US EditionCandidates for New Jersey Governor Hold Final Day of Campaigning in Tight Race
More than 1.3 million New Jersey voters participated early, with polls showing Democrat Sherrill slightly ahead in a key race reflecting national political trends.
- On Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, Mikie Sherrill, Democrat and four-term congresswoman, and Jack Ciattarelli, Republican and former state legislator, face New Jersey voters in a tight, jump-ball contest for governor.
- Phil Murphy is term-limited, prompting the open-seat contest to choose his successor, and former President Barack Obama rallied for Sherrill in Newark amid an early referendum on President Donald Trump.
- AtlasIntel's poll shows a near dead-heat with Sherrill at 50.2% and Ciattarelli at 49.3%, Beacon Research/Shaw & Company Research finds Sherrill leading 52% to 45%, and Quinnipiac University indicates Sherrill ahead 51% to 43%.
- More than 1.3 million New Jerseyans have already voted ahead of Election Day, including nearly 600,000 mail-in ballots, while the U.S. Department of Justice will monitor polling sites in Passaic County.
- Historically, New Jersey has voted Democratic federally but alternated governors, while Democrats' registration edge has eroded in recent years and Jack Ciattarelli, GOP nominee, runs for a third time.
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NJ governor's race: Will Sherrill keep state Democrat, or will Ciattarelli flip it red?
New Jersey voters are electing their next governor Tuesday in a race that will reveal whether Democrats maintain their grip on a state that has been reliably blue but has shown signs of shifting toward Republicans in recent years. Jack Ciattarelli, a former state legislator endorsed by President Donald Trump, is trying to become New Jersey’s first Republican governor since 2018. He faces U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat in her fourth term in…
Candidates for New Jersey governor hold final day of campaigning in tight race
Over one million people have already voted in the state of New Jersey, both in person and by mail, but will the early turnout help Democrat Mikie Sherrill or Republican Jack Ciattarelli?
How NJ governor candidates spent their final day on campaign trail
MORRISTOWN, N.J. (PIX11) — Months of canvassing and debating are coming to an end as the candidates for New Jersey governor sprint to the finish line on the eve of Election Day. Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli, while addressing supporters at a rally in Totowa, had a surprise guest: his son, Jake, an Army officer, who came home from Kuwait. "I don't want to be congressman, I don't want to be Senator, I don't want to be President, I don't want…
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