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2018 United States House Of Representatives Elections In New Jersey
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the 12 United States House of Representatives, U.S. representatives from the U.S. state, state of New Jersey, one from each of the state's 12 New Jersey's congressional districts, congressional districts. The elections coincided with United States House of Representatives elections, 2018, other elections to the House of Representatives, United States Senate elections, 2018, elections to the United States Senate, and various United States elections, 2018#State elections, state and United States elections, 2018#Local elections, local elections. Democrats won four seats from Republicans and changed control from 7–5 for Democrats to 11–1 for Democrats, the fewest seats Republicans had won in the state since 1912 United States House of Representatives elections, 1912. This was the first time since the 1912 elections that Republicans failed to hold any seat in North Jerse ...
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United States House Of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Article One of the United States Constitution, Article One of the Constitution of the United States, U.S. Constitution to pass or defeat federal legislation, known as Bill (United States Congress), bills. Those that are also passed by the Senate are sent to President of the United States, the president for signature or veto. The House's exclusive powers include initiating all revenue bills, Impeachment in the United States, impeaching federal officers, and Contingent election, electing the president if no candidate receives a majority of votes in the United States Electoral College, Electoral College. Members of the House serve a Fixed-term election, fixed term of two years, with each seat up for election before the start of the next Congress. ...
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New Jersey Democratic State Committee
The New Jersey Democratic State Committee (NJDSC) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of New Jersey. LeRoy J. Jones Jr. is the chair and Peg Schaffer is the vice chair. Its main rival is the New Jersey Republican State Committee. It is currently the dominant party in the state, controlling every statewide office, including both of the state's U.S. Senate seats and the governorship, as well as 9 out of 12 U.S. House seats and both chambers of the state legislature. Structure The NJDSC has a 13-member executive committee. The party also has a county chair for each of the state's 21 counties. Current elected officials The New Jersey Democratic Party holds a majority in the New Jersey Senate and the New Jersey General Assembly. The party also holds both U.S. Senate seats, 7 of the state's 12 U.S. House seats, and the governor's and lieutenant governor's offices. Members of Congress U.S. Senate Democrats have controlled both of New Jersey's seats in th ...
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New Jersey's 8th Congressional District
New Jersey's 8th congressional district is currently represented by Democrat Rob Menendez, who has served in Congress since January 2023. The district is majority Hispanic, and includes some of the most urban areas of New Jersey, including parts of Newark and Jersey City, as well as Elizabeth. Counties and municipalities in the district For the 118th and successive Congresses (based on redistricting following the 2020 census), the district contains all or portions of three counties and 13 municipalities."Plan Components"
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New Jersey's 7th Congressional District
New Jersey's 7th congressional district includes all of Hunterdon and Warren Counties; and parts of Morris, Somerset, Sussex, and Union Counties. The district is represented by Republican Thomas Kean Jr., who was first elected in 2022, defeating Democratic incumbent Tom Malinowski. The district, which has become more ethnically diverse over time, is one of the most affluent congressional districts in the United States, with the twelfth-highest median income in the nation. History In the 2012 general election, Republican incumbent Leonard Lance held his seat against Democratic challenger Upendra J. Chivukula. In the 2010 general election, Democratic challenger Ed Potosnak challenged Lance, but Lance defeated Potosnak by a margin of 59% to 41%. For the 2012 election, both Potosnak and former Edison Mayor Jun Choi announced their candidacies for the Democratic nomination. Choi dropped out of the race in December 2011 after redistricting left his Edison home outside the 7 ...
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New Jersey's 6th Congressional District
New Jersey's 6th congressional district is represented by Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Frank Pallone, who has served the district in Congress since 1993. The district includes the northern and eastern portions of Middlesex County, New Jersey, Middlesex County and the coastal areas of Monmouth County, New Jersey, Monmouth County, including towns along the Raritan Bay. Following the redistricting process in 2021, the 6th district remained similar to its prior configuration, though it gained the liberal towns of Neptune Township, New Jersey, Neptune Township and Red Bank, New Jersey, Red Bank, while losing the more conservative Marlboro Township, New Jersey, Marlboro Township, among other minor changes. According to estimates from The Cook Political Report, the district became slightly more Democratic after redistricting. Counties and municipalities in the district For the 118th United States Congress, 118th and successive Congresses (based on redistricting following ...
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New Jersey's 5th Congressional District
New Jersey's 5th congressional district is represented by Democrat Josh Gottheimer, who has served in Congress since 2017. The district stretches across the entire northern border of the state and contains most of Bergen County, as well as parts of Passaic County and Sussex County. Historically, most of the areas in the district have generally been favorable for Republicans. This is especially true of the western portion, which contains some of the most Republican areas in the Northeast. However, Bergen County has trended Democratic in recent elections, though not as overwhelmingly as in the more urbanized southern portion of Bergen County, this latter portion being in the ninth congressional district. Partly due to a strong performance in Bergen County, Josh Gottheimer unseated 14-year Republican incumbent Scott Garrett in 2016. This made Garrett the only one of the state's 12 incumbents to lose reelection that year and marked the first time a Democrat won this seat sin ...
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New Jersey's 4th Congressional District
New Jersey's 4th congressional district is a congressional district that stretches along the Jersey Shore. It has been represented by Republican Party (United States), Republican Chris Smith (New Jersey politician), Chris Smith since 1981, the second-longest currently serving member of the US House of Representatives and the longest serving member of Congress from New Jersey in history. Although the 4th district had a presence in Mercer County, New Jersey, Mercer County for decades, it lost its two municipalities in the county (Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, Hamilton Township and Robbinsville Township, New Jersey, Robbinsville Township) following the redistricting process in late 2021, which was based on the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The district is currently contained to Monmouth County, New Jersey, Monmouth County and Ocean County, New Jersey, Ocean County. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of R+14, it is the most Republican district in New ...
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New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District
New Jersey's 3rd congressional district is a suburban district in southern and central New Jersey. Centrally located on the I-95 corridor in the Northeast Megalopolis, at the cross-roads between the Delaware Valley region in the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area and the Raritan Valley region within the larger New York metropolitan area, the district includes large swaths of Burlington County, and portions of Mercer and Monmouth Counties. It is currently represented by Democrat Herb Conaway of Delran Township, who was elected to succeed Andy Kim of Moorestown and took office in January 2025, after Kim stepped down to take office in the United States Senate. Under the 2020 census map, the 3rd district lost all of its municipalities in Ocean County, and gained several towns in Burlington, Mercer, and northern and western Monmouth Counties. Counties and municipalities in the district For the 118th and successive Congresses (based on redistricting following the ...
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New Jersey's 1st Congressional District
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Clerk Of The United States House Of Representatives
The clerk of the United States House of Representatives is an officer of the United States House of Representatives, whose primary duty is to act as the chief record-keeper for the House. Along with the other House officers, the clerk is elected every two years when the House organizes for a new United States Congress, Congress. The majority and minority Congressional caucus, caucuses nominate candidates for the House officer positions after the election of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, speaker. The full House adopts a resolution (law), resolution to elect the officers, who will begin serving after they have taken the oath of office. The Article One of the United States Constitution#Clause 5: Speaker and other officers; Impeachment, House Officers and Impeachment Clause of Article I, Section II states "The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers". The Article Six of the United States Constitution#Oaths, Oath or Affirmati ...
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Green Party Of New Jersey
The Green Party of New Jersey is the state party organization for New Jersey of the Green Party of the United States. It was founded in January 1997 by Nick Mellis (chair from 2008 to 2009) and Steve Welzer. Activity The Green Party of New Jersey is an active Green Party of the U.S. state affiliate, having nominated over 150 candidates for office since it began in 1997. The party experienced its first non-partisan electoral victory in 1999 when Gary Novosielski was elected to the Board of Education of the Rutherford School District. In January 2003, Matt Ahearn, a New Jersey state legislator who had been elected to the New Jersey General Assembly as a Democrat in 2002, switched his registration to the Green Party, becoming the party's first state-level representative. Ahearn ran for re-election as a Green Party candidate in 2003 but lost to Robert M. Gordon, the Democratic candidate for office. In 2012 2012, medical marijuana advocate Ken Wolski was the Green Party nomine ...
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Constitution Party (United States)
The Constitution Party, named the U.S. Taxpayers' Party until 1999, is an ultra-conservative political party in the United States that promotes a religious conservative, religiously conservative interpretation of the principles and originalism, intents of the United States Constitution. The party platform is based on originalism, originalist interpretations of the Constitution and shaped by principles which it believes were set forth in the United States Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Independence, the United States Bill of Rights, Bill of Rights, the Constitution and the Bible. The party was founded by Howard Phillips (activist), Howard Phillips, a conservative activist, after President George H. W. Bush violated his pledge of "read my lips: no new taxes". During the 1992 United States presidential election, 1992 and 1996 United States presidential election, 1996 presidential elections, the party sought to give its presidential nomination to prominent politician ...
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