- Lead
- 31,625
- Total
- 119,552
- vs nation
- D+27.9
New Jersey 6th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 41,704
- Total
- 128,950
- vs nation
- D+27.9
- Lead
- 30,255
- Total
- 108,920
- vs nation
- D+25.7
- Lead
- 34,969
- Total
- 107,002
- vs nation
- D+28.8
- Lead
- 35,393
- Total
- 111,875
- vs nation
- D+24.4
- Lead
- 21,611
- Total
- 104,750
- vs nation
- D+23.1
- Lead
- 26,453
- Total
- 92,906
- vs nation
- D+28.0
- Lead
- 25,710
- Total
- 89,891
- vs nation
- D+20.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+26.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 234,5362024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,271 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 71.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $96,4822024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 63.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+37.1 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+44.7 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 17, PA · twin score 87.1
presidential history
Party record book
New Jersey 6th 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
67.9%
37,781 votes · D+37.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 65.6%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
71.5%
36,069 votes · R+43.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 70.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
84,102votes
65.2% of the vote · D+32.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 74,606 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
54,229votes
60.6% of the vote · R+23.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 54,078 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
Barack Obama2012
+28.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+32.7 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · +28.0 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+38.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+44.5 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +31.4 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | D | 65.9%75,102 | 34.1%38,839 | 113,941 |
| 2018 | D | 68.9%45,058 | 31.1%20,369 | 65,427 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+26.5 across a population of roughly 235,000, this district consistently delivers among the widest Democratic margins in the state, signaling a dense, heavily urban-aligned electorate.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 37.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 44.7 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 26.5 points.
A population of 234,536, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $96,482 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 17 and State Senate District 26.
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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New Jersey 6th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/34006/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.