersey
- The elected offices that New Jersey voters can expect to see on their ballots
- The races in New Jersey that Ballotpedia is covering as battlegrounds
- The ballot measures that voters in New Jersey will decide on
- Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool
- The partisan balance of New Jersey's congressional delegation and state government
- Past presidential election results in New Jersey
- The competitiveness of legislative elections in New Jersey
- The candidates who are on the ballot in New Jersey
Voting information
- See also: Voting in New Jersey
What's on the ballot?
2024 elections
- See also: New Jersey elections, 2024
At the federal level, Nersey voters will elect one U.S. Senator and 12 U.S. Representatives. To learn more about the U.S. Senate election in New Jersey, click here. To learn more about the U.S. House elections in New Jersey, click here.
As a part of Ballotpedia's coverage of the 100 largest cities by population and 200 largest school districts by student enrollment, we are covering school board elections in Jersey City. Incumbents are running in 10 districts and two districts are open: District Three and District Nine. Both are currently represented by Democrats.
Municipal elections will be held in Essex County for register of deeds and mortgages and sheriff and in Hudson County for county surrogate. Essex County and Hudson County are two of 80 counties included in Ballotpedia's coverage of municipal elections.
Below is a list of New Jersey elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2024. Click the links to learn more about each type:
| New Jersey elections, 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Office | Elections? | More information |
| U.S. Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| U.S. House | ✓ | Click here |
| Congress special election | ✓ | Click here |
| Governor | — | — |
| Other state executive | — | — |
| State Senate | — | — |
| State House | — | — |
| Special state legislative | — | — |
| State Supreme Court | — | — |
| Intermediate appellate courts | — | — |
| School boards | ✓ | Click here |
| Municipal government | ✓ | Click here |
| Recalls | — | — |
| Ballot measures | — | — |
| Local ballot measures | — | — |
Legend: ✓ election(s) / — no elections
Subject to Ballotpedia's scope
Your ballot
- See also: Sample Ballot Lookup
Noteworthy elections
Below is a list of races in this state that are receiving in-depth coverage on Ballotpedia. Click the link below to learn about that race.
- New Jersey's 7th Congressional District election, 2024
- United States Senate election in New Jersey, 2024
Ballot measures
There are no statewide ballot measures on the ballot in New Jersey.
State analysis
Partisan balance
A total of two Democrats represent New Jersey in the Senate. Andrew Kim (D), Curtis Bashaw (R), and four other candidates ran in New Jersey's U.S. Senate election on November 5, 2024. The election filled the Senate seat formerly held by Bob Menendez Sr. (D), who first took office in 2006. Menendez resigned on August 20, 2024, and withdrew from this race, following his indictment on federal corruption charges. Gov. Phil Murphy (D) appointed George Helmy (D) on September 9, 2024 to serve until the election results were certified.[1] There are 47 Democrats, 49 Republicans, and four independents. Three independents caucus with the Democratic Party, and one other counts towards the Democratic majority for committee purposes.
A total of eight Democrats and three Republicans represent New Jersey in the House. Republicans have a 220-212 majority with three vacancies.
Past presidential election results in New Jersey
How a state's counties vote in a presidential election and the size of those counties can provide additional insights into election outcomes at other levels of government including statewide and congressional races. Below, four categories are used to describe each county's voting pattern over the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections: Solid, Trending, Battleground, and New. Click [show] on the table below for examples:
| County-level voting pattern categories | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Democratic | D | D | D | ||||
| Trending Democratic | R | D | D | ||||
| Battleground Democratic | D | R | D | ||||
| New Democratic | R | R | D | ||||
| Republican | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Republican | R | R | R | ||||
| Trending Republican | D | R | R | ||||
| Battleground Republican | R | D | R | ||||
| New Republican | D | D | R | ||||
Following the 2020 presidential election, 71.6% of New Jerseyans lived in one of the state's 12 Solid Democratic counties, which voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election from 2012 to 2020, and 18.9% lived in one of six Solid Republican counties. Overall, New Jersey was Solid Democratic, having voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2012, Hillary Clinton (D) in 2016, and Joe Biden (D) in 2020. Use the table below to view the total number of each type of county in New Jersey following the 2020 election as well as the overall percentage of the state population located in each county type.
| New Jersey county-level statistics, 2020 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solid Democratic | 12 | 71.6% | |||||
| Solid Republican | 6 | 18.9% | |||||
| New Democratic | 1 | 5.5% | |||||
| Battleground Democratic | 1 | 3.3% | |||||
| Trending Republican | 1 | 0.7% | |||||
| Total voted Democratic | 14 | 80.4% | |||||
| Total voted Republican | 7 | 19.6% | |||||
List of candidates
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Why Not Wynn Party | Lost General | ||
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U.S. House New Jersey District 10 (Special election) | Democratic | Won General | |
 | U.S. House New Jersey District 10 (Special election) | Republican | Lost General |
U.S. House New Jersey District 10 (Special election) | Creating Real Progress | Lost General | |
 | U.S. House New Jersey District 10 (Special election) | Democratic | Lost Primary |
 | U.S. House New Jersey District 10 (Special election) | Democratic | Lost Primary |
U.S. House New Jersey District 10 (Special election) | Democratic | Lost Primary | |
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U.S. House New Jersey District 10 (Special election) | Democratic | Lost Primary | |
 | U.S. House New Jersey District 10 (Special election) | One for All | Lost General |
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| Republican | Lost General | |
All Of Us! Party | Lost General | ||
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= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
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 | Newark Public Schools Board of Education (Special election) | Nonpartisan | Won General |
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= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
See also
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