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Official 2024 General Election Results
New Jersey is represented in the United States Congress by two Senators and twelve Representatives. The delegation includes: Senators:
House of Representatives: New Jersey has twelve congressional districts, with each district represented by a member of the House of Representatives. The composition in 2025 is 9 Democrats and 3 Republicans. On average, each congressional district in New Jersey represents about 774,083 people based on the 2020 Census data. New Jersey ranks 11th among all states in terms of the number of congressional districts it has. Senate
Cory A. Booker (Democrat) 359 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510 (202) 224-3224 e-mail contact % vote 2024 election: 57.2% Committees: Foreign Relations; Judiciary; Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry; Small Business & Entrepreneurship (ranking member on three subcommittees: Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, & Consumer Rights,Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa & Global Health Policy, and Agriculture Subcommittee on Commodities, Derivatives, Risk Management, and Trade) NJ District Offices: One Port Center 2 Riverside Drive, Suite 505 Camden, NJ 08101 (856) 338-8922 One Gateway Center 23rd Floor Newark, NJ 07102 (973) 639-8700 Senator since 2013, first African-American U.S. senator from New Jersey. Previously 38th mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013, also served on tMunicipal Council of Newark for the Central Ward from 1998 to 2002. Born in Washington, D.C.,, raised in Harrington Park. Stanford University BA in 1991 and master's degree a year later, attended Queen's College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship before attending Yale Law School. First ran for mayor in 2002 but lost to incumbent Sharpe James, ran again in 2006 and defeated Deputy Mayor Ronald Rice. Elected to U.S. Senate in a 2013 special election and reelected in 2014 and in 2020. First senator to ever testify against another senator during attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions's 2017 confirmation hearing. Candidate for tDemocratic nomination in 2020 presidential election, suspending his campaign on January 13, 2020. Became NJ's senior senator when Bob Menendez resigned on August 20, 2024 while facing trial on corruption charges.
Andy Kim (Democrat)
Dirksen Senate Office Building Suite B-40D Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-4744 Contact NJ District Offices: 210 Hudson Street Harborside 3, Suite 1000 Jersey City, NJ 07311 (973) 645-3030 208 White Horse Pike Suite 18 Barrington, NJ 08007 (856) 757-5353 Committees: Housing, & Urban Affairs; Commerce, Science, & Transportation; Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions; Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs; Special Committee on Aging (ranking member on Homeland Security’s Disaster Management, District of Columbia, & Census Subcommittee and Banking’s National Security & International Trade and Finance Subcommittee) Appointed on December 18, 2024, to succeed George Helmy, who had been appointed by Governor Murphy to fill remaining term of Senator Robert Menendez upon resignation by Menendez effective August 20, 1974 following conviction on corruption charges on July 16, 2024. Kim elected to full Senate term in November 2024 election with 55% of the vote over Republican Curtis Bashaw. Served from 2019 to 2024 as the U.S. Representative from New Jersey's 3rd congressional district along southern and central New Jersey. Born in Boston and raised in Cherry Hill, studied political science at the University of Chicago before attending Magdalen College, Oxford. Shortly afterward, worked as a civilian advisor at the Department of State, serving in Afghanistan under the Obama administration. Inspired to run against Representative Tom MacArthur due to MacArthur's efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Kim defeated him in a close election in 2018. The first Democratic Congressman of Korean descent, served three terms in the House before appointment to Senate seat. House of Representatives District 1 (parts of Camden, Burlington and Gloucester counties)
Donald Norcross (Democrat) 1531 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515 (202) 225-6501 Contact NJ District Office: 10 Melrose Avenue, Suite 210 Cherry Hill, NJ 08003 (856) 427-7000 % vote 2022 election: 62.27% Committees: Armed Services; Education and the Workforce (ranking member on the Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air & Land Forces) NJ District Office: 10 Melrose Avenue, Suite 210 Cherry Hill, NJ 08003 (856) 427-7000 District 2 (all of Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Salem and parts of Ocean, Camden and Gloucester counties) Jefferson Van Drew (Republican) 331 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 (202) 225-6572 Contact % vote 2022 election: 58.85% NJ District Office: 5914 Main Street Suite 103 Mays Landing, NJ 08330 (609) 625-5008 Committees: Judiciary: (chair of Oversight Subcommittee) Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Former Democrat while serving in NJ Senate and Assembly and when first elected to House after opposing Trump impeachment swtiched parties December 2019 to become Republican and became leading supporter of Donald Trump. Before getting elected to Congress, previously served three terms in Assembly and four terms in NJ State Senate. Before being elected to Congress IN 2018, held several public offices, including fire commissioner, town committee member, Mayor of Dennis Township, and Cape May County Freeholder. Represented New Jersey's 1st legislative district in Assembly from 2002 to 2008, and represented same district in state Senate from 2008 to 2018. Democratic nominee in 2nd congressional district in t 2018 election, won with 52.9% of the vote. After opposing first impeachment of Donald Trump, joined Republican Party shortly afterward, reelected in 2020, defeating Democratic challenger Amy Kennedy. Van Drew later supported the unsuccessful attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. B.S. degree from Rutgers University and dentistry degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University, retired from dentistry practice after 30 years in South Jersey, resides in Dennis Township.
District 3 (parts of Burlington, Mercer, and Monmouth Counties). Herb Conaway, MD (Democrat) 1022 Longworth House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 (202) 225-4765 Contact Committees: Small Business (Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access); Veterans' Affairs (Vice Ranking Member; Subcommittee on Health) Sworn in to House to replace Andy Kim upon Kim's appointment to Senate, elected to first term November 2024. Lfelong resident of Burlington County son of a teacher and a nurse. Undergraduate degree from Princeton University, medical degree from Jefferson Medical College and law degree from Rutgers Law School in Camden. Served in U.S. Air Force, rose to rank of Captain in the Medical Corps at McGuire Air Force Base. For 27 years, served in NJ 7th Legislative District as Assemblyman. chaired Health Committee and served on Budget Committee and Military and Veterans Affairs Committee.. District 4 (parts of Mercer, Monmouth and Ocean counties)
Chris Smith (Republican) 2373 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515 (202) 225-3765 Contact % vote 2022 election: 66.92% Committee: Foreign Affairs NJ District Offices: 33 Washington Street P.O. Box 728 Toms River, NJ 08754 (732) 504-0567 1715 Highway 35 North, Suite 303 Middletown, NJ 07748 (732) 780-3035 Elected in 1980 in upset in former heavily Democratic district which included Trenton, currently in 23rd, two-year term in House of Representatives, a leading anti-abortion advocate. Serves as a senior member on the Foreign Affairs Committee and as Chairman of its Africa Subcommittee, previously served as Chair and highest-ranking House member of the bipartisan House/Senate Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (or Helsinki Commission) serving as chairman five times, and has served as Chairman of the Veterans Committee (two terms), and chaired tForeign Affairs’ past subcommittees on human rights, international operations and organizations, and global health.
District 5 (parts of Bergen, Passaic, Sussex and Warren counties) Josh Gottheimer (Democrat) 106 Cannon House Office Building Building Washington DC 20515 (202) 225-4465 Contact % vote 2022 election: 54.73% Committees: Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence( (ranking Member of National Security Agency and Cyber Subcommittee, member of National Intelligence Enterprise Subcommittee. Financial Services Committee (member of Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions, Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion, and Subcommittee on Capital Markets). NJ District Offices: 65 Central Avenue Hackensack, NJ 07601 (973) 814-4076 21-00 NJ 208 South Fair Lawn, NJ 07410 (201) 309-8900 309 Main Street 2nd Floor Fort Lee, NJ 07024 (973) 814-4076 2/10 N Van Brunt Street Englewood, NJ 07631 (073) 814-4076 District in northernmost part of state, tretches from George Washington Bridge in east to Pennsylvania border in west, with NY border to north. Candidate in June 2025 gubrnatorial primary. First elected to House in 2016, defeated seven-term incumbent Republican Scott Garrett, won election with strong showing in Bergen County where he won by 14% while losing Sussex, Warren, and Passaic counties. Speechwriter at age 23 for President Clinton, served as an adviser to presidential campaigns of Wesley Clark, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton. Prior to election to House, worked for Burson Cohn & Wolfe, Federal Communications Commission, Ford Motor Company, and Microsoft. Bborn in Livingston, 1997 graduate of University of Pennsylvania, president of Interfraternity Council, and a University Scholar. While at Penn, served on "rapid response team" for Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign, after Clinton's reelection, attended Pembroke College, Oxford, in 2004 graduated from Harvard Law School District 6 (parts of Middlesex and Monmouth counties) Frank Pallone Jr. (Democrat) 237 Cannon House Office Building Washington DC 20515 (202) 225-4671 Contact % vote 2022 election: 57.45% Committee: Energy and Commerce (ranking Democrat) NJ District Offices: 67/69 Church Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (732) 249-8892 504 Broadway Long Branch, NJ 07740 (732) 571-1140 District includes New Brunswick, Asbury Park, and Perth Amboy. and Rutgers and Monmouth University. Now in 18th term. first elected 1988 from former Third District, which included parts of Monmouth and Ocean counties, after dedisticing in 1992, elected to represent Sixth District that included large portions of Middlesex and Monmouth Counties. Top Democrat on Energy and Commerce Committee, Committee's jurisdiction includes health care, energy, environment, commerce, food and drug safety, consumer protection, and communications and technology. In 2010, as Chairman of Subcommittee on Health, Pallone played a key role in authoring and passing Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Also active supporter of Biden Administartion Innflation Reduction Act and infrastructure renewal. Began political career in Long Branch, where he was born and still resides, elected to Long Branch City Council in 1982, in 1983 elected to state Senate, re-elected in 1987. Graduate of Middlebury College, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and Rutgers School of Law–Camden.
District 7 (all of Hunterdon, parts of Morris, Somerset, Union and Warren counties) Thomas H. Kean, Jr. (Republican) 221 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 (202) 225-5361 Committees: Energy and Commerce Foreign Affairs % vote 2022 election: 51.8% NJ District Office: 75 Claremont Road, Suite 206 Bernardsville, NJ 07924, 908-547-3307 Serving second term in Congress, re-elected in 2024 in what was considered one of most competitive races in US. Son of former Governor (1982-90) Thomas H. Kean. Commenced public service when appointed by President George H.W. Bush to work in Environmental Protection Agency, where he met wife, Rhonda. Following Bush administration, a legislative staffer in NJ Congressman Bob Franks’ Washington, D.C. office. In 2001, elected to NJ General Assembly, later elected to state Senate, served 14 years as Republican Leader. Graduate of Dartmouth College and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University with master’s degree in law and diplomacy, completed his doctoral studies at Fletcher. Resides with wife Rhonda and their two daughters in Westfield,.
District 8 (parts of Union, Essex, Hudson and Bergen counties) Rob Menendez (Democrat) 1007 Longworth House Office Building, Washington DC 20515 (202) 225-7919 Contact % vote 2022 election: 73.62% NJ District Office: 257 Cornelison Avenue Suite 4408 Jersey City, NJ 07302 (201) 309-0301 |
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Re-elected to seecond term in 2024, first elected 2022 to seat formerly held by his father Robert Menendez, Sr., with father's active support. 2024 election took place in context of federal indictment of Menendez’s father, then Senator, on multiple charges of bridery and corruption, after resigning Senate seat, father subsequuently convicted and sentenced to 11 years in prison. Menendez Jr. withstood June 2024 Democratic primary challenge from Hoboken Mayor Ravinder Bhalla Prior to election to House, served as a Commissioner of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and attorney at law firm of Lowenstein Sandler, also worked with Lowenstein Sandler Center for the Public Interest to serve clients in need of pro bono representation.
Graduate of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Rutgers Law School. Resides in Jersey City with wife, Alex, and their two children, Olivia and Robert. District 9 (parts of Passaic, Hudson and Bergen counties) Nellie Pou (Democrat) 1007 Longworth House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 (202) 225-5751 Contact NJ District Office: 100 Hamilton Plaza Suite 1400 Paterson, NJ 07505 (973) 523-5152 District heavily Latino and Hispanic, making up more than 40% of population. Represented by Democrat Bill Pascrell from 1996 until his death at age 87 in August 2024, Traditionally strong Democratic district, but shifted to right in 2024 election, narrowly voting for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after having previously voted for Democrat Joe Biden over Trump by 19 points in 2020. Democratic congressional candidate, Nellie Pou, won by 5 points over Republican Billy Prempeh, much narrower margin than previous congressional races. Pou first Latina to represent NJ in Congress, Pou served in state Legislature since 1997 where she also succeeded Pascrell after he left Assembly to serve in Congress. Pou elected to state Senate in 2012, where she served as majority caucus chair, chaired commerce committee and as vice-chair of the judiciary committee. Born and raised in Paterson to parents who moved from Puerto Rico in 1953, attended Paterson Public Schools and, until recently, worked several different public jobs in Paterson.
District 10 (parts of Essex, Hudson and Union counties)
LaMonica McIver (Democrat) 426 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 (202) 225-3436 NJ Distruct Office: 60 Nelson Place 14th Floor, LeRoy F. Smith, Jr. Public Safety Building Newark, NJ 07102 (973) 645-3213 Contact Committees: Small Business; Homeland Security Elected to first term November 2024, succeeded Donald Payne Jr., who died in office in April 2024. First Black woman to represent District, and youngest ever to be elected to House of Representatives from NJ, sworn into Congress on September 23, 2024. In 2018,elected as youngest woman ever to Newark City Council where she served for six years, three as council president. Born and raised in Newark’s Central Ward, where she still resides with husband and daughter. Received degree in English Literature from Bloomfield College and master’s degree in educational leadership and policy from Seton Hall University, later personnel director for Montclair Public Schools, and human resources positions at Newark Public Schools, also served as public affairs manager for PSE&G utility. In 2012, founded Newark G.A.L.S., Inc., a nonprofit devoted to nurturing future female leaders.
District 11 (parts of Morris, Essex, and Passaic counties)
Mikie Sherrill (Democrat) 1427 Longworth House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 (202) 225-5034 Contact NJ District Office: 357 S. Livingston Avenue Suite 201 Livingston, NJ 07039 (973) 526-5668 Committees: Armed Services; Science, Space and Technology % vote 2024 election: 56.4% % vote 2022 election: 58.99% Serving as representative for 11th congressional district since 2019, candidate for governor in June 2025 Democratic primary election..Fformer U.S. Navy helicopter pilot, attorney, and former federal prosecutor Born in Alexandria, Virginia, grew up in various locations along East Coast due to her father's job, graduate of South Lakes High School in Reston, Virginia In 1994, B.S. degree from US Naval Academy in Annapolis, also l received MSc in international and world history from London School of Economics, in 2004, received certificate in Arabic language from American University in Cairo, in 2007 earned Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center.
As Navy helicopter pilot for nine years, flew missions throughout Europe and in Middle East, left Navy in 2003. After graduation from Georgetown University Law Center,attorney at Kirkland & Ellis' law firm's New York City office, where she worked in litigation department from 2008 to 2011. After leaving Kirkland & Ellis, joined US Attorneys' Office as outreach and reentry coordinator, 2015 became assistant US Attorney for District of NJ, left that office in 2016. 2017 launched campaign for 11th district House seat which had been held by 12-term Republican incumbent Rodney Frelinghuysen, who in January 2018 announced he would not seek reelection. District long considered safely Republican but redistricting strengthened Democratic votes by extending it further into Essex County, including section of Montclair around Sherrill's home. In June 2018, won Democratic primary with 77% of the vote, in November defeated Republican Jay Webber with 56.8% of the vote. First Democrat to win this seat since 16-term incumbent Joseph Minish was defeated in 1984 after district had been redrawn to be more Republican. Married to Jason Hedberg, fellow classmate and graduate of US Naval Academy who served as a Navy intelligence officer. Couple has lived in Montclair with their four children since 2010. District 12 (parts of Mercer, Middlesex and Union counties)
Bonnie Watson Coleman (Democrat) 1535 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515 (202) 225-5801 contact % vote 2022 election: 63.07% Committees: Homeland Security; Oversight and Government NJ District Office: 850 Bear Tavern Road Suite 201 Ewing, NJ 08628 (609) 883-0026 Representative for 12th congressional district since 2015, first African-American woman to represent NJ in House of Representatives. . Previously served in NJ General Assembly from 1998 to 2015 Born in Camden, attended Rutgers University before receiving B.A. from Thomas Edison State College in 1985. Began career in NJ state government, working for Division on Civil Rights and later serving as director of Office of Civil Rights, Contract Compliance and Affirmative Action in the Department of Transportation. In General Assembly, she served as Majority Leader from 2006 to 2010.In 2014, ran for House seat previously held by retiring Representative Rush Holt. Mmember of Congressional Progressive Caucus and Congressional Black Caucus, among others, co-founded Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls in 2016, as well as the America 250 Caucus to help plan activities for America's semiquincentennial commemoration in 2026. |
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