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Mercer 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. House, New Jersey District 3
4 candidates
Federal ▾
Herb Conaway portrait
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Herb Conaway
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Herb Conaway is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district, winning the seat in 2024, per the chamber's membership roster. A physician and attorney with degrees from Princeton, Jefferson Medical College, and Rutgers Law, he served four years as a U.S. Air Force Medical Corps captain and 25 years in the New Jersey General Assembly, chairing the Health Committee, per his official House biography.
Top Priorities
  • Affordable health care, including reproductive care access
  • Environmental protection and clean drinking water
  • Service members, veterans, and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst families
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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Michael P. McGuire
REP
Biography
Michael P. McGuire is a family law attorney, Marine Corps veteran, former NYPD officer, and current Navy reservist, per WHYY and the New Jersey Globe. He says he was spurred to run after he and fellow reservists missed paychecks during the government shutdown, per the New Jersey Globe.
Top Priorities
  • Affordability through spending cuts and lower middle-class taxes
  • Congressional term limits
  • Defense readiness and veterans' health care
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Ryan Michael Kelly
Biography
Kelly has spent a career in public service, education and civil rights oversight, per the campaign site. Kelly is running as an independent candidate for New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Lowering costs of healthcare, housing, student debt and utility bills
  • Holding government officials and powerful institutions accountable
  • Expanding access to healthcare, workers' rights, housing and education
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
Steven Welzer portrait
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Steven Welzer
Biography
Welzer earned a master's degree in economics from Rutgers University and worked as a college instructor before spending more than four decades in environmental and social justice activism, per the campaign site. He helped found the Green Party of New Jersey and has run for state assembly, Congress and governor as a Green Party nominee since retiring in 2008, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Ending dependence on fossil fuels and advancing ecological responsibility ("Green the Garden State")
  • Establishing a universal single-payer healthcare system
  • Reducing the influence of money in politics through campaign finance reform
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
CB
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
JM
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
VF
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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ZIP 08520 sits in Mercer County, per the Census crosswalk; see the Mercer County page for its local races.

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