- Lead
- 11,234
- Total
- 127,788
- vs nation
- R+7.3
New Jersey 26th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,641
- Total
- 135,000
- vs nation
- R+5.7
- Lead
- 9,509
- Total
- 114,036
- vs nation
- R+10.4
- Lead
- 13,057
- Total
- 103,340
- vs nation
- R+16.5
- Lead
- 13,135
- Total
- 111,378
- vs nation
- R+19.1
- Lead
- 21,047
- Total
- 105,843
- vs nation
- R+17.4
- Lead
- 13,543
- Total
- 93,062
- vs nation
- R+15.1
- Lead
- 9,513
- Total
- 88,252
- vs nation
- R+19.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+8.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 226,0752024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,528 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 148 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $131,8802024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 67.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+7.1 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+58.0 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 39, NJ · twin score 95.1
presidential history
Party record book
New Jersey 26th 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
52.7%
34,783 votes · D+6.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 48.4%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
78.3%
44,920 votes · R+58.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 76.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
65,308votes
48.4% of the vote · R+1.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 56,984 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
68,218votes
53.4% of the vote · R+8.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 68,195 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
Joe Biden2020
−5.7pts D vs U.S.
Place R+1.2 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · −7.3 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+43.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+25.8 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · +42.6 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.
Covering portions of South Jersey, District 26 backed the 2024 Republican presidential candidate by 9 points, a notably wide margin in a state that Democrats have carried at the statewide level for two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 7.1 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 58.0 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.8 points.
A population of 226,075, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $131,880 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 39 and State Senate District 40.
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 26th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/34026/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.