NJ-11: New Jersey House Primary Remains Too Close to Call

wo Democrats remained in a neck-and-neck battle late Thursday night in a hotly contested primary race for a House seat vacated by Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey.

With about 91 percent of the vote tallied, Analilia Mejia, a left-leaning political organizer, was leading her main opponent, Tom Malinowski, a former two-term House member, by a slim, 486-vote margin four hours after polls closed.

Ms. Mejia led the state’s Working Families alliance until 2019, when she left to help run Senator Bernie Sanders’s second presidential campaign. She was endorsed by an array of left-leaning luminaries, including Mr. Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Many surrogates from the Democratic Party’s progressive flank traveled to New Jersey to campaign with Ms. Mejia in the final weeks of a race that became a dramatic showdown between factions within the party.




https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/nyregion/new-jersey-special-election-results-congress.html