United States House elections in New Jersey, 2020 (July 7 Republican 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 Republican primaries that took place in New Jersey on July 7, 2020.
Click here for more information about the Democratic 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
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
District 2
Republican primary candidates
- Jeff Van Drew (Incumbent) ✔
- Bob Patterson
Did not make the ballot:
District 3
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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District 4
Republican primary candidates
- Chris Smith (Incumbent) ✔
- Alter Eliezer Richter
District 5
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 6
Republican primary candidates
- Sammy Gindi (Write-in)
- Christian Onuoha (Write-in) ✔
District 7
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 8
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 9
Republican primary candidates
- Billy Prempeh ✔
- Timothy Walsh (unofficially withdrew)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 10
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
District 11
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
District 12
Republican primary candidates
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.
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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 Democratic primaries)
- United States House Republican 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)
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