NEW JERSEY | 14
Electoral Votes |
Population
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau, NJ Division of Elections)
New Jersey has: 21 counties. Largest counties (nine more than 500,000): Bergen, Middlesex, Essex, Hudson, Monmouth. > Largest cities: Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Elizabeth. > Government
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State
of New Jersey Division of Elections Green
Party of NJ |
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Voting Eligible
Population*: 5,882,974. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 61.9%. Voter Registration Deadline: October 16, 2012 (21 days before election). |
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Overview:
Gov.
Chris
Christie 's praise of President Obama's
handling of Hurricane Sandy and tarmac appearance
with Obama
rubbed
many Republicans the wrong way. Hurricane Sandy
posed
challenges to election officials.
As with many non-battleground states, turnout was down
from 2008
(229,738 fewer votes cast in the presidential race, a
decrease of
5.9%). The Obama/Biden ticket won with a plurality
of 644,698
votes (17.72 percentage
points). Obama carried 12 counties to eight for
Romney (Cape May,
Hunterdon, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Somerset, Sussex,
and Warren) and
the vote in Salem County was tied. General Election Details Obama | (Romney) BALLOT [PDF] |
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Democrats
Barack Obama 283,673 votes. |
Republicans
50 Delegates: 3 RNC; 11 at-large; 36 by CD (3 x 12). 2.19% of the 2,286 Delegates. Official Results
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Voting Eligible
Population*:
5,844,477. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 66.2%. Total ballots cast 3,910,220 (a record) Total ballots rejected: 32,168 Registration: Dem. 1,782,556 (33.31%) Rep. 1,055,403 (19.72%) Unaffil. 2,511,367 (46.93%) Other Parties 2,189 (0.04%)... Total: 5,351,669. |
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2008
Overview New Jersey received limited attention (visits). The Obama/Biden ticket won with a plurality of 602,215 votes (15.57 percentage points). Obama carried 14 counties to 7 for McCain (Cape May, Hunterdon, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Sussex, and Warren). Obama/Allies | McCain/Allies | Nader |
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Voting Eligible
Population*: 5,663,201. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 63.8%. Total ballots cast: 3,638,153 Total ballots rejected: 24,017 Registration: Dem. 1,163,224 (23.24%) Rep. 884,801 (17.67%) Unaffil. 2,938,562 (58.70%) Ind. 18,077 (0.36%) Others 1,295 (0.03%)... Total: 5,005,959. |
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2004
Overview Despite the Democratic ticket's margin of 15.84 percentage points in 2000 and 17.86 percentage points in 1996, Republicans made an effort in New Jersey (transcript), and they did significantly cut the Democratic plurality to 241,427 votes (6.68 percentage points). General Election Details Kerry/Allies | Bush-Cheney '04 |
General Election -- Tuesday, November 7, 2000 |
Voting
Eligible Population*:
5,601,788. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 56.9% Total ballots cast: 3,219,650 Total ballots rejected: 9,037 Registration: Dem. 1,179,577 (25%) Rep. 876,386 (18%) Unaffil. 2,641,861 (56%) Ind. 12,944 (1%)... Total 4,710,768. |
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2000
Overview The Gore-Lieberman ticket won New Jersey with a plurality of 504,677 votes (15.84 percentage points), carrying 14 counties to 7 for Bush-Cheney (5 of which were in the northwest corner). Some Garden State Republicans believe a weak Bush state organization contributed to the poor showing and to down-ticket defeats. In the U.S. Senate race, Jon Corzine (D) outspent Bob Franks (R) by $54.0 million to $3.8 million and won by 50.1% to 47.1% (1,511,237 to 1,420,267). There were a couple of close House races: in the 12th Rep. Rush Holt (D) defeated former Rep. Dick Zimmer (R) by 651 votes (146,162 to 145,511); in the 7th Mike Ferguson (R) defeated Maryanne Connelly (D) by about 15,000 votes. General Election Actitivities |
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