Politics & Government
5 NJ Counties Flip Red In Trump Vs. Harris Race: See Breakdown
More than 4 million New Jersey residents cast their vote for President. Take a look at the votes were cast in each county.
NEW JERSEY — Donald Trump flipped five New Jersey counties from blue to red in Tuesday night's presidential election, showing he made gains in the Garden State since the 2020 election.
Tuesday was a busy Election Day, and more than 4 million New Jersey residents cast their vote for President; final tallies were still being calculated early Wednesday afternoon.
Current Vice President Kamala Harris was expected to concede to Trump, who won a second non-consecutive term in the White House, at 4 p.m. on Wednesday.
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Harris won New Jersey by 177,150 votes and 4.3 points according to the most recent results — a much smaller margin against Trump than in 2020, when Biden won the state by 16 percentage points; or in 2016, when Hillary Clinton won by 14 points.
The latest tally, with 94 percent of precincts reporting, is 2,090,864 votes for Harris and 1,914,269 for Trump. More than 79,400 people cast their ballots for third-party candidates, including 37,308 for Green Party mainstay Jill Stein and 22,273 for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was on New Jersey's ballot though he did not appear on every state's.
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Morris, Passaic, Gloucester, Cumberland, and Atlantic counties had all gone for Joe Biden in 2020 — but Trump won these counties on Tuesday.
Trump did predictably well in Ocean County, where he had more than 117,000 votes over Harris and a 36-point lead.
Harris saw her biggest lead in Essex County, with a 44-point lead and close to 130,000 votes over Trump.
Races were closest in Bergen County and Gloucester County, where the margin of victory was 3.1 percent for Harris and 3 percent for Trump, respectively.
Here's a closer look at how many people in each New Jersey county cast their votes for each candidate, as of the latest results from around the state (provisional ballots and remaining mail-in ballots are not included):
Atlantic County
- Kamala Harris: 59,293
- Donald Trump: 64,176
- Percentage point difference: Trump +3.8
Bergen County
- Kamala Harris: 224,863
- Donald Trump: 210,870
- Percentage point difference: Harris +3.1
Burlington County
- Kamala Harris: 66,795
- Donald Trump: 40,161
- Percentage point difference: Harris +24.5
Camden County
- Kamala Harris: 145,686
- Donald Trump: 82,527
- Percentage point difference: Harris +27
Cape May County
- Kamala Harris: 20,687
- Donald Trump: 31,127
- Percentage point difference: Trump + 19.7
Cumberland County
- Kamala Harris: 25,666
- Donald Trump: 27,965
- Percentage point difference: Trump +4.2
Essex County
- Kamala Harris: 208,985
- Donald Trump: 79,744
- Percentage point difference: Harris +44
Gloucester County
- Kamala Harris: 76,179
- Donald Trump: 81,047
- Percentage point difference: Trump +3
Hudson County
- Kamala Harris: 132,987
- Donald Trump: 73,683
- Percentage point difference: Harris +27.8
Hunterdon County
- Kamala Harris: 36,009
- Donald Trump: 41,670
- Percentage point difference: Trump +7.1
Mercer County
- Kamala Harris: 98,445
- Donald Trump: 48,608
- Percentage point difference: Harris +33
Middlesex County
- Kamala Harris: 177,291
- Donald Trump: 151,813
- Percentage point difference: Harris +7.5
Monmouth County
- Kamala Harris: 148,386
- Donald Trump: 191,478
- Percentage point difference: Trump+ 12.4 percent
Morris County
- Kamala Harris: 127,545
- Donald Trump: 138,611
- Percentage point difference: Trump +4
Ocean County
- Kamala Harris: 102,079
- Donald Trump: 219,969
- Percentage point difference: Trump +36
Passaic County
- Kamala Harris: 89,086
- Donald Trump: 95,620
- Percentage point difference: Trump +3.4
Salem County
- Kamala Harris: 11,813
- Donald Trump: 17,894
- Percentage point difference: Trump +20
Somerset County
- Kamala Harris: 82,362
- Donald Trump: 68,376
- Percentage point difference: Harris +9
Sussex County
- Kamala Harris: 30,104
- Donald Trump: 51,371
- Percentage point difference: Trump + 25.5
Union County
- Kamala Harris: 139,025
- Donald Trump: 84,814
- Percentage point difference: Harris +23.6
Warren County
- Kamala Harris: 21,459
- Donald Trump: 34,349
- Percentage point difference: Trump +22.6
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