Pou Vs. Prempeh: See Who's Leading In NJ's 9th Congressional District Election

This story was last updated at 11 p.m. Tuesday.

PATERSON, NJ — Residents in New Jersey's 9th Congressional District will soon know who is to be their new representative in Washington, as votes come in from three counties.

Constituents in the 9th District were voting on a successor to Rep. Bill Pascrell, who died in August at the age of 87 after serving in Congress for 28 years.

Pascrell had filed to run for a 15th term this November. After he died, the Passaic County Democratic Committee selected State Sen. Nellie Pou (D-35), a fellow Paterson native, as their nominee for U.S. House.

Pou is running against U.S. Air Force veteran Billy Prempeh, who has been the Republican nominee in District 9 since the 2020 election (and is also from Paterson). And, two third-party candidates made their bids for the district: Benjamin Taylor of the Green Party, and Libertarian Bruno Pereira.

The race had not been called as of 11 p.m. Tuesday, with an estimated 62 percent of votes counted. Pou led Prempeh by just under 6,000 votes at the time.

The 9th District contains 35 municipalities in three different counties: 24 in Bergen County, 9 in Passaic County, and 2 in Hudson County (listed below). The district office is in Paterson.

Here are the latest unofficial results for District 9, according to the county clerk's offices in those three counties:

U.S. House, NJ District 9

62 percent reporting

• Nellie Pou (Democrat): 95,055 (50 percent)
• Billy Prempeh (Republican): 89,201 (46.9 percent)
• Benjamin Taylor (Green Party): 3,343 (1.8 percent)
• Bruno Pereira (Libertarian Party): 1,636 (1.3 percent)

Below are the 35 communities that make up New Jersey's 9th Congressional District.

Bergen County: Carlstadt, Cliffside Park, East Rutherford, Edgewater, Elmwood Park, Fairview, Franklin Lakes, Garfield, Hasbrouck Heights, Little Ferry, Lodi, Lyndhurst, Maywood (part, also 5th District), Moonachie, North Arlington, Oakland, Ridgefield, Rochelle Park, Rutherford, Saddle Brook, South Hackensack, Teterboro, Wallington, Wood-Ridge.

Hudson County: Kearny (part, also 8th District), Secaucus.

Passaic County: Clifton, Haledon, Hawthorne, North Haledon, Passaic, Paterson, Pompton Lakes, Prospect Park, Wayne (part, also 11th District).

All 12 of New Jersey's congressional districts were on the ballot Tuesday night.

Check back to Patch for live results as the evening progresses.