Washington (AP) Fast A dozen candidates will compete in New Jersey on Tuesday to have the chance to follow the restricted democratic governor Phil Murphy. Voters will also select candidates for the State General Assembly.
New Jersey is one of only two states, together with Virginia, with a governor race on the ballot this year. Historically speaking, the presidential policy has occupied a long shadow over the two competitions, with the party of the President often lost one or both seats. Although the Democrats have dominated New Jersey’s Germans and the state legislature for a long time, the governor has regularly changed most major political parties for most of the last century. The last time a party held the governor for more than two consecutive terms, was 1961.
The race for democratic nomination of the governor offers an overcrowded field of prominent current and former official: US representative.
Gotheimer had a slight advantage in the collection of donations with around 9.1 million US dollars in contributions, followed by Sherrill and Fulop, each of which was collected for their campaigns.
Immigration was an significant problem in the campaign. In May, the state’s supreme public prosecutor dropped an attack against Baraka, which was arrested at the beginning of the month in a protest outside a recent federal immigration authority.
In the Republican elementary school, former state assembly man Jack Ciattarelli makes his third attempt for the highest office of the state. He had a robust representation as a republican candidate in 2021 against Murphy, who occurred within around 3 percentage points to discess the democratic incumbent. He also ran in 2017, but lost the nomination to the LT at that time. Governor Kim Guadagno.
The Republican nomination on Tuesday is also looking for Senator Jon Bramnick, the former mayor of Englewood Cliffs, Mario Kranjac, the radio presenter Bill Spadea and the general contractor Justin Barbera.
President Donald Trump was a key figure in primary school because he has been in other GOP competitions all over the country in recent years. He supported Ciattarelli in May and fought for him on Monday in a virtual rally, although the candidate said in 2015 that he was not acting as president. Bramnick is the only current Trump critic in this year’s GOP primary field.
The most populous counties in the state – Mountains, Middlesex, Essex and Hudson – usually play a greater role in democratic primary elections than in republican prim. For example, Essex County, in which the strongly democratic Newark at home is located, had the greatest turnout in the last competitive primary school for the governor in 2017, but in 2021 the top -15 counties in the last competitive republican primary school was not broken in 2021. This year Ciattarelli only gave shyly the majority of the Republican primary votes. He was the top votes in all 21 counties and almost doubled the vote of his next competitor. The counties that the most republican primary voices contributed this year were Ocean, Morris and Monmouth.
Further down in the ballot paper, all 80 seats of the general assembly are available this year, although only 25 districts are exposed to competitive races. Primary voters can choose up to two candidates per district, and each race will have two winners. Democrats have a one -sided majority in the chamber.
The seats of the Senate of the Senate will not be for the election until 2027. Some voters in Bergen and Passaic Counties in the north of New Jersey will select candidates for a special elections of the state in District 35, although neither the democratic nor are the republican primary school. Democrats also have a decisive majority in the state’s Senate.
The Associated Press does not make projections and only explains a winner if it is found that there is no scenario that enables the follow -up candidates to close the gap. If a breed has not been called, the AP will continue to cover all the latest developments such as candidate concessions or victory clearations. The AP will make it clear that he has not yet explained a winner and explains why.
Payment is very infrequent in New Jersey. The state has no automatic follow -up trains, but candidates and voters can apply for and pay, whereby the costs will be reimbursed if the result changes. The AP can explain a winner in a race that is suitable for a recording if it can find that the leadership is too gigantic to receive a recording or a legal challenge in order to change the result.
Here is a look at what you can expect on Tuesday:
Main day
The state area code of New Jersey will take place on Tuesday. Surveys close at 8 p.m.
What is on the ballot?
The Associated Press will provide voting results and will explain winners in the primary elections for governors, general assembly and the undisputed special forecasts in the district of Senate 35.
Who can vote?
Registered party members may only vote in the area code of their own party. In other words, Democrats cannot vote in the republican primary school or vice versa. Independent or non -associated voters can participate in the primary school, but the coordination in the primary center of a party will enroll into this party.
What are the turnout and pre -selection?
From Sunday there were around 6.6 million registered voters in New Jersey. Of these, 37% were democrats or about 2.4 million voters, and about 25% were republicans or 1.6 million voters. Another 2.4 million voters were not associated with any party.
In the 2021 primary election for the governor, the total participation was about 6% of registered voters in the democratic primary school and about 5% in the republican primary school. Almost 383,000 ballot papers were given in the democratic primary school and around 339,000 in the Republican primary school.
Voting slips that were completed before the primary day in 2021 made up about 38% of the total votes in the democratic primary school and 19% in the republican primary school. In the state primary states of two years, 55% of the democratic primary votes and 29% of the republican primary votes were given before the election day.
From Thursday morning, more than 248,000 democratic primary voting slips and more than 91,000 Republican primary votes were given before the primary day.
How long does the vote recording normally take?
In the 2024 presidential election in New Jersey, the first results came, at 8:01 p.m. ET, one minute after completing the surveys. The table of votes ended at 4:21 a.m. ET in Burlington County with about 95% of the vote.
Are we already there?
From Tuesday, 147 days will take place until the parliamentary elections in November.
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