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2026 candidates we're tracking in NJ-12
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Adam Hamawy
Democratic
Adam Hamawy is a Princeton plastic and reconstructive surgeon and retired Army lieutenant colonel who served as a combat trauma surgeon, attending Rutgers on an ROTC scholarship, per the New Jersey Monitor. He was part of the medical team that treated Tammy Duckworth after her helicopter was shot down in Iraq, and Senators Duckworth and Sanders endorsed him, per The Hill. He would be New Jersey's first Muslim member of Congress, per the New Jersey Monitor.
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Gregg Mele
Republican
Gregg Mele is an attorney practicing corporate law, contracts, securities, real estate, and estate planning who previously worked on Wall Street and has taught graduate courses in law and economics, per the New Jersey Globe. A lifelong New Jersey resident raised by blue-collar parents, he was the only Republican to file in the district and receives his first major-party nomination.
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Andres Jinete
Green
Andres Jinete is the Green Party nominee for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. Jinete is a union member and community organizer who has organized in Bound Brook and central New Jersey around tenants' rights, seniors and working families, according to the campaign site. Jinete announced the candidacy in December 2025 and remained on the ballot after a petition challenge from an independent candidate did not succeed, per New Jersey Globe.
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Winston Jordan
Independent
Winston Jordan is an independent candidate for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. Jordan is an IT executive and DevOps team leader based in Lambertville, according to a LinkedIn profile. Jordan's campaign describes itself as a zero-donor effort that takes no corporate money, PAC money or wealthy-donor funding, per the campaign site. Winston Jordan appears on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. House, NJ-12, per the county elections office's certified candidate list.
About this race
New Jersey's 12th Congressional District elects one member of the U.S. House of Representatives to a two-year term. Every House seat in the country is on the ballot in 2026. The New Jersey primary is Tuesday, June 2, 2026, and the general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026.