Legend: ✓ election(s) / — no elections Subject to Ballotpedia's scope ... Statewide election dates in New Jersey are listed below. For more dates, please see the elections calendar. June 8, 2021: Primary November 2, 2021: General election Polling hours: 6 a.m.

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A completed absentee/mail-in ballot must then be postmarked by 8:00 p.m. Election Day and received by the county board of elections by 6 days after the election.[10][11] New Jersey gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2017 ... ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "State Primary Election Types," accessed September 27, 2024

June 6, 2021 - Voting in the June 8 primary elections will take place in-person after last year’s elections were conducted mostly by mail due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.

October 8, 2021 - File photo: Stickers await voters in the 2021 primary election in New Jersey. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Election Day is on Nov. 2. Unlike last year, when Gov. Phil Murphy ordered a largely all-mail election because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, residents can cast their ballot in person this year on Election Day — or during the state’s new nine-day early voting period.

November 6, 2025 - Mikie Sherrill held the governor’s mansion with a resounding victory against former state Assemblyman and 2021 GOP nominee Jack Ciattarelli.

March 2 Commencement of Mailing of Mail-In Ballots for Special General Election · March 23 - by 4:00 p.m. Candidate Petition Filing Deadline for Primary Election

Official State of New Jersey, Division of Elections website.

December 3, 2025 - The primary election for the seat, which includes parts of Morris, Essex, and Passaic Counties, will be on February 5, with the general election arriving on April 16. As is typical in New Jersey elections, candidates not aligned with the two ...

The full schedule of deadlines can be found here on our Chronological Election Timelines page. For immediate use, the deadline for partisan candidates to file their petitions for the special primary election is no later than 4:00 p.m. Monday, December 1, 2025.

6 days ago - Sheila Oliver, defeated the Republican ticket of Jack Ciattarelli and Diane Allen, 51.2% to 48%. Murphy formally announced his intention to run for a second term on October 1, 2020. Primaries were held on June 8, 2021.

November 19, 2025 - Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill was elected New Jersey governor on Tuesday over Republican Jack Ciattarelli, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump.

October 9, 2025 - You can vote early in New Jersey beginning 10 days before general elections, and for primary elections, 7 days before the election. The last day to vote early is 2 days before Election Day. No excuse is required to vote early in New Jersey. Find your voting locations here. You may be asked to show ID if you are a first-time voter, voting for the first time in New Jersey, your voter registration is inactive, or your ballot is challenged.

June 1, 2021 - P. Kenneth BurnsJune 1, 2021 Listen 4:17 · A woman walks past a vote-by-mail drop box for the upcoming New Jersey primary election outside the Camden, N.J., Administration Building.

After the polls close on Election Day, Election Day machine tallies are added to the results as they arrive from each location. This process can take several hours to finish. Vote-by-Mail ballots postmarked by Election Day are counted if the Board of Elections receives them within six days after the Election.

On the ballot: Governor • State Senate • State House • ... A Democratic Party primary took place on June 8, 2021, in New Jersey to determine which candidate would earn the right to run as the party's nominee in the state's gubernatorial election on November 2, 2021.

June 12, 2021 - There is no indication yet that that will happen this time around. A Rutgers-Eagleton poll released Tuesday found that 52% of registered voters would cast their ballots for Murphy compared to 26% for Ciattarelli.

1 day ago - In some towns, Sherrill’s support was huge, according to recently released final election results. Sherrill, a former congresswoman, got more than 90% of the vote in eight towns: ... In two towns, Ciattarelli was the one with the massive vote margins. In Lakewood in Ocean County, 90% of all voters cast a ballot for Ciattarelli, a former state lawmaker.

Those incumbents were: Three incumbents were defeated in the June 8 primaries, a decade-high number. Before 2021, only one incumbent had been defeated in a primary within the preceding decade: Assm. Joe Howarth (R), who lost in 2019. Eight incumbents were not on the ballot in 2021.[2] Those ...

June 11, 2025 - On June 10, Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill won the New Jersey Democratic primary for governor with 34% of the vote.