- Lead
- 1,817
- Total
- 107,055
- vs nation
- D+3.2
New Jersey 2nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,504
- Total
- 116,812
- vs nation
- D+7.1
- Lead
- 11,699
- Total
- 98,053
- vs nation
- D+9.8
- Lead
- 20,658
- Total
- 94,683
- vs nation
- D+18.0
- Lead
- 19,975
- Total
- 99,401
- vs nation
- D+12.8
- Lead
- 9,657
- Total
- 88,016
- vs nation
- D+13.4
- Lead
- 18,084
- Total
- 76,001
- vs nation
- D+23.3
- Lead
- 15,494
- Total
- 69,673
- vs nation
- D+13.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+1.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 231,5132024 5-year
- Population density
- 728 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 318 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $76,9422024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 51.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 15.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 19.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+37.1 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+52.1 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 23, NY · twin score 86.7
presidential history
Party record book
New Jersey 2nd State Senate 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
67.7%
44,379 votes · D+37.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 63.6%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
74.6%
16,631 votes · R+52.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 71.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
64,238votes
55.0% of the vote · D+11.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 59,105 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
51,766votes
48.4% of the vote · D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 50,734 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
Al Gore2000
+23.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+23.8 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +18.0 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
+26.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+51.8 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +26.3 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.
New Jersey's 2nd Senate District, anchored in Atlantic County, swung from double-digit Republican presidential margins a decade ago to within 1.5 points in 2024, making it one of the state's most closely watched competitive corridors.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 37.1 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 52.1 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.7 points.
A population of 231,513, a 52% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $76,942 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 23 and State Senate District 1.
The state-senate 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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