Live updates for NJ Election Day 2024: See the latest news

Time up cast your vote New Jersey. Follow here for live coverage of the 2024 elections.

Along with the high-profile US Senate And Congress elections, we have updates from local races across the region, including municipality, school board And voting measures. You need to find your polling place? Below you can read where you can cast your vote.

Check back here throughout the day for live updates from our poll reporters, including commentary from candidates and voters. Don’t forget to freshen up after the polls close at 8pm on Tuesday evening to view the results of your local races.

Mail-in ballots must be personally mailed or returned to the county election board office or to an authorized ballot drop box. no later than 8 p.m. on Election Day, November 5. Here’s how to do that track your ballot by mail.

Do you want to know what is open or closed on election day? We’ve got that covered too.

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A short line of voters filed into the Hackensack Civic Center Tuesday morning.

Michael Massey of Hackensack said he has voted in every election he “could possibly get into,” and this year he is focusing on abortion, women’s rights and policing.

“Four years ago it was chaos, it was just too much,” Massey said. “The norm should be: vote, everyone accepts the results and everyone goes home instead of planning and scheming about how the election could go in different ways. I just came here to do my part .”

-Amanda Wallace

More than 1.9 million New Jerseyans cast their ballots in person or by mail during the state’s early voting period that ended Sunday.

Registered Democrats cast the most votes during early voting, with more than 863,000, according to an analysis of election data from Associated Press researcher Ryan Dubicki. That’s compared to more than 556,000 Republican votes and nearly 505,000 ballots from unaffiliated voters, who are not registered with either party. That’s a record number since New Jersey launched early voting in 2021.

Nearly 1.2 million New Jerseyans voted in person during the nine-day period when polls were open before Election Day between Oct. 26 and Nov. 3. Democrats cast 419,000 in-person votes, compared to Republicans’ 401,000 and 345,000 unaffiliated votes.

As for mail-in votes, Democrats turned in 74% of the ballots they requested, or 445,000. Republicans’ return rate was 72%, with 155,000, and unaffiliated voters returned 55% of absentee ballots, or 159,000.

More than 6.7 million New Jerseyans are registered to vote.

Do you have questions before you go to the polls on Election Day?

Visit our NorthJersey.com guides explaining what’s on the ballot:

Local breeds: Check to see if your town or school board has a referendum question and who is running for county commissioner, sheriff, surrogate and more.
Congress: Who is running for New Jersey’s twelve congressional seats?
Senate: What’s driving the campaigns of Democrat Andy Kim and Republican Curtis Bashaw, who are both running for the seat previously held by Sen. Bob Menendez, who resigned after a federal conviction on bribery and corruption charges.

In New Jersey, polls opened at 6 a.m. and will be open until 8 p.m. on Election Day. Voters can polling station and answers to other questions about voting on STEM.NJ.GOV. NJ residents can also call 1-877-NJ-VOTER with questions.

The weather on Election Day it will be nice, sunny and in the 70s. It will remain dry for New Jersey on Tuesday, now more than a month without rain.

In New Jersey, mail-in ballots must be postmarked on Election Day and received by the county board of elections on or before the sixth day after the polls close.

You can still pick up the ballot and drop it off, signed and sealed, at a ballot box near you on Tuesday. More true at the link here.