- Lead
- 56,645
- Total
- 73,728
- vs nation
- D+78.3
New Jersey 28th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 71,042
- Total
- 84,209
- vs nation
- D+79.9
- Lead
- 68,278
- Total
- 79,260
- vs nation
- D+84.1
- Lead
- 66,742
- Total
- 76,629
- vs nation
- D+83.2
- Lead
- 67,082
- Total
- 78,383
- vs nation
- D+78.3
- Lead
- 55,481
- Total
- 67,770
- vs nation
- D+84.3
- Lead
- 51,380
- Total
- 62,118
- vs nation
- D+82.2
- Lead
- 48,508
- Total
- 60,433
- vs nation
- D+71.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+76.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 228,2062024 5-year
- Population density
- 12,821 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 17.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $67,1782024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 13.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 66.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 13.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+87.1 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 19, NY · twin score 98.2
presidential history
Party record book
New Jersey 28th 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
Barack Obama2012
93.2%
71,419 votes · D+87.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 92.5%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
35.0%
6,961 votes · D+24.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 32.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
83,666votes
90.9% of the vote · D+82.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 77,383 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
15,304votes
25.6% of the vote · D+46.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 14,117 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
Walter Mondale1984
+85.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+67.1 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · +84.3 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−24.8pts R vs U.S.
Place D+44.4 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · −42.0 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+76.7, this Essex County-anchored district ranks among the most Democratic-leaning in the state, reflecting a dense urban core where one-party dominance shapes every cycle.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 87.1 points in 2012. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 76.8 points.
A population of 228,206, a 13% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $67,178 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 19 and State Senate District 13.
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 28th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/34028/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.