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New Jersey races

New Jersey votes on a Senate seat and all 12 House seats this cycle.

New Jersey races to watch

The delegation, district by district

13 seats on the ballot
9 Democratic3 Republican2 not running again

House seats, filled by the party that holds each one today.

Party of the member holding each seat now, never a margin and never a prediction. A hatched district means that member is not on the ballot for it. Boundaries as drawn for the 119th Congress.

How to vote in New Jersey

  • General electionNovember 3, 2026In 10 weeks

Register 21 days before the election.

All dates and rules

New Jersey by the numbers

9.3Mpeople across 12 districts

Median household income$73K to $137K
District 10District 11
Living below the poverty line4.8% to 16.4%
District 7District 10
Without health insurance3.7% to 16.5%
District 7District 8

The lowest and highest of New Jersey's districts, on the national range for each measure. Census American Community Survey 2024 five year estimates.

What this ballot costs

$101M in play

Of every dollar in New Jersey's federal races, 12 cents is outside groups spending on their own, not the campaigns. The Senate seat and the whole House map are on one scale.

Raised by candidatesOutside money
$34M raised by candidates$144 outside money
All 12 House races$67M
$54M raised by candidates$13M outside money$5.6M a seat on average

Gifts of $200 or less

$19M22%

Larger individual gifts

$40M45%

From PACs

$10M12%

Shares of what the campaigns raised themselves. The rest is party money, self funding and transfers.

Incumbents defending a seat

Who is spending on New Jersey

$13M outside money

The groups spending independently on New Jersey's races, by what they have filed. Open a row to see how the money was spent, supporting or opposing each party, and the interest behind the committee.

1 to 5 of 25 groups

How far the money traveled

Most of the outside money on New Jersey's races comes from groups that are spending in other states too.

Groups spending in other states too
$10M82%
Groups spending only in New Jersey
$2.3M18%

Groups filing here

40

The widest one reaches

26states

Independent spending filed on New Jersey's races, by whether the committee is also spending in other states this cycle. A filing records where a group spends, not where its donors live, so this is a measure of reach, never of who paid for it.

Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Census context from the American Community Survey, public domain. Dataset built 2026-08-27. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.