Republicans in the Garden State continued their post-2020 trend of chipping away, slowly but consistently, at Democrats’ long-held statewide voter registration advantage in November 2024.
Republicans added 6,239 registered voters last month, bringing their grand total to 1,634,872.
Democrats added to their ranks as well, but only 2,261 net new voters. Their new statewide registered voter pool is now 2,537,193.
While Democrats’ 900,000+ edge remains formidable, that registration gap is over 180,000 registered voters smaller than it was back in November 2020 when Joe Biden rode Covid-19 angst and universal VBM to victory. New Jersey’s Republican voter registration trend is clearly having an impact on the results. In 2021, Jack Ciattarelli came only 3-points short of defeating Phil Murphy. This year, Kamala Harris won New Jersey by *only* 5.9%, the worst Democrat performance in a New Jersey presidential contest since 1992. Trump successfully flipped multiple counties: Atlantic, Gloucester, Cumberland, Morris, and Passaic.
The N.J. GOP hopes to ride its newly-discovered momentum into the 2025 gubernatorial contest.
Among those pledging to help next year is Scott Pressler, the voter registration activist widely credited with helping dramatically narrow Republicans’ voter registration deficit in key Pennsylvania battleground counties.
