Yesterday’s primary elections in New Jersey delivered few surprises; the most notable result was the failure of South Jersey GOP incumbent Joe Howarth to win ...

Residents tend to stay home when the Assembly is at the top of the ticket, but that can limit their say when legislators are determining ...

Can Joe Howarth’s embrace of Trump overcome his lack of Republican Party support?

Bergen, Barbarula, and Dunn spell out why they’ve got the skill-sets to join returning Assemblyman Anthony Bucco in Trenton

Two lawyers hope to unseat Republicans elected by wafer-thin majorities in 2017

Challengers were brought together by grassroots group that supported Bernie Sanders in 2016 and has been recruiting candidates to run for office

NJ Spotlight’s 2019 Primary Page delivers the facts about all 80 Assembly races, the special Senate election, maps and district write-ups, candidate interviews, in-depth analyses, ...

With only one Senate seat up for grabs and no hotly contested races, there are no reasons for the big money to get pumped into ...

New Jersey wasn’t one of the 21 states whose electoral systems were targeted by Russian hackers in 2016, but it has weaknesses at both state ...

The one-male/one female rule for each district was an attempt to ensure that women could play a role in politics

The county, like some others, still requires voters to choose one male and one female for county party committees. Critic calls it ‘classic’ sex and ...

Even with Democratic or Republican contests in more than 40 percent of Assembly districts, mostly party loyalists will turn out, and nominations likely to go ...