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Camden County, NJ

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Fields below reflect the November 3, 2026 general election ballot as races are certified.

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U.S. Senate1U.S. House1Local1
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U.S. House, New Jersey District 1
2 candidates
Federal ▾
Donald Norcross portrait
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Donald Norcross
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Norcross is an electrician by trade who trained through a community college and skilled apprenticeship program and represents New Jersey's 1st District in Congress, per the campaign site. His campaign highlights his focus on raising wages and expanding affordable higher education for working families, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Raising wages and jobs for working families
  • Health care, including fighting drug price gouging
  • Education and apprenticeships
Per the campaign site.
Key voting record
Voted no on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the House 218-214 in July 2025. Opposed
Voted no on the Laken Riley Act, expanding federal detention of certain immigrants charged with theft or violent crimes, which passed the House 263-156 in January 2025. Opposed
Voted no on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the House 231-196 in September 2025. Opposed
Campaign siteFull profile
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Damon Galdo
REP
Biography
Damon Galdo is a union carpenter in construction from West Deptford who hosts a conservative podcast, per his campaign site and the New Jersey Globe. This is his third campaign for the seat after 2022 and 2024 runs, per the New Jersey Globe.
Top Priorities
  • Middle-class affordability through spending cuts, American energy, and deregulation
  • Border security and enforcement of existing immigration law
  • Apprenticeships, vocational education, and trades pathways
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
New Jersey fields are from the Division of Elections' Official List of general-election candidates, certified July 27, 2026.
U.S. Senate
4 candidates
Federal ▾
Cory Booker portrait
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Cory Booker
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Cory Booker is New Jersey's incumbent U.S. senator and the Democratic nominee for a third full term in 2026. The former mayor of Newark, he has served in the Senate since 2013 and set the record for the longest Senate floor speech in 2025 protesting administration policy. His work centers on justice reform, economic opportunity, health care, and defending democratic institutions.
Top Priorities
  • Lower health care and living costs for New Jersey families
  • Advance criminal justice reform and economic opportunity
  • Defend democratic institutions and civil rights
Campaign Finance
$32,267,998 raised · top industries: Small-dollar donors under $200 (50% of receipts), Large donors giving $2,000+ (28% of receipts)
Key voting record
Opposed Laken Riley Act as one of nine Senate votes against it, saying it would expand mandatory detention of people not convicted of crimes and invite profiling of immigrant communities. Opposed
Opposed Republican stopgap funding measure during the government shutdown that began , holding out for an extension of Affordable Care Act health insurance tax credits. Opposed
Campaign siteFull profile
Justin Murphy portrait
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Justin Murphy
REP
Biography
Justin Murphy is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, a self-employed small business owner from Tabernacle in Burlington County's Pine Barrens, per his campaign site and the New Jersey Globe. He served four years in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Comte De Grasse, including six months in the Persian Gulf, per WHYY, and served one term on the Tabernacle Township Committee after his 2000 election, per the New Jersey Globe. He won the four-way June nomination with about a third of the vote.
Top Priorities
  • Replace the tax code with a flat income tax
  • Expand parental rights and school choice
  • Increase domestic energy production, including nuclear power
Campaign siteFull profile
Veronica Fernandez portrait
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Veronica Fernandez
Biography
Veronica Fernandez is an independent candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey, running under the slogan "End the Corruption." A lifelong New Jersey resident, Fernandez co-owns a small commercial electrical contracting business with her husband, according to the campaign site. Fernandez's platform centers on campaign finance reform, affordability and answering to constituents rather than party leadership.
Top Priorities
  • Campaign finance reform, opposing the influence of big donors and special interests
  • Making it more affordable to own a home, raise a family and access healthcare
  • Answering to constituents rather than party leadership or donors
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Joanne Kuniansky
Biography
Joanne Kuniansky is the Socialist Workers Party nominee for U.S. Senate from New Jersey. Kuniansky joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1977 and has worked in oil refineries, railroads, meatpacking and as a Walmart deli worker, according to Insider NJ. Kuniansky submitted 3,000 petition signatures to qualify for the ballot and has run for New Jersey governor and U.S. Senate in earlier cycles, per The Militant. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.
Top Priorities
  • Breaking from the Democratic and Republican parties to build independent working-class political action
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Countywide races in Camden County

ZIP 08083 sits in Camden County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All Camden County races (1).

Camden County Commissioner
4 candidates
County ▾
LC
Louis Cappelli, Jr.
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Cappelli is the current Commissioner Director of the Camden County Board of Commissioners, a public servant for over 30 years and a practicing attorney since 1987, per the county's official site. He was first elected to the Board of Commissioners in 2003 and has been its director since 2006, after earlier serving on the Collingswood school board and as a borough commissioner. He is a partner in the law firm of Florio, Perrucci, Steinhardt and Cappelli, LLC. No campaign website was found as of September 27, 2026.
Full profile
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Jonathan Young
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Young is a Camden County commissioner who first joined the board in early 2015 through a party convention to fill a vacancy, and is political director for the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters, per New Jersey Globe. The county's roster lists his current term as January 2024 through December 2026. No campaign website was found as of September 29, 2026.
Full profile
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Robert Stone
REP
Biography
Stone is a 911 responder and EMS professional with more than 32 years of experience and is the Stratford Republican municipal chairman, per the Camden County Republican Committee's candidate page and New Jersey Globe. This is his fourth campaign for county commissioner, per New Jersey Globe. No campaign website was found as of September 29, 2026.
Full profile
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Shane Bernat
REP
Biography
Bernat, of Winslow Township, is a real estate investor and entrepreneur, per the Camden County Republican Party's candidate page. His nominating petition fell short of the signature requirement for the June 2026 primary ballot; the Camden County Republican Party organized a write-in campaign that secured him the party's second nomination, per New Jersey Globe. He previously ran unsuccessfully for an unexpired county commissioner term in 2025, per a local Camden County elections tracker. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026; the official election filing is the only verifiable source for Shane Bernat.
Top Priorities
  • Economic growth and fiscal responsibility
  • "Bold redevelopment with effective leadership"
Per the Camden County Republican Party candidate page.
Full profile
About this race
Two seats up for three-year terms (Camden County's Sheriff, County Clerk, and Surrogate are not up in 2026: Sheriff Chuck Billingham's term runs to 2027, County Clerk Pam Lampitt's to 2029, and Surrogate Michelle Gentek-Mayer, re-elected in November 2025, to 2030). Democratic incumbents Louis Cappelli Jr. (Commissioner Director) and Jonathan Young Sr. finished ahead of a progressive primary challenge from Vonetta Hawkins and Constance Mercedes in the June 2, 2026 primary, 33,214 and 26,668 votes to 19,369 and 16,723, per the Camden County Clerk's unofficial primary results. Republican Robert Stone was the only candidate to qualify for the primary ballot (9,848 votes) after running mate Shane Bernat's nominating petition fell short of the signature requirement; Camden County Republicans organized a write-in campaign in the primary that secured Bernat the party's second nomination, per New Jersey Globe. An official November candidate list had not been posted by the Camden County Clerk as of September 8, 2026; the four-candidate November field is confirmed by New Jersey Globe and the Camden County Republican Party's own candidate page.
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