United States House elections in New Jersey, 2020 (July 7 Democratic primaries)
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The 2020 U.S. House of Representatives elections in New Jersey took place on November 3, 2020. Voters elected 12 candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's 12 congressional districts. This page focuses on the Democratic primaries that took place in New Jersey on July 7, 2020.
Click here for more information about the Republican primaries.
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A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. New Jersey utilizes a semi-closed primary process, in which the selection of a party's candidates in an election is generally limited to registered party members. Unaffiliated voters can register as party members at the polls on primary election day. Otherwise, a voter must indicate his or her party preference (e.g., via an updated voter registration) no later than the 55th day preceding the primary in order to vote in that party's primary.[1][2]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
Candidates
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District 1
Democratic primary candidates
- Donald Norcross (Incumbent) ✔
District 2
Democratic primary candidates
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District 3
Democratic primary candidates
- Andrew Kim (Incumbent) ✔
District 4
Democratic primary candidates
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District 5
Democratic primary candidates
- Josh Gottheimer (Incumbent) ✔
- Arati Kreibich
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District 6
Democratic primary candidates
- Frank Pallone Jr. (Incumbent) ✔
- Amani Al-Khatahtbeh
- Russell Cirincione
Did not make the ballot:
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District 7
Democratic primary candidates
- Tom Malinowski (Incumbent) ✔
District 8
Democratic primary candidates
- Albio Sires (Incumbent) ✔
- Hector Oseguera
- Will Sheehan
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District 9
Democratic primary candidates
- Bill Pascrell (Incumbent) ✔
- Alp Basaran
- Zinovia Spezakis
Did not make the ballot:
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District 10
Democratic primary candidates
- Donald Payne Jr. (Incumbent) ✔
- John J. Flora
- Eugene Mazo
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District 11
Democratic primary candidates
- Mikie Sherrill (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 12
Democratic primary candidates
- Bonnie Watson Coleman (Incumbent) ✔
- Lisa McCormick
Pivot Counties
- See also: Pivot Counties by state
Two of 21 New Jersey counties—9.5 percent—are Pivot Counties. Pivot Counties are counties that voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012 and for Donald Trump (R) in 2016. Altogether, the nation had 206 Pivot Counties, with most being concentrated in upper midwestern and northeastern states.
| Counties won by Trump in 2016 and Obama in 2012 and 2008 | |||||||
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| County | Trump margin of victory in 2016 | Obama margin of victory in 2012 | Obama margin of victory in 2008 | ||||
| Gloucester County, New Jersey | 0.48% | 10.77% | 12.16% | ||||
| Salem County, New Jersey | 15.00% | 1.31% | 3.92% | ||||
In the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton (D) won New Jersey with 55.5 percent of the vote. Donald Trump (R) received 41.4 percent. In presidential elections between 1900 and 2016, New Jersey voted Democratic 46.67 percent of the time and Republican 53.33 percent of the time. In the five presidential elections between 2000 and 2016, New Jersey voted Democratic all five times.
See also
- United States House elections in New Jersey, 2020 (July 7 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2020
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2020
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2020
- United States House elections in New Jersey (June 5, 2018 Republican primaries)
- United States House elections in New Jersey (June 5, 2018 Democratic primaries)
Footnotes
