- Lead
- 36,634
- Total
- 90,836
- vs nation
- D+41.8
New Jersey 34th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 50,458
- Total
- 98,155
- vs nation
- D+47.0
- Lead
- 44,762
- Total
- 87,218
- vs nation
- D+49.2
- Lead
- 43,197
- Total
- 84,833
- vs nation
- D+47.1
- Lead
- 41,173
- Total
- 88,495
- vs nation
- D+39.3
- Lead
- 28,382
- Total
- 81,700
- vs nation
- D+37.2
- Lead
- 28,672
- Total
- 73,146
- vs nation
- D+38.7
- Lead
- 26,486
- Total
- 71,853
- vs nation
- D+28.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+40.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 233,3312024 5-year
- Population density
- 12,027 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 19.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $82,3062024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 24.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 39.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 26.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+51.4 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+51.6 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Second Suffolk District, MA · twin score 95.0
presidential history
Party record book
New Jersey 34th 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
Joe Biden2020
75.2%
73,831 votes · D+51.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 75.1%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
73.8%
36,709 votes · R+51.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 68.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
74,461votes
66.2% of the vote · D+33.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 73,831 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
74,134votes
64.1% of the vote · R+30.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 69,428 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
+49.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+51.3 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +47.1 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+34.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+40.4 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +32.0 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+40.2, this Essex County-anchored district ranks among the most lopsided in the state, reflecting dense urban population centers where Democratic candidates routinely run up decisive tallies.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 51.4 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 51.6 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 11.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 40.3 points.
A population of 233,331, a 25% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $82,306 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Second Suffolk District and State Senate District 19.
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 34th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/34034/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.