New Jersey · U.S. Senate
NJ Class 2 Senate seat
Coverage: this seat is included in the 2026 national listing.
Candidate source
Candidate source: New Jersey Department of State, Division of Elections — Official List - Candidates for House of Representatives - For GENERAL ELECTION 11/03/2026 (retrieved 2026-09-28). Absence of a candidate row is never evidence that a race has no candidates.
How the candidate list was checked
Rows read from the official source: 39 · published here: 39 · left out by rule: 0 · held back for review: 0. House PDF totals line 'Total Candidates 35' across all 12 districts (01-12), all present; Senate PDF totals 'Total Candidates 4'. Senate contest in the 2026 NJ general confirms the Class II seat (Booker incumbent). House list is the 09/04/2026 amended consolidated official list; companion amended certifications exist for CD-07, CD-09, CD-10 and US Senate on the same index page. Senate rows carry senate_class=2 designation=regular: NJ is in the official Senate Class II registry (the state's only scheduled 2026 Senate race), so the seat identity is derived from the registry, not defaulted.
Boundaries and sources
County–district classifications come from official block-assignment files, cross-checked against Census representations; render geometry is display-only.
Current officeholder
The current officeholder has not been confirmed in this edition. This does not establish that the seat is vacant.
Upcoming contests
2026-11-03 — general
CORY BOOKER · Democratic
Qualified for the general-election ballot
JOANNE KUNIANSKY · SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY
Qualified for the general-election ballot
JUSTIN MURPHY · Republican
Qualified for the general-election ballot
VERONICA FERNANDEZ · END THE CORRUPTION!
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Polling
Not charted: no general-election polls in the source.
PrivateVoteHub Polls from the VoteHub Polling API, retrieved October 7, 2026, used under CC BY 4.0. How polls are chosen
Economic profile of the state this seat represents
FederalCensus Bureau American Community Survey 2020-2024 (5-year) · survey period 2020-2024 · State of New Jersey
- Median household income$103,556± $513
- Poverty rate9.7%± 0.2 ppPopulation for whom poverty status is determined
- Rent burden (30%+ of income on gross rent)51.6%± 0.5 ppRenter-occupied households paying cash rent for which rent burden is computed
- Homeownership rate63.8%± 0.3 ppOccupied housing units
- Bachelor's degree or higher (age 25+)43.6%± 0.2 ppPopulation 25 years and over
Technical definitions (ACS tables)
- Rent burden (30%+ of income on gross rent)
- Renter-occupied households paying cash rent for which rent burden is computed: B25070_001 minus B25070_011 (Not computed)
This seat's geography is exactly coterminous with its state (or the District), so the state estimates from the same edition apply directly.
Structural five-year survey conditions — not current monthly conditions. Uncertainties are 90% margins of error: the published ACS margin for median income; Census-formula approximations (ACS handbook ch. 8) for the rates. “Margin unavailable” means the source supplies no usable margin — never zero.
Campaign finances
2025-2026 two-year period (FEC cycle 2026). Committee totals are the FEC’s own candidate-level aggregation — never summed from committee rows here. Independent spending is reported separately and is never part of a candidate’s receipts. An FEC registration is not proof of ballot qualification; candidacy status comes verbatim from the accepted release.
General election · November 3, 2026
“No matching FEC candidate record” means no filing was located — it is never evidence that a candidacy does not exist, and never a ballot-status claim. Candidates’ coverage dates can differ; each row carries its own.
Current officeholder — Congress.gov context
Cory A. Booker · Democratic · New Jersey · served in 7 Congresses since 2013
Identity verified against the official Congress.gov member record (Bioguide B001288), recorded through 2026-10-04T02:54:23Z. Current officeholding is separate from 2026 candidacy status. Official member website.
Recent housing, employment, energy and infrastructure legislation
From the member's sponsored then cosponsored legislation lists (newest first, limit 30 each), the newest items whose CONFIRMED official legislative subjects intersect {Housing and Community Development, Labor and Employment, Energy, Transportation and Public Works, Water Resources Development} are selected, at most 3 sponsored and 2 cosponsored, 5 total. Items whose relevance cannot be confirmed via the official /subjects endpoint are omitted.
- S.3257-119 — John A. Hauser Mental Health in Aviation Actcosponsor latest action 2026-10-01: Held at the desk. · subjects: Transportation and Public Works
Sponsorship is a record of introduction or support — not passage, effectiveness, or economic impact.
Counties and this district
County boundaries for this seat are not published in this release. Explore individual counties on the county map.