How municipalities voted for New Jersey governor

The maps show the official results of this year’s gubernatorial election as reported by the state Division of Elections, compared with the last gubernatorial election in 2021 and last year’s presidential election. Each map shows the party that won the municipality and its margin. All the maps are interactive. You can zoom in, move the maps around and click on a town to find more detailed information.

Source: NJ Spotlight News analyses of NJ Division of Elections data and county election results.

City by city, town by town, New Jersey clearly turned bluer in this year’s gubernatorial election.

Whether in places like Sayreville or Rockaway Township, some of those gains were in municipalities that voted Republican in the 2021 governor’s election or last year’s presidential election, and some were in places that went red in both of those past elections.

Overall, Democratic Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill won 94 municipalities that Republican Jack Ciattarelli had won in 2021 when he challenged Gov. Phil Murphy, who now has less than two months left in office. Some of those were in larger communities, too, including Bridgewater and Hillsborough in Somerset County and Vineland in Cumberland. More than half of the 94 had voted Republican in both 2021 and 2024.

Sherrill won in 57 municipalities that voted for Donald Trump last year; 49 of those had also voted for Ciattarelli in 2021.

Probably the most satisfying pickups for the Democrat was taking back Clifton and Passaic in Passaic County, where the poor showing by Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris last year had stunned the party. Two others were blue-collar Kearney in Hudson County and Garfield in Bergen. All four of those had been reliably blue in the past, and they returned to the Democrat in 2025.

By contrast, Ciattarelli made few gains, winning just four towns that he had lost in 2021 and nine that Trump lost last year. Only two of those, Cresskill and Woodcliff Lake in Bergen County, had voted Democratic in both 2021 and 2024.

In all, Sherrill won 300 municipalities and Ciattarelli won 262. While the state has not posted the final results yet, the Associated Press is reporting that Sherrill got close to 1.9 million votes, 56.9% of all cast, while Ciattarelli received close to 1.42 million, or 42.5%.

The final turnout number is not yet available, but an NJ Spotlight News analysis of all the numbers reported so far shows that close to 3.37 million people voted, or about 51.4% of all those registered.

That’s the largest number voting in a non-presidential election in state history and the highest percentage turnout for a gubernatorial contest since 1997 when 56% voted to re-elect Republican Christine Todd Whitman over Democrat Jim McGreevey.

For a quick visual comparison by municipality, see the table below.