Voters in New Jersey have returned 247,807 vote-by-mail ballots with a statewide return rate of 35.7%, an analysis by Ryan Dubicki, an Associated Press election researcher, shows.
Election officials have fulfilled 693,189 mail-in ballot requests so far, including 518,248 from Democrats and 170,585 from Republicans. That means 21% of the state’s registered Democrats and 11% of registered Republicans requested VBMs; 37% of Democrats and 33% of Republicans have already returned their ballots.
So far, 19,746 Democrats and 6,027 Republicans have already submitted VBM ballots in New Jersey’s 3rd district, where Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) is leaving the House to run for U.S. Senator. Democrats have returned 41% of their ballots – 45% in Burlington, 37% in Mercer, and 33% in Monmouth.
In the 8th district, where Rep. Rob Menendez (D-Jersey City) and Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla are battling for the Democratic nomination, 7,829 vote-by-mail votes have been cast; 82% of those votes come from Hudson County. More than one-in-four VBM voters (26%) are from Jersey City.