Morris County Remains GOP Stronghold In New Jersey

MORRIS COUNTY, NJ — At a rally held Tuesday in Wildwood, President Donald Trump claimed voters have made a "mass exodus” from the Democratic party, news outlets report. But, across the greater part of New Jersey, that seems to not be the case.

According to September 2019 data from the New Jersey Division of Elections, the Garden State leans blue. Statewide, 2,307,937 voters are registered Democrats and 1,331,102 are registered Republicans.

Although Morris County elected the first Democrat in nearly three decades to New Jersey's 11th Congressional District in 2018, the county seems to remain a GOP stronghold.

New Jersey's 2020 voter summary shows Morris County has 101,463 registered Democrats and 129,745 registered Republicans. Another 136,133 voters are unaffiliated.

Overall, the number of registered voters in the county has grown in the past decade, but the percentage of Republicans to Democrats has wavered little.

According to historical election data, 35 percent of Morris County's voters registered as Republicans in 2010. That percentage dropped only slightly within the decade, coming in at 34.9 percent in 2020.

In that time, the percentage of Democratic voters grew slightly from just below 22 percent to 27 percent by 2020.

Morris County joins the ranks of the state's six red counties, along with Cape May, Hunterdon, Ocean, Sussex and Warren counties.

Interested in seeing how each New Jersey county stacks up? Visit the New Jersey Division of Elections here.