Participation measured against the same-year citizen voting-age population. Audited cycles count total general-election participants — ballots or participating voters, not presidential candidate votes.
2020–20243 cycles · 3 audited
2024 turnout
56.2%3,402 participants ÷ 6,049 CVAP
2020→2022 drop-off
+33.3 ptsPresidential-dependent
Drop-off vs state
+0.5 ptsPositive means a larger decline than the statewide pattern
Mechanical 2026
23.0%Recent-cycle and two-cycle persistence scenarios; not a forecast
Participation by cycle
Presidential Midterm
0%20%40%60%80%
27.7%
202020222024
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Cycle
Participants
CVAP
Turnout
Series
Quality
3,402
6,049 ± 620
56.2%
Audited
E/D
2022Mid
1,674
6,041 ± 557
27.7%
Audited
E/A
3,207
5,260 ± 488
61.0%
Audited
E/A
Sources and methods
2024: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 323/229.
2022: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 322/184.
2020: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 321/4.
presidential history
Party record book
Watsessing, NJ · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
2004–2024 · 6 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
83.1%
2,170 votes · D+66.9
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 82.0%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
28.0%
667 votes · D+42.8
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · 22.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
2,602votes
81.6% of the vote · D+63.5
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 2,573 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
713votes
21.2% of the vote · D+55.3
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 667 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Hillary Clinton2016
+64.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+66.4 · U.S. D+2.1
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +63.1 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2004
−45.2pts R vs U.S.
Place D+42.8 · U.S. R+2.5
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · −46.4 pts
U.S. House elections · 1 House
U.S. House
Each row shows U.S. House votes counted inside this Place. “Vote lead” is the local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
Watsessing · which candidate this place backed in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain. The figures below are Essex County, New Jersey, the county containing Watsessing — Watsessing’s own primary vote sits inside those totals and is not separately reported.
Presidential nominating contests in Watsessing, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
Watsessing sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 66.9 points in 2012. Between 2020 and 2024 the city moved 8.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 55.3 points.
A population of 8,232, a 34% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $103,378 describe the city. The city's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Pembroke Park and Burlington.
Akashic
Political twins — cities
The cities whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
In 2024, Watsessing, New Jersey voted Democratic by 55.3 points (D+55.3), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 3,361 votes cast, 2,573 went Democratic and 713 went Republican.
How many people live in Watsessing, New Jersey?
Watsessing, New Jersey has a population of 8,232 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Watsessing, New Jersey?
Median household income in Watsessing, New Jersey is $103,378 — above the national median of $80,734. The New Jersey state median is $103,556.
What is the political history of Watsessing, New Jersey?
Akashic tracks 6 presidential elections in Watsessing, New Jersey from 2004 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 0 went Republican.
