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Meet the New Jersey State Assembly Class of 2025

January 13, 2026 11:06 amJanuary 17, 2026 1:27 pm

Twelve new Democrats will join the New Jersey General Assembly at noon today. After ousting five incumbent Republicans in the November general election, Democrats today expand their majority to 57-23, their largest caucus since the 1973 Watergate landslide. Craig Coughlin...

2025 New Jersey Globe Year in Review

December 31, 2025 3:25 pmJanuary 8, 2026 11:04 am

Click HERE to download a high-resolution version of the 2025 New Jersey Globe Voter’s Guide. Click HERE for a lower-resolution version For the eighth time, the New Jersey Globe presents our annual Year in Review, a look back at the...

Brennan, Bhalla head to Assembly with LD32 victory

November 4, 2025 8:53 pmNovember 4, 2025 11:50 pm

Housing policy expert Katie Brennan and Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla easily won election to the Assembly, the New Jersey Globe projects, sending two progressives unaligned with the Hudson County Democratic Organization to Trenton. The pair defeated Republicans Stephen Bishop and...

Katie Brennan backs Solomon for Jersey City mayor

August 19, 2025 1:07 pmAugust 19, 2025 7:41 pm

James Solomon has picked up a potentially key endorsement in his bid for mayor of Jersey City: Katie Brennan, a Jersey City activist who won a stunning victory in the Democratic primary for State Assembly in June against candidates backed...

Mapping the 2025 Hudson County war

June 20, 2025 1:29 pmJune 20, 2025 1:36 pm

Democrats in Hudson County are, to put it mildly, a fractious bunch. Not an election goes by where the local county Democratic organization isn’t consumed by infighting over a congressional seat, or a mayoralty, or a county government job, although...

Ravi Bhalla wins Democratic primary for Assembly in Hudson

June 12, 2025 10:35 amJune 12, 2025 11:20 pm

Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla has won the Democratic primary for State Assembly in the hotly-contested 32nd district contest, narrowly ousting freshman Assemblywoman Jessica Ramirez (D-Jersey City) by 179 votes in the closest race in the state. Bhalla leads Ramirez, 7,012...

It’s Jack versus Mikie, as voters deliver resounding victories for N.J. gov frontrunners

June 11, 2025 3:28 am

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) and former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli (R-Somerville) entered tonight’s primaries for New Jersey governor as frontrunners. They left them as winners. Both Sherrill, a congresswoman since 2019, and Ciattarelli, a former assemblyman and the GOP’s nominee for...