New data released by the New Jersey Division of Elections shows Republicans continuing their post-2020 trend of slowly but consistently chipping away at the Democrats’ mighty statewide voter registration edge.
The Garden State was home to 2,411,762 unaffiliated voters, 1,555,823 Republicans, and 2,492,598 Democrats at the end of March 2024.
The total GOP net gain over Democrats was 4,040 (+3,772 net GOP registrations vs. a net Democrat loss of 268 voters). Democrats still boast 936,775 more registrants than Republicans across all 21 counties, but Republicans have significantly cut the gap from where it was on Election Day 2020 when Democrats outnumbered registered Republicans by 1,079,090 voters (a 142,315 net drop for Democrats relative to the GOP).
That’s still obviously a brutal landscape for Republicans running statewide including in this year’s U.S. Senate contest. For perspective, on Election Day 2009 when Chris Christie defeated Jon Corzine, the Democrat edge stood at 704,678 voters.
