{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-nj",
  "name": "New Jersey",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/nj",
  "slug": "nj",
  "state": "nj",
  "state_name": "New Jersey",
  "state_id": "us-nj"
 },
 "question": "How did New Jersey vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "Andy Kim (Democrat) won by 9.6 points",
  "value": 9.6,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2024: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "Andy Kim (Democrat) 53.6%, Curtis Bashaw (Republican) 44.0%, Christina Khalil (Independent) 1.1%",
   "4,031,795 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2024",
 "as_of_label": "2024",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in New Jersey since 1976",
   "description": "17 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 17 and Republicans in 0.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1976,
       22.611,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1978,
       12.197,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1982,
       3.187,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1984,
       29.277,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1988,
       8.367,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1990,
       3.041,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1994,
       3.272,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1996,
       10.12,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2000,
       3.017,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2002,
       9.928,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2006,
       9.025,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2008,
       14.076,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2012,
       19.491,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2014,
       13.51,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2018,
       11.179,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2020,
       16.307,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2024,
       9.621,
       "dem"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1976,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2771390,
    "votes": {
     "Harrison A. Williams Jr.": 1681140,
     "David F. Norcross": 1054508,
     "Hannibal Cundari": 19907,
     "Bernardo S. Doganiero": 9185,
     "Leif Johnson": 6650
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1978,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1957515,
    "votes": {
     "Bill Bradley": 1082960,
     "Jeffrey Bell": 844200,
     "Herbert Harry Shaw": 4736,
     "Bill Gahres": 3817,
     "Jack Moyers": 3809,
     "Robert Brown": 3656,
     "J. M. Carter Jr.": 3618,
     "Jasper C. Gould": 2955,
     "William R. Thorn": 2776,
     "Paul Ferguson": 2604,
     "Alice Conner": 2384
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1982,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2193945,
    "votes": {
     "Frank R. Lautenberg": 1117549,
     "Millicent Fenwick": 1047626,
     "Henry Koch": 9934,
     "Julius Levin": 5580,
     "Martin E. Wendelken": 4745,
     "Claire Moriarty": 3726,
     "Robert T. Bastien": 2955,
     "Rose Zeidwerg Monyek": 1830
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1984,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3096456,
    "votes": {
     "Bill Bradley": 1986644,
     "Mary V. Mochary": 1080100,
     "James T. Hagen": 10409,
     "Harold F. Leiendecker": 7135,
     "Julius Levin": 6053,
     "Priscilla Schenk": 3224,
     "Jasper C. Gould": 2891
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1988,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2987634,
    "votes": {
     "Frank R. Lautenberg": 1599905,
     "Peter M. Dawkins": 1349937,
     "Joseph F. Job": 20091,
     "Jerry Zeldin": 12354,
     "Thomas A. Fiske": 5347
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1990,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1938454,
    "votes": {
     "Bill Bradley": 977810,
     "Christine Todd Whitman": 918874,
     "John L. Kucek": 19978,
     "Louis M. Stefanelli": 13988,
     "Don Mackle": 7804
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1994,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2054887,
    "votes": {
     "Frank R. Lautenberg": 1033487,
     "Garabed \"chuck\" Haytaian": 966244,
     "Michael P. Kelly": 14343,
     "Ben Grindlinger": 14042,
     "Richard J. Pezzullo": 9387,
     "Andrewa Lippi": 6303,
     "George Patrick Predham": 4226,
     "Joanne Kuniansky": 3606,
     "Arlene Gold": 3249
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1996,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2883466,
    "votes": {
     "Robert G. Torricelli": 1519154,
     "Dick Zimmer": 1227351,
     "Richard J. Pezzullo": 50971,
     "Mary Jo Christian": 23949,
     "Paul A. Woomer": 15183,
     "Olga L. Rodriguez": 14319,
     "Mark Wise": 13683,
     "Wilburt Kornegay": 11107,
     "Steven J. Baeli": 7749
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2000,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3015662,
    "votes": {
     "Jon S. Corzine": 1511237,
     "Bob Franks": 1420267,
     "Bruce Afran": 32841,
     "Pat Dinizio": 19312,
     "Emerson Ellett": 7241,
     "Dennis A. Breen": 6061,
     "J. M. Carter": 5657,
     "Lorraine Laneve": 3836,
     "Gregory Pason": 3365,
     "Nancy Rosenstock": 3309,
     "George Gostigian": 2536
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2002,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2112604,
    "votes": {
     "Frank R. Lautenberg": 1138193,
     "Douglas R. Forrester": 928439,
     "Ted Glick": 24308,
     "Elizabeth Macron": 12558,
     "Norman E. Wahner": 6404,
     "Gregory Pason": 2702
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2006,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2250070,
    "votes": {
     "Robert Menendez": 1200843,
     "Thomas H. Kean Jr.": 997775,
     "Len Flynn": 14637,
     "Edward Forchion": 11593,
     "J. M. Carter": 7918,
     "N. Leonard Smith": 6243,
     "Daryl Mikell Brooks": 5138,
     "Angela L. Lariscy": 3433,
     "Gregory Pason": 2490
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2008,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3482445,
    "votes": {
     "Frank R. Lautenberg": 1951218,
     "Dick Zimmer": 1461025,
     "Jason Scheurer": 18810,
     "J. M. Carter": 15935,
     "Daryl Mikell Brooks": 15925,
     "Jeffrey Boss": 10345,
     "Sara J. Lobman": 9187
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2012,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3376649,
    "votes": {
     "Robert Menendez": 1987680,
     "Joe Kyrillos": 1329534,
     "Kenneth R. Kaplan": 16803,
     "Ken Wolski": 15801,
     "Gwen Diakos": 9359,
     "J. David Dranikoff": 3834,
     "Inder ??andy?? Soni": 3593,
     "Robert ??turk?? Turkavage": 3532,
     "Gregory Pason": 2249,
     "Eugene Martin Lavergne": 2198,
     "Daryl Mikell Brooks": 2066
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2014,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1869535,
    "votes": {
     "Cory A. Booker": 1043866,
     "Jeff Bell": 791297,
     "Joseph Baratelli": 16721,
     "Hank Schroeder": 5704,
     "Jeff Boss": 4513,
     "Eugene Martin Lavergne": 3890,
     "Antonio N. Sabas": 3544
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2018,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3169310,
    "votes": {
     "Robert Menendez": 1711654,
     "Bob Hugin": 1357355,
     "Madelyn R. Hoffman": 25150,
     "Murray Sabrin": 21212,
     "Natalie Lynn Rivera": 19897,
     "Tricia Flanagan": 16101,
     "Kevin Kimple": 9087,
     "Hank Schroeder": 8854
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2020,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 4440440,
    "votes": {
     "Cory Booker": 2541178,
     "Rikin \"rik\" Mehta": 1817052,
     "Madelyn R. Hoffman": 38288,
     "Veronica Fernandez": 32290,
     "Daniel Burke": 11632
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2024,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 4031795,
    "votes": {
     "Andy Kim": 2161491,
     "Curtis Bashaw": 1773589,
     "Christina Khalil": 45443,
     "Kenneth R. Kaplan": 24242,
     "Patricia G. Mooneyham": 17224,
     "Joanne Kuniansky": 9806
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2024",
    "Andy Kim (D) 53.6%",
    "Curtis Bashaw (R) 44.0%",
    "9.6 pts",
    "4,031,795"
   ],
   [
    "2020",
    "Cory Booker (D) 57.2%",
    "Rikin \"rik\" Mehta (R) 40.9%",
    "16.3 pts",
    "4,440,440"
   ],
   [
    "2018",
    "Robert Menendez (D) 54.0%",
    "Bob Hugin (R) 42.8%",
    "11.2 pts",
    "3,169,310"
   ],
   [
    "2014",
    "Cory A. Booker (D) 55.8%",
    "Jeff Bell (R) 42.3%",
    "13.5 pts",
    "1,869,535"
   ],
   [
    "2012",
    "Robert Menendez (D) 58.9%",
    "Joe Kyrillos (R) 39.4%",
    "19.5 pts",
    "3,376,649"
   ],
   [
    "2008",
    "Frank R. Lautenberg (D) 56.0%",
    "Dick Zimmer (R) 42.0%",
    "14.1 pts",
    "3,482,445"
   ],
   [
    "2006",
    "Robert Menendez (D) 53.4%",
    "Thomas H. Kean Jr. (R) 44.3%",
    "9.0 pts",
    "2,250,070"
   ],
   [
    "2002",
    "Frank R. Lautenberg (D) 53.9%",
    "Douglas R. Forrester (R) 43.9%",
    "9.9 pts",
    "2,112,604"
   ],
   [
    "2000",
    "Jon S. Corzine (D) 50.1%",
    "Bob Franks (R) 47.1%",
    "3.0 pts",
    "3,015,662"
   ],
   [
    "1996",
    "Robert G. Torricelli (D) 52.7%",
    "Dick Zimmer (R) 42.6%",
    "10.1 pts",
    "2,883,466"
   ],
   [
    "1994",
    "Frank R. Lautenberg (D) 50.3%",
    "Garabed \"chuck\" Haytaian (R) 47.0%",
    "3.3 pts",
    "2,054,887"
   ],
   [
    "1990",
    "Bill Bradley (D) 50.4%",
    "Christine Todd Whitman (R) 47.4%",
    "3.0 pts",
    "1,938,454"
   ],
   [
    "1988",
    "Frank R. Lautenberg (D) 53.6%",
    "Peter M. Dawkins (R) 45.2%",
    "8.4 pts",
    "2,987,634"
   ],
   [
    "1984",
    "Bill Bradley (D) 64.2%",
    "Mary V. Mochary (R) 34.9%",
    "29.3 pts",
    "3,096,456"
   ],
   [
    "1982",
    "Frank R. Lautenberg (D) 50.9%",
    "Millicent Fenwick (R) 47.8%",
    "3.2 pts",
    "2,193,945"
   ],
   [
    "1978",
    "Bill Bradley (D) 55.3%",
    "Jeffrey Bell (R) 43.1%",
    "12.2 pts",
    "1,957,515"
   ],
   [
    "1976",
    "Harrison A. Williams Jr. (D) 60.7%",
    "David F. Norcross (R) 38.0%",
    "22.6 pts",
    "2,771,390"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "api": {
  "now": "/data/places/us-nj/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}