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United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey, 2022
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2022 U.S. House Elections |
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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
General election candidates
- Donald Norcross (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Claire Gustafson (Republican Party)
- Allen Cannon (Cannon Fire)
- Patricia Kline (For the People)
- Isaiah Fletcher (Libertarian Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Donald Norcross (Incumbent) ✔
- Mario De Santis
Did not make the ballot:
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Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
District 2
General election candidates
- Jeff Van Drew (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Tim Alexander (Democratic Party)
- Michael Gallo (Libertarian Party)
- Anthony Parisi Sanchez (Not for Sale)
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- Jeff Van Drew (Incumbent) ✔
- John Barker
- Sean Pignatelli
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District 3
General election candidates
- Andrew Kim (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Bob Healey (Republican Party)
- Gregory Sobocinski (God Save America)
- Chris Russomanno (Libertarian Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Lawrence Hatez (Returning Your Rights!)
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- Andrew Kim (Incumbent) ✔
- Reuven Hendler
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District 4
General election candidates
- Chris Smith (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Matthew Jenkins (Democratic Party)
- Jason Cullen (Libertarian Party)
- Pam Daniels (Progress with Pam)
- David Schmidt (We the People)
- Hank Schroeder (Independent)
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- Chris Smith (Incumbent) ✔
- Mike Blasi (unofficially withdrew)
- Mike Crispi
- Steve Gray
Did not make the ballot:
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District 5
General election candidates
- Josh Gottheimer (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Frank Pallotta (Republican Party)
- Louis Vellucci (American Values)
- Jeremy Marcus (Libertarian Party)
- Trevor Ferrigno (Together We Stand)
Did not make the ballot:
- David Abrams (Stop Israel Boycotts)
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- Josh Gottheimer (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
- Nick De Gregorio
- Frank Pallotta ✔
- Fred Schneiderman (unofficially withdrew)
- Sab Skenderi
Did not make the ballot:
District 6
General election candidates
- Frank Pallone Jr. (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Susan Kiley (Republican Party)
- Tara Fisher (Libertarian Party)
- Eric Antisell (Move Everyone Forward)
- Inder Soni (New Jersey First)
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- Frank Pallone Jr. (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
District 7
General election candidates
- Tom Malinowski (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
- Thomas Kean Jr. (Republican Party) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
- Clayton Pajunas (Libertarian Party)
- Veronica Fernandez (Of, By, For!)
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- Tom Malinowski (Incumbent) ✔
- Roger Bacon
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District 8
General election candidates
- Robert Menendez Jr. (Democratic Party) ✔
- Marcos Arroyo (Republican Party)
- Pablo Olivera (Labour Party)
- Dan Delaney (Libertarian Party)
- David W. Cook (Other)
- Joanne Kuniansky (Socialist Workers Party)
- John Salierno (Truth and Merit)
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- Marcos Arroyo ✔
- Ana Rivera (Write-in)
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District 9
General election candidates
- Bill Pascrell (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Billy Prempeh (Republican Party)
- Sean Armstrong (Libertarian Party)
- Lea Sherman (Socialist Workers Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Bill Pascrell (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
District 10
General election candidates
- Donald Payne Jr. (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- David Pinckney (Republican Party)
- Cynthia Johnson (Jobs and Justice)
- Kendal Ludden (Libertarian Party)
- Clenard Childress Jr. (The Mahali Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Dorothy Jane Humphries (Together We Can)
Democratic primary candidates
- Donald Payne Jr. (Incumbent) ✔
- Akil Khalfani
- Imani Oakley
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District 11
General election candidates
- Mikie Sherrill (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Paul DeGroot (Republican Party)
- Joseph Biasco (Libertarian Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Kevin McCormick (Libertarian Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Mikie Sherrill (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
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District 12
General election candidates
- Bonnie Watson Coleman (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Darius Mayfield (Republican Party)
- C. Lynn Genrich (Libertarian Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Bonnie Watson Coleman (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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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:
- New Jersey's 1st Congressional District
- New Jersey's 2nd Congressional District
- New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District
- New Jersey's 4th Congressional District
- New Jersey's 5th Congressional District
- New Jersey's 6th Congressional District
- New Jersey's 7th Congressional District
- New Jersey's 8th Congressional District
- New Jersey's 9th Congressional District
- New Jersey's 10th Congressional District
- New Jersey's 11th Congressional District
- New Jersey's 12th Congressional District
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
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
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 | Phil Murphy
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| Lieutenant Governor | Sheila Oliver
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| Secretary of State | Tahesha Way
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| Attorney General | Matt Platkin
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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 |
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| 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
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 New Jersey Monitor, "Democrats, GOP agree on new legislative map for N.J.," February 18, 2022
- ↑ Insider NJ, "Redistricting Commission Finalizes Legislative Map by 9-2 Vote," February 18, 2022
