- Lead
- 48,533
- Total
- 386,972
- vs nation
- R+11.1
New Jersey 2nd Congressional District
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President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 20,450
- Total
- 412,279
- vs nation
- R+9.4
- Lead
- 24,254
- Total
- 345,405
- vs nation
- R+9.1
- Lead
- 20,651
- Total
- 332,870
- vs nation
- D+2.3
- Lead
- 18,469
- Total
- 352,067
- vs nation
- R+2.0
- Lead
- 11,598
- Total
- 325,604
- vs nation
- R+1.1
- Lead
- 28,322
- Total
- 286,387
- vs nation
- D+9.4
- Lead
- 34,579
- Total
- 269,388
- vs nation
- D+4.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+12.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 778,9242024 5-year
- Population density
- 391 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,994 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $85,2612024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 63.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 11.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 17.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+31.0 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+51.5 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Congressional District 8, PA · twin score 88.8
presidential history
Party record book
New Jersey 2nd Congressional 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
65.1%
134,691 votes · D+31.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 58.2%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
73.0%
95,662 votes · R+46.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 72.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
192,509votes
46.7% of the vote · R+5.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 182,775 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
215,100votes
55.6% of the vote · R+12.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 212,959 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
Al Gore2000
+9.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+9.9 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · +8.4 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+29.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+11.4 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +28.8 pts
Current officeholders
Federal officeholders only. State and local officeholders are planned for the next data pass.
On the ballot
Republican Jefferson Van Drew holds the seat and is contesting it.
Primary held June 2, 2026. Akashic does not yet carry the nominees for this contest.
How the seat has run
| Year | U.S. House | President | Ran ahead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R+16.9Jefferson Van Drew | R+12.5 | +4.4 |
| 2022 | R+18.9Jefferson Van Drew | — | — |
| 2020 | R+5.8Jefferson Van Drew | R+5.0 | — |
| 2018 | D+7.7Jeff Van Drew | — | — |
“Ran ahead” is how far the winning party’s House candidate ran ahead of that party’s presidential margin in the same district. A dash means the House race and the presidential figure were measured on different district lines, so the two cannot be subtracted — both are still shown unchanged.
U.S. House
Each result reflects the U.S. House district as it was drawn for that election; redistricting has redrawn these lines over time, so they can differ from the current 120th-Congress district shown on the map above.
Anchored by Atlantic City's casino economy and stretching across South Jersey's coastal and rural townships, NJ-02 has trended consistently toward Republican presidential candidates, posting double-digit margins in 2024.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 31.0 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 51.5 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 12.5 points.
A population of 778,924, a 64% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,261 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Congressional District 8 and Congressional District 18.
The congressional 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.
Compare two places, side by side
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New Jersey 2nd Congressional District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cd/3402/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.