Political party strength in New Jersey

The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of New Jersey:

• Governor
• Lieutenant Governor

The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:

• State Senate
• State General Assembly
• State delegation to the U.S. Senate
• State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives

For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.

The parties are as follows:   Democratic (D),   Democratic-Republican (DR),   Federalist (F),   Independent (I),   Jacksonian Democratic (J),   no party, unknown, or other (N),   National Republican (NR),   Opposition (O),   Pro-Administration (PA),   Republican (R),   Whig (W), and   a tie or coalition within a group of elected officials.

Year	Executive offices		State Legislature		United States Congress			Electoral College votes
	Governor	Lieutenant Governor/Sec. of State	State Senate	General Assembly	U.S. Senator (Class I)	U.S. Senator (Class II)	U.S. House
1776	William Livingston (F)	Did not exist[1]			began in 1789
1777
1778
1779
1780
1781
1782
1783
1784
1785
1786
1787
1788
1789				Jonathan Elmer (PA)	William Paterson (PA)	4PA	George Washington (N)
1790	Elisha Lawrence (F)[2]
	William Paterson (F)
1791				John Rutherfurd (PA)	Philemon Dickinson (PA)	3PA, 1I
1792				George Washington (N)
1793	Thomas Henderson (F)[2]				Frederick Frelinghuysen (PA)	5PA
	Richard Howell (F)
1794				4PA, 1I[3]
1795				4F, 1I
1796				John Adams and Thomas Pinckney (F)
1797				Franklin Davenport (F)	Richard Stockton (F)	5F
1798
1799				James Schureman (F)	Jonathan Dayton (F)	3DR, 2F
1800				John Adams and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (F) N
1801	Joseph Bloomfield (DR)				Aaron Ogden (F)	5DR
1802	John Lambert (DR)[2]
1803	Joseph Bloomfield (DR)				John Condit (DR)	6DR
1804				Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton (DR)
1805				Aaron Kitchell (DR)
1806
1807
1808				James Madison and George Clinton (DR)
1809				John Lambert (DR)	John Condit (DR)
1810
1811
1812	Aaron Ogden (F)				DeWitt Clinton and Jared Ingersoll (F) N
1813	William Sanford Pennington (DR)				4F, 2DR
1814				3DR, 3F[4]
1815	Mahlon Dickerson (DR)				James J. Wilson (DR)	6DR
1816				James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins (DR)
1817	Isaac Halstead Williamson (D)				Mahlon Dickerson (DR, then Jacksonian Democratic)
1818
1819				Samuel L. Southard (DR)
1820				James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins (DR)
1821
1822
1823				Joseph McIlvaine (DR)
1824				Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun (DR) N
1825				3J, 2NR, 1I
1826
1827				Ephraim Bateman (NR)	3NR, 2I, 1J
1828				John Quincy Adams and Richard Rush (NR) N
1829	Peter Dumont Vroom (D)				Mahlon Dickerson (J)	Theodore Frelinghuysen (NR)	6NR
1830
1831
1832	Samuel L. Southard (W)				Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren (D)
1833	Elias P. Seeley (W)				Samuel L. Southard (W)	6J
	Peter Dumont Vroom (D)
1834
1835				Garret D. Wall (J, then Democratic)	5J, 1W
1836	Philemon Dickerson (D)				William Henry Harrison and Francis Granger (W) N
1837	William Pennington (W)			6W
1838
1839			5D, 1W
1840			William Henry Harrison and John Tyler (W)
1841			William L. Dayton (W)	Jacob W. Miller (W)	6W
1842
1843	Daniel Haines (D)			4D, 1W
1844			Henry Clay and Theodore Frelinghuysen (W) N
1845	Charles C. Stratton (W)			4W, 1D
1846			3W, 2D
1847			4W, 1D
1848	Daniel Haines (D)			Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore (W)
1849
1850
1851	George F. Fort (D)			Robert F. Stockton (D)	4D, 1W
1852			Franklin Pierce and William R. King (D)
1853			John R. Thomson (D)	William Wright (D)
1854	Rodman M. Price (D)
1855			4O, 1D
1856			James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge (D)
1857	William A. Newell (R)	11D, 6O, 3A	38D, 22R	3D, 2R
1858	15D, 6O	35D, 25R
1859	13D, 8O	36O, 24D	John C. Ten Eyck (R)	3R, 2D
1860	Charles S. Olden (R)	12D, 8R, 1A	30D, 28R, 2A[5]	Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin (R) - 4 Stephen A. Douglas and Herschel Vespasian Johnson (D) - 3 N
1861	11R, 10D	32D, 28R	Richard S. Field (R)	3D, 2R
1862	10D, 10R, 1I[6]	36D, 24R	James W. Wall (D)
1863	Joel Parker (D)	13D, 8R	45D, 15R	William Wright (D)	4D, 1R
1864	14D, 7R	40D, 20R	George B. McClellan and George Hunt Pendleton (D) N
1865	13D, 8R	30D, 30R[7]	John P. Stockton (D)	3D, 2R
1866	Marcus L. Ward (R)	11R, 10D	36R, 24D
1867	13R, 8D	33R, 27D	Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (R)	Alexander G. Cattell (R)	3R, 2D
1868	11D, 10R	46D, 14R	Horatio Seymour and Francis Preston Blair, Jr. (D) N
1869	Theodore F. Randolph (D)	12D, 9R	32D, 28R	John P. Stockton (D)	3D, 2R
1870	13D, 8R	34D, 26R
1871	12R, 9D	34R, 26D	Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (R)	3R, 2D
1872	Joel Parker (D)	36R, 24D	Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson (R)
1873	14R, 7D	44R, 16D	6R, 1D
1874	32R, 28D
1875	Joseph D. Bedle (D)	13R, 8D	41D, 19R	Theodore F. Randolph (D)	5D, 2R
1876	12R, 9D	37R, 23D	Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas Andrews Hendricks (D) N
1877	11D, 10R	30D, 30R[8]	John R. McPherson (D)	4D, 3R
1878	George B. McClellan (D)	12D, 9R	33D, 27R
1879	11R, 9D, 1I	33R, 27D	4R, 3D
1880	12R, 9D	35R, 25D	Winfield Hancock and William Hayden English (D) N
1881	George C. Ludlow (D)	15R, 5D, 1I	34R, 26D	William J. Sewell (R)	4R, 3D
1882	12R, 9D	35D, 25R
1883
1884	Leon Abbett (D)	34D, 26R	Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks (D)
1885	11R, 10D	34R, 26D
1886	13R, 8D	31R, 29D
1887	Robert Stockton Green (D)	12R, 9D	32R, 28D	Rufus Blodgett (D)	5R, 2D
1888	37R, 23D	Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman (D) N
1889	11D, 10R	32D, 28R	4R, 3D
1890	Leon Abbett (D)	11R, 10D	37D, 23R
1891	14D, 7R	40D, 20R	5D, 2R
1892	16D, 5R	42D, 18R	Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson I (D)
1893	George T. Werts (D)	39D, 21R	James Smith, Jr. (D)	6D, 2R
1894	11R, 10D	39R, 21D
1895	16R, 5D	54R, 6D	William J. Sewell (R)	8R
1896	John W. Griggs (R)[9]	18R, 3D	53R, 7D	William McKinley and Garret A. Hobart (R)
1897	56R, 4D
1898	Foster M. Voorhees (R)[2]	14R, 7D	37R, 23D
	David Ogden Watkins (R)[2]
1899	Foster M. Voorhees (R)	John Kean (R)	6R, 2D
1900	43R, 17D	William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (R)
1901	17R, 4D	38R, 22D	John F. Dryden (R)
1902	Franklin Murphy (R)	46R, 14D
1903	14R, 7D	38R, 22D	7R, 3D
1904	Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks (R)
1905	Edward C. Stokes (R)	46R, 14D	9R, 1D
1906	17R, 4D	57R, 3D
1907	15R, 6D	31D, 29R	Frank O. Briggs (R)	6R, 4D
1908	John Franklin Fort (R)	14R, 7D	40R, 20D	William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman (R)
1909	13R, 8D	45R, 15D	7R, 3D
1910	15R, 6D	41R, 19D
1911	Woodrow Wilson (D)[10]	12R, 9D	42D, 18R	James E. Martine (D)	7D, 3R
1912	11R, 10D	37R, 23D	Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D)
1913	James F. Fielder (D)[2]	12D, 9R	52D, 8R	William Hughes (D)	11D, 1R
	Leon R. Taylor (D)[2]
1914	James F. Fielder (D)	11D, 10R	37D, 23R
1915	11R, 10D	38R, 22D	8R, 4D
1916	13R, 8D	40R, 20D	Charles Evans Hughes and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) N
1917	Walter Evans Edge[11]	15R, 6D	44R, 16D	Joseph S. Frelinghuysen (R)	David Baird (R)	9R, 3D
1918	46R, 17D
1919	William Nelson Runyon (R)[2]	30R, 30D[12]	Walter Evans Edge (R)	8R, 4D
1920	Clarence E. Case (R)[2]	33R, 27D	Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R)
	Edward I. Edwards (D)
1921	59R, 1D	11R, 1D
1922	16R, 5D	45R, 15D
1923	George Sebastian Silzer (D)	17R, 4D	44R, 16D	Edward I. Edwards (D)	6R, 6D
1924	42R, 18D	Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes (R)
1925	18R, 3D	47R, 13D	10R, 2D
1926	A. Harry Moore (D)	46R, 14D
1927	17R, 4D	47R, 13D	9R, 3D
1928	18R, 3D	46R, 14D	Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R)
1929	Morgan Foster Larson (R)	48R, 12D	Hamilton F. Kean (R)	David Baird, Jr. (R)	10R, 2D
1930	17R, 4D	46R, 14D
1931	Dwight W. Morrow (R)	8R, 4D
1932	A. Harry Moore {D}[11]	15R, 6D	34D, 26R	Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D)
1933	38R, 22D	W. Warren Barbour (R)	10R, 4D
1934	33R, 27D
1935	Clifford Ross Powell (R)[2]	34R, 26D	A. Harry Moore (D)
	Horace Griggs Prall (R)[2]
	Harold G. Hoffman (R)
1936	13R, 8D	42R, 18D	Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D)
1937	11R, 10D	39D, 21R	John G. Milton (D)	William H. Smathers (D)	7R, 7D
1938	A. Harry Moore (D)	13R, 8D	41R, 19D
1939	15R, 6D	45R, 15D	W. Warren Barbour (R)	11R, 3D
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace (D)
1941	Charles Edison (D)	17R, 4D	44R, 16D	10R, 4D
1942
1943	18R, 3D	Arthur Walsh (D)	Albert W. Hawkes (R)	11R, 3D
1944	Walter Evans Edge (R)	Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (D)
1945	17R, 4D	42R, 18D	H. Alexander Smith (R)	12R, 2D
1946	41R, 19D
1947	Alfred E. Driscoll (R)	15R, 6D	48R, 12D
1948	17R, 4D	45R, 15D	Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren (R) N
1949	15R, 6D	44R, 16D	Robert C. Hendrickson (R)	9R, 5D
1950	14R, 7D	38R, 22D
1951
1952	16R, 5D	43R, 17D	Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R)
1953	8R, 6D
1954	Robert B. Meyner (D)	17R, 4D	40R, 20D
1955	Clifford P. Case (R)
1956	14R, 7D	Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R)
1957	10R, 4D
1958	13R, 8D	42D, 18R
1959	Harrison A. Williams (D)	9R, 5D
1960	11R, 10D	34D, 26R	John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
1961	8R, 6D
1962	Richard J. Hughes (D)	38D, 22R
1963	8R, 7D
1964	15R, 6D	33R, 27D	Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D)
1965	11D, 4R
1966	19D, 10R	41D, 19R
1967	9D, 6R
1968	31R, 9D	58R, 22D	Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R)
1969
1970	William T. Cahill (R)	59R, 21D
1971
1972	24R, 16D	40D, 39R, 1I[13]	Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R)
1973	8D, 7R
1974	Brendan Byrne (D)	29D, 10R, 1I	66D, 14R
1975	12D, 3R
1976	49D, 31R	Gerald Ford and Bob Dole (R) N
1977	11D, 4R
1978	27D, 13R	54D, 26R
1979	Bill Bradley (D)	10D, 5R
1980	26D, 14R	44D, 36R	Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R)
1981	8D, 7R
1982	Thomas Kean (R)	22D, 13R	43D, 37R
	Nicholas F. Brady (R)
1983	Frank Lautenberg (D)	9D, 5R
1984	23D, 17R	44D, 36R	Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R)
1985	8D, 6R
1986	50R, 30D
1987
1988	24D, 16R	42R, 38D	George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R)
1989
1990	James Florio (D)	23D, 17R	42D, 38R
1991
1992	27R, 13D	58R, 22D	Bill Clinton and Al Gore (D)
1993	7D, 6R
1994	Christine Todd Whitman (R)[14]	24R, 16D	53R, 27D
1995	8R, 5D
1996	50R, 30D	Bill Clinton and Al Gore (D)
1997	Robert Torricelli (D)	7R, 6D
1998	48R, 32D
1999	7D, 6R
2000	45R, 35D	Al Gore and Joe Lieberman (D) N
2001	Jon Corzine (D)[15]
	Donald DiFrancesco (R)[16][17]
2002	John Farmer Jr. (R)[18]	20D, 20R[19]	44D, 36R
	John O. Bennett (R)[16]
	Richard Codey (D)[16]
	Jim McGreevey (D)[20]
2003	Frank Lautenberg (D)
2004	22D, 18R	47D, 33R	John Kerry and John Edwards (D) N
	Richard Codey (D)[17][21]
2005
2006	Jon Corzine (D)	49D, 31R
	Bob Menendez (D)[22]	6D, 6R
	7D, 6R
2007
2008	23D, 17R	48D, 32R	Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D)
2009	8D, 5R
2010	Chris Christie (R)	Kim Guadagno (R)	47D, 33R
2011	24D, 16R[23]	7D, 6R
2012	48D, 32R
2013	6D, 6R
		Jeffrey Chiesa (R)
		Cory Booker (D)
2014	6R, 5D[24]
2015	6D, 6R
2016		52D, 28R	Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine (D) N
2017	7D, 5R
Year	Governor	Lieutenant Governor/Sec. of State	State Senate	General Assembly	U.S. Senator (Class I)	U.S. Senator (Class II)	U.S. House	Electoral College votes
	Executive offices		State Legislature		United States Congress

Notes

1. A lieutenant governor took office for the first time on January 19, 2010. The position was created as the result of an amendment to the New Jersey State Constitution approved by voters on November 8, 2005 and effective January 17, 2006.
2. Acting.
3. Abraham Clark, a member of the Pro-Administration Party, died September 15, 1794, and Aaron Kitchell was elected to fill his vacancy
4. Jacob Hufty, a Federalist, died on May 20, 1814, and was replaced by Thomas Bines, a Democratic-Republican, on November 2, 1814
5. A Democrat, Austin H. Patterson, was elected Speaker.
6. A War Democrat, Joseph T. Crowell, was elected President of the Senate with Republican support.
7. After some days of discussion, a Democrat, Joseph T. Crowell, was elected Speaker.
8. After several days of ballots, a Democrat, Rudolph Rabe, was elected Speaker of the Assembly.
9. Resigned in order to become attorney general of the United States.
10. Resigned in order to become president of the United States.
11. Resigned in order to become a United States senator.
12. With the split chamber between the parties, a Republican, Arthur N. Pierson, was selected as Speaker after his name was drawn from a hat.
13. Although the Democrats were the largest party, four Democrats led by David Friedland cut a deal to elect Republican Thomas Kean Speaker in exchange for leading various House committees and becoming a party of their caucus.
14. Resigned to become Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
15. Resigned after election as governor.
16. State Senate president who held the title of acting governor.
17. Per legislation signed by Codey on January 10, 2006, any acting Governor who serves for at least 6 months would officially have the title "governor." This law applied retroactively to DiFrancesco as well.
18. As state attorney general, assumed the office of governor for 90 minutes while a new Senate president was being sworn in at the start of the new legislative session.
19. A power-sharing agreement was negotiated, with John O. Bennett and Richard Codey running the chamber as co-Presidents. Each committee also had split party control.
20. Resigned in August 2004, effective November 15, 2004.
21. Became acting governor on November 15, 2004, following resignation of McGreevey.
22. Initially appointed to fill vacancy.
23. Appointed State Senator Tom Goodwin (R) was defeated by Assemblywoman Linda R. Greenstein (D) in a special election.
24. Representative Rob Andrews, Democrat of New Jersey's 1st congressional district, resigned

See also

• Politics in New Jersey
• Politics of New Jersey
• Elections in New Jersey
• Law of New Jersey

External links

• State of New Jersey Department of State, Division of Elections
  • Year-by-Year Election Results