- Lead
- 8,660
- Total
- 70,674
- vs nation
- D+13.7
New Jersey 35th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 32,957
- Total
- 80,678
- vs nation
- D+36.4
- Lead
- 40,714
- Total
- 73,927
- vs nation
- D+53.0
- Lead
- 40,580
- Total
- 70,278
- vs nation
- D+53.9
- Lead
- 38,533
- Total
- 71,418
- vs nation
- D+46.7
- Lead
- 30,248
- Total
- 63,568
- vs nation
- D+50.0
- Lead
- 31,285
- Total
- 59,610
- vs nation
- D+52.0
- Lead
- 30,417
- Total
- 58,563
- vs nation
- D+43.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+12.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 238,1602024 5-year
- Population density
- 13,014 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 18.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $66,6022024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 21.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 18.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 53.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+59.4 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+13.9 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 13, NY · twin score 96.3
presidential history
Party record book
New Jersey 35th 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
79.4%
55,479 votes · D+59.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 78.6%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
52.5%
6,906 votes · R+12.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 47.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Hillary Clinton2016
56,492votes
76.4% of the vote · D+55.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 56,461 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
29,833votes
42.2% of the vote · D+12.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 24,661 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
+53.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+57.7 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +53.0 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
−11.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+13.9 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · −13.7 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 | 65.9%37,199 | 34.1%19,282 | 56,481 |
The district recorded a Democratic presidential margin of D+12.4 in 2024, compared with D+54.0 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with White residents at 46.1%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 59.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 13.9 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 28.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 12.3 points.
A population of 238,160, a 21% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,602 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 13 and State Senate District 33.
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 35th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/34035/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.