Democratic Primaries In 7th And 12th Districts Fuel Surge In New N.J. Party Registrations
New Jersey added 9,598 new registered voters in June, with Democratic registrations exceeding Republican registrations by a 3-1 margin, following the New Jersey Division of Elections’ first official snapshot of the electorate, which showed thousands of previously unaffiliated voters registering with a political party to cast ballots in New Jersey’s closed primary elections.
That puts the Democratic registration edge at 854,859 – less than the 1 million-voter advantage Democrats first claimed in June 2020 and later lost in mid-2023, but still a significant number.
The state now has 6,697,965 registered voters, up from 6,654,619 on January 1, an increase of a little more than one-half of one percent. New Jersey has 2,531,674 Democrats, 1,687,440 Republicans, and 2,569,753 unaffiliated voters; the remaining 1% are members of minor political parties, including two that have been defunct for over two decades.
The overall partisan balance shifted modestly. Democrats now account for 38.4% of New Jersey’s registered voters, up from 38.0% before the primary; Republicans hold 25.2%, up from 25.1%; and unaffiliated voters fell to 35.3%, down from 35.8%.
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