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New Jersey House race, District 8

Robert Menendez holds this seat but is not on the November ballot. Rob Menendez and Aristotle Eliopoulos are competing for it.

The November ballot

RobMenendezDemocrat

AristotleEliopoulosIndependent

General-election ballot as recorded August 27, 2026. Not a prediction.

The seat

Robert Menendez

Democrat · Holds the seat now

See their record

How to vote in New Jersey

General electionNovember 3, 2026In 10 weeks

All dates and rules

How they won the primary

Democratic primary

The primary · 41,439 votes

Rob MenendezWon68.8%28,509
Mussab Ali31.2%12,930

Primary results as recorded August 25, 2026, in the canvass's own published order. Via Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), which cites each state's canvass. A primary result is a filed fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.

The money on this race

Raised by candidates: $4.2M
Outside money: $913K

Who is spending on this race

The 4 groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.

Not on the November ballot

5 filed

Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.

The district

Census context

People: 764K
Median household income: $84K
Unemployment: 6.5%
Living below the poverty line: 15.6%
Without health insurance: 16.5%

U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.

How this seat voted last time

D+25 in 2024

Robert MenendezWon59.2%
Anthony Valdes34.6%

196,765 votes for candidates. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.

Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain; money figures carry their own coverage dates. Dataset built 2026-08-27. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.