- Lead
- 19,564
- Total
- 47,515
- vs nation
- D+42.6
New Jersey 29th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 33,926
- Total
- 54,389
- vs nation
- D+57.9
- Lead
- 40,941
- Total
- 54,034
- vs nation
- D+73.7
- Lead
- 40,144
- Total
- 52,237
- vs nation
- D+73.0
- Lead
- 39,719
- Total
- 53,869
- vs nation
- D+66.5
- Lead
- 31,769
- Total
- 47,582
- vs nation
- D+69.2
- Lead
- 29,927
- Total
- 42,858
- vs nation
- D+69.3
- Lead
- 28,322
- Total
- 41,622
- vs nation
- D+59.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+41.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 233,1872024 5-year
- Population density
- 11,601 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 20.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $57,6492024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 12.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 29.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 47.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+76.8 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+11.8 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 29, NY · twin score 97.1
presidential history
Party record book
New Jersey 29th 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
87.8%
45,886 votes · D+76.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 86.6%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
53.5%
11,068 votes · R+11.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 47.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
54,044votes
83.2% of the vote · D+67.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 46,791 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
21,795votes
42.4% of the vote · D+13.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 19,989 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
+73.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+75.8 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +73.0 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
−9.3pts R vs U.S.
Place D+3.2 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · −12.9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 81.4%35,335 | 18.6%8,071 | 43,406 |
New Jersey 29th State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 76.8 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 11.8 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 21.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 41.2 points.
A population of 233,187, a 12% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $57,649 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 29 and State Senate District 20.
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 29th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/34029/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.