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Jersey City ballot question, BoE races set spending records

December 3, 2019 10:46 am

Jersey City’s referendum on short-term rentals was the second-most expensive ballot question in the state’s history, according to a report released by the state’s Election Law Enforcement Commission Tuesday. The question, which would have imposed restrictions on home-sharing services like...

LD1 now hosts state’s most expensive races

November 1, 2019 11:52 am

The first legislative district has overtaken the 21st as the state’s most expensive battleground district, the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission announced Friday. So far, candidates and independent expenditure groups have spent just over $2.5 million on the contests...

County party fundraising level from 2015

October 30, 2019 10:31 am

Though they have spent more money this year, the state’s county parties haven’t done much to improve their fundraising from 2015, according to the Election Law Enforcement Commission. Democrats still lead in fundraising, having raised $2,896,072 between January and September,...

Big six fundraising, spending still subpar

October 17, 2019 11:32 amOctober 17, 2019 1:01 pm

Though they’ve exceeded fundraising benchmarks they set in 2015, New Jersey’s big six are still far behind where they were a decade ago. The state’s legislative leadership committees and state parties raised a total of $3.7 million and spend $3.5...

Assembly Dems outraising Republicans 3 to 1

October 16, 2019 1:13 pm

Democratic Assembly candidates have raised more than three times as much as their Republican counterparts and have outspent their opponents by an even greater margin, according to a report released by the Election Law Enforcement Commission. The state’s Democrats have...

County party bankrolls largest they’ve been in years

July 31, 2019 10:32 am

New Jersey’s Democratic County Committees have more than twice as much cash banked than they did at this point in 2015, the last year where Assembly seats were at the top of the ticket, according to the New Jersey Election...

‘Big Six’ fundraising, cash reserves at lagging

July 17, 2019 10:39 am

New Jersey’s two major-party state committees and four legislative leadership PACs brought in about $2.3 million between Jan. 1 and June 30 but finished with the smallest election-year cash reserves in more than a decade, according to the Election Law...