Public Record NJ Launches Data Section for 2026 Candidates, Campaign Finance and Voter Registration
Public Record NJ’s new Data section brings together New Jersey’s November 2026 election candidates, campaign finance, and voter registration records.
Who is running in New Jersey’s November 2026 general election? How much have candidates and political committees raised and spent? How has voter registration changed across the state?
The records needed to answer those questions are public, but they are spread across different agencies, reports and filing systems. Understanding them often means finding the right records, accounting for different reporting periods and connecting information that was not published together.
Public Record NJ’s new Data section brings that information into a set of interactive visualizations and searchable records. The initial collection includes November 2026 general election candidates, state, local and federal campaign finance, and New Jersey voter registration trends (2019-2026).
The data can be approached from different directions. Start with a county or congressional district, find the candidates running in a race, compare reported campaign finances, or look at how voter registration has changed over time. Source information and methodology accompany the data so the figures can be traced back to the public records behind them.
Find candidates in the November 2026 general election
The November 2026 general election candidate listing brings together candidates in the federal, countywide, and municipal races currently covered by Public Record NJ.
Federal candidate listings come from the New Jersey Division of Elections, which publishes the official general-election candidates for U.S. Senate and U.S. House. Countywide and municipal candidate listings are compiled from certified general-election records published by county election authorities.
The current directory includes the statewide U.S. Senate race, all 12 U.S. House districts, countywide offices such as county executive, commissioner, sheriff, surrogate, and county clerk where those offices are on the ballot, and municipal mayor and governing-body races included in PRNJ’s local election dataset. It does not currently include every contest that may appear on a voter’s ballot, such as Board of Education races or other local offices outside that coverage.
Enter a New Jersey ZIP code to narrow the list, or browse by congressional district and county. Each race shows the certified candidates, their affiliations and how many seats voters may select. Where campaign-finance data are available, a race can be followed directly into the corresponding financial records.
Candidates remain in the listing even when financial figures are unavailable. That provides a starting point for learning about a race without requiring a campaign committee name, filing number or familiarity with an election agency’s reporting system.
Because ZIP codes can cross election boundaries, the directory should not be treated as an official personal ballot lookup. A voter’s residential address determines which contests appear on the ballot. Consult your county election office for your official ballot and any subsequent changes.
Browse November 2026 general election candidates
Put campaign finances in context
Campaign-finance filings are easier to understand when they can be viewed alongside the candidates, races and committees they describe.
Public Record NJ organizes reported fundraising, spending, balances and related records into three campaign-finance visualizations:
- Local Campaign Finance: Choose a county and compare candidates in tracked county and municipal races.
- Federal Campaign Finance: Compare New Jersey’s U.S. House and Senate campaigns, including reported cash on hand and debt.
- Political Committee Finance: Review county party, state party, legislative leadership and federally registered party committees.
The figures come from the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission and the Federal Election Commission. Where available, contribution maps add a geographic view of reported fundraising, including filters for contributor type and the candidate or committee receiving the money.
Reporting periods matter as much as the dollar amounts. Campaigns and committees may cover different dates, and an unavailable figure does not mean that no financial activity occurred. Each visualization includes source information and notes explaining the measures, reporting periods, unavailable values and treatment of shared committee accounts. Federal candidate totals exclude independent expenditures and other outside spending.
The goal is not simply to rank campaigns by dollars raised or spent. The data are intended to make comparisons easier to identify and understand while keeping the reporting details and underlying sources available for closer review.
See how voter registration is changing
The New Jersey voter registration visualization is built from the Statewide Voter Registration Statistics reports published by the New Jersey Division of Elections. The state publishes recurring registration snapshots by county, legislative district and congressional district, which PRNJ processes into comparable historical views.
Choose a geography and compare monthly or yearly reports. Monthly charts show net change from January of the selected year. Yearly charts compare January snapshots over time. Detailed views also show changes from the preceding period, registration counts and each affiliation’s share of the reported total.
Democratic, Republican, Unaffiliated and Independent/Other registration appear in the main views. Detailed tables preserve all ten affiliation categories reported by the state.
That makes it possible to move beyond a simple question about which affiliation has the most registered voters and instead look at how registration has changed over the period being examined.
Registration is not turnout, and a net change does not show how many people switched parties or why individual voter records changed. Missing reports remain visible as gaps, and district views include cautions where changing boundaries can affect comparisons over time.
Explore New Jersey voter registration data
A starting point for your own questions
The Data section extends the same purpose as Public Record NJ’s reporting and research: make New Jersey’s political systems easier to understand while keeping the underlying evidence available for readers to examine.
You do not need to be a data analyst to get started. Find your community, choose a race or reporting period, and follow the questions that emerge. If a figure needs more explanation, a record appears to be missing, or something deserves a closer look, tell us what you found.