- Lead
- 33,617
- Total
- 77,227
- vs nation
- D+45.0
New Jersey 32nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 48,921
- Total
- 84,636
- vs nation
- D+53.3
- Lead
- 41,241
- Total
- 70,839
- vs nation
- D+56.1
- Lead
- 39,440
- Total
- 63,198
- vs nation
- D+58.6
- Lead
- 36,306
- Total
- 67,009
- vs nation
- D+46.9
- Lead
- 25,999
- Total
- 59,235
- vs nation
- D+46.3
- Lead
- 27,488
- Total
- 53,168
- vs nation
- D+51.2
- Lead
- 28,281
- Total
- 53,615
- vs nation
- D+44.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+43.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 230,4902024 5-year
- Population density
- 30,328 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 7.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $133,4462024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 40.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 20.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+62.6 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+15.7 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 17, NJ · twin score 95.1
presidential history
Party record book
New Jersey 32nd 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
80.8%
77,459 votes · D+62.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 80.4%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
56.3%
49,331 votes · R+15.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 54.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
77,459votes
80.8% of the vote · D+62.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 69,167 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
49,331votes
56.3% of the vote · R+15.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 41,199 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
+58.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+62.4 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +56.1 pts
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
+0.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+15.7 · U.S. R+15.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · −7.6 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 65.6%41,074 | 34.4%21,553 | 62,627 |
| 2020 | D | 75.2%51,242 | 24.8%16,930 | 68,172 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+43.5, this Essex County-anchored district ranks among the most lopsided in the state, reflecting a dense, majority-minority urban core where turnout patterns and coalition composition draw consistent analyst attention.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 62.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 15.7 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 14.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 43.5 points.
A population of 230,490, a 40% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $133,446 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 27.
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 32nd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/34032/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.