How every N.J. congressional district voted in the 2025 governor's race [View all]

After the 2024 elections, Republicans were excited about the possibilities that New Jersey’s congressional map presented to them. The map had been drawn by Democrats to elect a mostly Democratic congressional delegation, but thanks to Donald Trump’s enormous gains across the state, their coalition was looking shakier than ever.

After this year’s gubernatorial election, Republicans’ optimism will be hard to sustain. Mikie Sherrill, en route to a double-digit blowout against Jack Ciattarelli, won ten of the state’s 12 congressional districts, and did better in every single district than both Kamala Harris in 2024 and Phil Murphy in 2021.

State-level elections aren’t always perfect indicators of how federal elections will go, and a lot could happen between now and November 2026. But if even some of what transpired this year repeats itself, congressional Democrats are likely feeling fairly good about their prospects in New Jersey.

“It’s a very, very different electorate than what we were looking at just a year ago,” said Micah Rasmussen, the director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University. “I think there’s a lot of reasons to think that 2025 was a precursor of 2026. And if it is, I think that Republicans need to hunker down and secure all the patio furniture.”



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