- Lead
- 25,785
- Total
- 103,167
- vs nation
- D+26.5
New Jersey 22nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 37,915
- Total
- 108,915
- vs nation
- D+30.4
- Lead
- 31,227
- Total
- 95,593
- vs nation
- D+30.6
- Lead
- 27,519
- Total
- 89,374
- vs nation
- D+26.9
- Lead
- 24,018
- Total
- 94,790
- vs nation
- D+18.1
- Lead
- 13,054
- Total
- 87,147
- vs nation
- D+17.4
- Lead
- 15,840
- Total
- 79,469
- vs nation
- D+19.4
- Lead
- 15,344
- Total
- 80,544
- vs nation
- D+10.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+25.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 238,2112024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,389 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 44.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $104,1132024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 38.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 20.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 32.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+34.8 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+53.0 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 20, NJ · twin score 92.8
presidential history
Party record book
New Jersey 22nd State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
66.6%
72,566 votes · D+34.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 65.1%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
74.7%
16,965 votes · R+53.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 70.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
72,566votes
66.6% of the vote · D+34.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 66,041 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
64,065votes
62.7% of the vote · R+27.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 62,674 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
+30.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+32.7 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +30.4 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+34.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+16.5 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +28.2 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
Anchored in Essex County's urban core, AD-22 has delivered presidential margins exceeding 20 points in recent cycles, reflecting a densely populated electorate with high shares of minority and working-class residents.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 34.8 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 53.0 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 25.0 points.
A population of 238,211, a 38% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $104,113 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 20 and Assembly District 34.
The state-house districts 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.
District research tools
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New Jersey 22nd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/34022/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.