Democratic presidential vote share

52.0%

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Governor

Mikie Sherrill (D)

National Governors Association

Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections

53.6%

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

U.S. House seats apportioned to New Jersey

2020 · U.S. Census Bureau

Total votes cast for president

4,272,725

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Statehouse

Democratic majority

Election Results

Recent presidential votes.

Democratic presidential vote share

52.0%

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Republican presidential vote share

46.1%

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

2024 winner

Democrat

2024 margin

+5.9 pts

2020 margin

+15.9 pts (D)

Democratic presidential vote share

1976–2024

52%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).

Republican presidential vote share

1976–2024

46.1%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).

Indicator	New Jersey	U.S.
2024 Republican margin (pts)	-5.9	1.5

•New Jersey has voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1992.

Governors

State executive.

Governor

Mikie Sherrill (D)

National Governors Association

In office since

2026

National Governors Association

Governors listed

1776–present · National Governors Association

Term limit

2 consecutive terms

Election years

Odd years (2025, 2029)

Governors of New Jersey

Governor	Party	In office
Mikie Sherrill	Democratic	2026–present
Christopher Christie	Republican	2010–2018
Jon Corzine	Democratic	2006–2010
James E. McGreevey	Democratic	2002–2004
Richard J. Codey	Democratic	2002–2002
John O. Bennett	Republican	2002–2002
Donald T. DiFrancesco	Republican	2001–2002
Christine Todd Whitman	Republican	1994–2001
Jim Florio	Democratic	1990–1994
Thomas H. Kean	Republican	1982–1990
Brendan Thomas Byrne	Democratic	1974–1982
William T. Cahill	Republican	1970–1974
Richard Joseph Hughes	Democratic	1962–1970
Robert Baumie Meyner	Democratic	1954–1962
Alfred Eastlack Driscoll	Republican	1947–1954
Charles Edison	Democratic	1941–1944
Harold Giles Hoffman	Republican	1935–1938
Horace Griggs Prall	Republican	1935–1935
Morgan Foster Larson	Republican	1929–1932
George Sebastian Silzer	Democratic	1923–1926
Edward Irving Edwards	Democratic	1920–1923
Clarence Edwards Case	Republican	1920–1920
William Nelson Runyon	Republican	1919–1920
Leon R. Taylor	Democratic	1913–1914
Thomas Woodrow Wilson	Democratic	1911–1913
John Franklin Fort	Republican	1908–1911
Edward Casper Stokes	Republican	1905–1908
Franklin Murphy	Republican	1902–1905
David Ogden Watkins	Republican	1898–1899
John William Griggs	Republican	1896–1898
George Theodore Werts	Democratic	1893–1896
Robert Stockton Green	Democratic	1887–1890
George Craig Ludlow	Democratic	1881–1884
George Brinton McClellan	Democratic	1878–1881
Joseph Dorsett Bedle	Democratic	1875–1878
Theodore Fitz Randolph	Democratic	1869–1872
Marcus Lawrence Ward	Republican	1866–1869
Charles Smith Olden	Republican	1860–1863
William Augustus Newell	Republican	1857–1860
Rodman M. Price	Democratic	1854–1857
George Franklin Fort	Democratic	1851–1854
Charles Creighton Stratton	Whig	1845–1848
Daniel Haines	Democratic	1843–1845
William Pennington	Republican	1837–1843
Philemon Dickerson	Democratic	1836–1837
Elias Pettit Seeley	Whig	1833–1833
Samuel Lewis Southard	Whig	1832–1833
Issac Halsted Williamson	Democratic	1817–1829
Mahlon Dickerson	Democratic-Republican	1815–1817
William Sanford Pennington	Republican	1813–1815
Aaron Ogden	Federalist	1812–1813
John Lambert	Democratic-Republican	1802–1803
Richard Howell	Federalist	1793–1801
Thomas Henderson	Federalist	1793–1793
William Paterson	Federalist	1790–1793
William Livingston	Federalist	1776–1790

Source: National Governors Association, current and former governors.

Indicator	New Jersey	U.S.
Years of Democratic control	16	0

•New Jersey elects its governor in odd-numbered years, one of only two states to do so.

Senators

U.S. Senate delegation.

Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections

53.6%

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Republican vote share, U.S. Senate elections

44.0%

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Senate seats

Composition

2 Democrats

Notable

Andy Kim won the 2024 seat

Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections

1976–2024

53.6%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse). Regular-term races; special elections only when no regular race was held. Independents (e.g. caucusing with Democrats) are not counted as Democratic; years without a Democratic nominee are omitted.

Republican vote share, U.S. Senate elections

1976–2024

44%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).

Indicator	New Jersey	U.S.
U.S. Senate seats	2	100

•Andy Kim became the first Korean American elected to the U.S. Senate in 2024.

Representatives

U.S. House delegation.

U.S. House seats apportioned to New Jersey

2020 · U.S. Census Bureau

House seats

Republicans

Democrats

U.S. House seats apportioned to New Jersey

1910–2020

12▲ 0%

U.S. Census Bureau, decennial apportionment counts.

Indicator	New Jersey	U.S.
U.S. House seats	12	435

•New Jersey has held 12 House seats since the 2010 census.

Voting Trends

Turnout and participation.

Total votes cast for president

4,272,725

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Total votes cast for president

1976–2024

4,272,725▲ 42%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).

Indicator	New Jersey	U.S.
Voter turnout (%)	69	64

•New Jersey adopted in-person early voting statewide in 2021.

Party Distribution

Partisan balance.

Statehouse

Democratic majority

Suburban shift

Competitive

•Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by roughly a million voters.

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