United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, 2022

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U.S. House elections in New Jersey

Primary date
June 7, 2022

General election date
November 8, 2022

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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in New Jersey were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected 12 candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's 12 U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for June 7, 2022. The filing deadline was April 4, 2022.

Partisan breakdown

Members of the U.S. House from New Jersey -- Partisan Breakdown
Party As of November 2022 After the 2022 Election
     Democratic Party 10 9
     Republican Party 2 3
Total 12 12

Candidates

District 1

See also: New Jersey's 1st Congressional District election, 2022

General election candidates

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Republican Party Republican primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:

District 2

See also: New Jersey's 2nd Congressional District election, 2022

General election candidates


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Republican Party Republican primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey

District 3

See also: New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District election, 2022

General election candidates


Did not make the ballot:


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Republican Party Republican primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey

District 4

See also: New Jersey's 4th Congressional District election, 2022

General election candidates


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Republican Party Republican primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey

District 5

See also: New Jersey's 5th Congressional District election, 2022

General election candidates


Did not make the ballot:


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates

Republican Party Republican primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:

District 6

See also: New Jersey's 6th Congressional District election, 2022

General election candidates


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:

Republican Party Republican primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:

District 7

See also: New Jersey's 7th Congressional District election, 2022

General election candidates


Did not make the ballot:


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Republican Party Republican primary candidates


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey

District 8

See also: New Jersey's 8th Congressional District election, 2022

General election candidates


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Republican Party Republican primary candidates


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey

District 9

See also: New Jersey's 9th Congressional District election, 2022

General election candidates

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

District 10

See also: New Jersey's 10th Congressional District election, 2022

General election candidates


Did not make the ballot:

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Republican Party Republican primary candidates

District 11

See also: New Jersey's 11th Congressional District election, 2022

General election candidates


Did not make the ballot:

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates

Republican Party Republican primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey

District 12

See also: New Jersey's 12th Congressional District election, 2022

General election candidates

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates

Republican Party Republican primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:


Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey


General election race ratings

See also: Race rating definitions and methods

Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:

  • Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
  • Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
  • Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
  • Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.

Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]

Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:

Ballot access

For information on candidate ballot access requirements in New Jersey, click here.

Election analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

  • District maps - A map of the state's districts before and after redistricting.
  • Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2022 U.S. House elections in the state.
  • Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
  • State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

District map

Below were the district maps in use at the time of the election, enacted as part of the 2020 redistricting cycle, compared to the maps in place before the election.

New Jersey Congressional Districts
until January 2, 2023

Click a district to compare boundaries.

New Jersey Congressional Districts
starting January 3, 2023

Click a district to compare boundaries.

Competitiveness

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2022

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in New Jersey.

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in New Jersey in 2022. Information below was calculated on May 16, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Fifty-five candidates filed to run for New Jersey’s 12 U.S. House districts, including 20 Democrats and 35 Republicans. That’s 4.58 candidates per district, more than the 4.17 candidates per district in 2020 and the 4.08 in 2018. This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. New Jersey was apportioned 12 districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census.

The 55 candidates that ran in 2022 are the highest number of House candidates since at least 2014, the earliest year for which we have data.

Rep. Albio Sires (D) did not file for re-election, making the 8th district the only open seat this year. That’s one more than in 2020, when there were no open seats, and one less than in 2018, when the 2nd and the 11th districts were open. Nine candidates — seven Republicans and two Democrats, including incumbent Rep. Tom Malinowski (D) — filed to run in the 7th district, the most running for one seat this year. That’s two more than in 2020, when seven candidates ran in the 2nd district, and one less than in 2018, when 10 candidates ran in the 11th district.

There were six contested Democratic primaries this year, the lowest number since 2016, and 10 contested Republican primaries, the most since at least 2014. Five incumbents — all Democrats — did not face any primary challengers this year. That’s one more than in 2020, when four incumbents did not face any primary challengers.

Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all 12 districts, so no seats were guaranteed to either party this year.

Presidential elections

See also: Presidential election in New Jersey, 2020 and The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

As a result of redistricting following the 2020 census, many district boundaries changed. As a result, analysis of the presidential vote in each of these new districts is not yet available. Once that analysis is available, it will be published here.

New Jersey presidential election results (1900-2020)

  • 15 Democratic wins
  • 16 Republican wins
Year 1900 1904 1908 1912 1916 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1940 1944 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
Winning Party R R R D R R R R D D D D R R R D D R R R R R R D D D D D D D D


State party control

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of New Jersey's congressional delegation as of November 2022.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from New Jersey, November 2022
Party U.S. Senate U.S. House Total
Democratic 2 10 12
Republican 0 2 2
Independent 0 0 0
Vacancies 0 0 0
Total 2 12 14

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in New Jersey's top four state executive offices as of November 2022.

State executive officials in New Jersey, November 2022
Office Officeholder
Governor Democratic Party Phil Murphy
Lieutenant Governor Democratic Party Sheila Oliver
Secretary of State Democratic Party Tahesha Way
Attorney General Democratic Party Matt Platkin

State legislature

The tables below highlight the partisan composition of the New Jersey State Legislature as of November 2022.

New Jersey State Senate

Party As of November 2022
     Democratic Party 24
     Republican Party 16
     Vacancies 0
Total 40

New Jersey General Assembly

Party As of November 2022
     Democratic Party 46
     Republican Party 34
     Vacancies 0
Total 80

Trifecta control

As of November 2022, New Jersey was a Democratic trifecta, with majorities in both chambers of the state legislature and control of the governorship. The table below displays the historical trifecta status of the state.

New Jersey Party Control: 1992-2022
Eleven years of Democratic trifectas  •  Eight years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Governor D D R R R R R R R R D D D D D D D D R R R R R R R R D D D D D
Senate R R R R R R R R R R S S D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
Assembly R R R R R R R R R R D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D

Redistricting following the 2020 census

On February 18, 2022, the New Jersey Legislative Reapportionment Commission voted to approve a new set of state legislative maps.[5] The commission voted 9-2 to approve the maps. Thomas Kean Jr. (R) and Cosmo A. Cirillo (D) were the two dissenting votes.[6] The New Jersey Monitor's Nikita Biryukov wrote that the vote was "an unprecedented compromise for a commission that has historically relied on a court-appointed tiebreaker to end partisan gridlock."[5]


See also

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Footnotes

  1. Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
  2. Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
  3. Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
  4. Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
  5. 5.0 5.1 New Jersey Monitor, "Democrats, GOP agree on new legislative map for N.J.," February 18, 2022
  6. Insider NJ, "Redistricting Commission Finalizes Legislative Map by 9-2 Vote," February 18, 2022


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