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6 days ago | 
jerseybee.org | Divya Murthy |Natalie Tsur |Simon Galperin
Six Democratic candidates are running for New Jersey governor in the 2025 primary election, scheduled for Jun. 10. The candidates chosen to represent both Democratic and Republican parties will have their name appear on the November general election ballot along with any Independent candidates running. Registered Democratic Party voters outnumber registered Republican or Independent voters by more than 825,000, according to state data from May 2025. And their political views vary more widely.
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1 week ago | 
jerseybee.org | Natalie Tsur |Simon Galperin
Six Democrats and five Republicans are running for New Jersey governor in the Jun. 10 primary election. Some of the Democratic candidates have been described as “progressive” or favorable among “left-wing” voters. In April 2025, six self-described progressive groups endorsed Ras Baraka as their candidate of choice for governor. Endorsements came from Rutgers teachers’ unions, New Jersey Working Families Party, New Jersey Citizen Action, and Make the Road Action.
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1 month ago | 
jerseybee.org | Natalie Tsur |Simon Galperin
Bloomfield township purchased the former Essex County vocational high school property known as Bloomfield Tech in Bloomfield, N.J., for $10 million in December 2023—nine months after Essex County bought the same property for $100—raising questions among residents about the deal’s timeline, intentions, and building’s future use. Bloomfield will host a webinar discussing the Bloomfield Tech property at 209 Franklin St. on Mar. 31 here.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
njspotlightnews.org | Natalie Tsur
Voters in the 10th Congressional District will go to the polls Tuesday for a special primary election. They will select their candidate to finish the remainder of the late U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr.’s term representing the district, to be decided by a special general election in September. Mail-in balloting is already underway; early in-person voting took place July 12 – 14.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
jerseybee.org | Natalie Tsur |Simon Galperin
Eleven candidates are running in a July 16 special Democratic primary election to fill New Jersey’s 10th District congressional seat previously held by Rep. Donald Payne, who died in April while serving his sixth term and running for reelection. The candidate who wins the July special primary will appear on a special general election ballot in September to determine who will complete Payne’s term through Jan. 3, 2025.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
njspotlightnews.org | Natalie Tsur
Eleven candidates are running in a July 16 special Democratic primary election to fill New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District seat previously held by Rep. Donald Payne Jr., who died in April while serving his sixth term and running for reelection. The candidate who wins the July special primary will appear on a special general election ballot in September to determine who will complete Payne’s term through Jan. 3, 2025.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
jerseybee.org | Natalie Tsur
Democratic party members can vote through July 16 to select their candidate for the special general election in September. The Republican candidate is expected to be Carmen Bucco, a Kenilworth resident and area business owner who is running unopposed in his party’s primary. The Jersey Bee collaborated with NJ Spotlight News to contact each Democratic candidate running in the 2024 special primary election in NJ-10.
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May 22, 2024 | 
jerseybee.org | Natalie Tsur |Melissa DiPento |Simon Galperin
In early 2024, the Bloomfield Democratic Committee in Bloomfield, N.J., made headlines following an unprecedented process for filling the mayoral vacancy left by its chairperson, Michael Venezia, as he stepped down from the Bloomfield town council and into the role of State Assemblyman. Under Venezia’s chairmanship, the committee met with little notice in January to propose Democratic party candidates to succeed himself as Bloomfield mayor.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
jerseybee.org | Natalie Tsur
New Jersey residents running for mayor or council in their town or city must run in May or November elections, depending on their municipality’s local election cycle. Most New Jersey municipalities hold elections in November to coincide with state and federal elections, but a few dozen still hold local elections in May. In Essex County, 13 municipalities follow a November election cycle, which includes a June party primary election. Nine hold local, nonpartisan elections in May.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
jerseybee.org | Natalie Tsur |Simon Galperin
New Jersey’s 564 municipal governments are responsible for providing local public services to their residents. Municipal government in New Jersey can take 12 different forms, and Essex County’s 22 municipalities are incorporated under eight of those forms. Elected councils govern each, and many publicly elect a mayor. But they all perform the same primary function: levying local taxes and overseeing the municipal services they fund.
