The November presidential election is now just over three months away, and New Jersey has begun to see the uptick in new voter registrations that usually accompany such elections, with a net 22,548 new voters added in July per data released today by the New Jersey Division of Elections. (For comparison’s sake, most previous months in 2024 witnessed between 8,000 and 12,000 new voters joining the rolls.)
New Jersey now has 6,598,688 registered voters, up from 6,576,140 at the beginning of July. That appears to be the state’s highest total ever; the effects of a voter roll purge in September 2023 that removed nearly 100,000 inactive voters from the rolls have now been completely erased.
As has been true for the last several years, most of the new voters added to the rolls in July were unaffiliated voters or Republicans. Unaffiliateds added 14,604 voters and now sit at 2,400,038 in total; Republicans added 7,165 voters and are now at 1,598,106.
Democrats, meanwhile, didn’t add nearly as many voters, though they also didn’t lose ground the way that they had during much of the Biden administration. Democrats added 1,040 voters in July and are now at 2,521,808 voters overall; they maintain their status as the state’s largest party by far, but are less dominant than they once were.
The place where registration statistics will likely matter the most this fall is in the 7th congressional district, which is hosting a competitive race between Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-Westfield) and Democrat Sue Altman. Republicans have a 212,434-to-193,286 registration advantage over Democrats in the district, though unaffiliateds make up the largest single group at 215,295.