New Jersey elections in 2026
14 electoral votes · 12 House seats · Mid-Atlantic · 1 statewide race on the 2026 ballot
New Jersey US Senate: D 61.0 to R 37.0, safe Democratic, well sourced. Incumbent Cory Booker faces Republican Justin Murphy in New Jersey Senate contest
House delegation as simulated: 9 D, 2 R, 1 tossup of 12 districts swept.
Model readings of live reporting, not polling. The full New Jersey board, with sourcing and the county map where one exists, is on the Midterms 2026 tab of the homepage.
How New Jersey votes
New Jersey is a dense suburban state between two great metros, with property taxes, transit and utility costs as constants of its politics. Democrats lead statewide, though margins have varied sharply cycle to cycle.
Its largest population centers include Newark, Jersey City, Trenton, Camden. Where a state's people live, and what those places do for a living, is the starting point for how Electorate HQ simulations reason about it.
On the ballot in New Jersey
Election day is November 3, 2026. New Jersey has 1 statewide race and 12 House seats on the ballot.
Statewide races
House districts
Every House seat is elected every two years. Each district below is listed with the counties inside it, computed from the current Census boundary files, wherever those files give a clean answer. Not sure which district is yours? Use the address lookup below.
- New Jersey 1st district: Camden, Gloucester Counties
- New Jersey 2nd district: Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, Salem Counties
- New Jersey 3rd district: Burlington, Mercer Counties
- New Jersey 4th district: Monmouth, Ocean Counties
- New Jersey 5th district: Bergen, Passaic, Sussex Counties
- New Jersey 6th district: entirely within Monmouth County
- New Jersey 7th district: Hunterdon, Somerset, Warren Counties
- New Jersey 8th district: entirely within Hudson County
- New Jersey 9th district: entirely within Passaic County
- New Jersey 10th district: Essex, Hudson, Union Counties
- New Jersey 11th district: Morris County
- New Jersey 12th district: Middlesex County
Find your exact districts
Your address goes to the U.S. Census Bureau's public geocoder to find your districts. It is not stored, and no AI sees it.
Which district am I in? New Jersey districts by county
House districts follow population, not county lines, so a single county can hold several districts and a single district can span many. Each county is listed under the district that holds its center, so if your county appears once above, that district holds most of it and is probably yours. If it appears under several, or if you live near a district line, use the address lookup for the exact answer.
Before you vote in New Jersey
Registration deadlines, early voting windows, mail ballot rules and identification requirements are all set at the state level and change between cycles, so the authoritative source is your own election office rather than any national site. The federal directory at vote.gov links to every state's registration system, and your county election office publishes the sample ballot that includes local contests.
The ballot section above covers the federal and statewide offices on the New Jersey ballot for November 3, 2026. Each statewide race links to a page with current coverage and an AI-generated simulation of the contest, always labeled as a simulation rather than a poll.
Local races
Local councils and commissions, school boards, judges, sheriffs and municipal offices are also on many New Jersey ballots, and they vary block by block. Your county election office publishes the authoritative local sample ballot.
New Jersey's weight in Washington
New Jersey carries 14 electoral votes, which ranks it 11 of 51 by that measure, and sends 12 voting members to the House.
That arithmetic is why the same national argument lands differently here than in a state of another size: a candidate courting New Jersey is competing for a specific share of the map, and the issues below are the ones that share actually turns on.
How New Jersey is represented
New Jersey is divided into 12 House districts, each drawn to hold roughly the same number of people, while its two Senate seats represent the state as a whole. A campaign here therefore runs two different arguments at once: a local one shaped by whichever district a voter lives in, and a statewide one that has to hold together across all 12.
Electoral votes follow the same arithmetic, House seats plus two, which is why New Jersey carries 14 in a presidential year and why small states carry proportionally more weight there than population alone would give them. The district list above shows every district on the 2026 ballot and the counties the boundary files place inside each one.
Latest New Jersey political headlines
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In the Electorate HQ simulator, New Jersey is one of 51 delegations that reads current reporting and decides a presidential race issue by issue. Results are AI simulations, clearly labeled, with the reasoning shown for every call. See the methodology for what that does and does not mean.
Analysis covering New Jersey
The 2026 Senate map covers 62% of the country and 70% of the states
Thirty-five of fifty states vote for Senate this year. Weighted by people rather than states the share drops, and that gap is the design of the chamber.
Twenty-six states elect a senator and a governor on the same day in 2026
The overlap between the Senate class and the gubernatorial cohort is a coincidence of two unrelated calendars, and it decides where money goes.
Election night is reported in 3,142 counties and decided in 435 districts
The unit America counts votes in and the unit America allocates House seats in are different shapes, and they do not nest inside each other.