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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 12
4 candidates
Federal ▾
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Adam Hamawy
DEM
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
  • Affordable health care
  • Strong public schools
  • An economy for working families over special interests
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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GM
Gregg Mele
REP
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
  • Fiscal responsibility and eliminating wasteful federal programs
  • New Jersey's fair share of federal resources for its density and aging infrastructure
  • Standing up for parents, seniors, small business owners, veterans, and first responders
Per the campaign site.
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Andres Jinete
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
  • Rent control and stronger renters' protections to address the housing affordability crisis
  • Universal healthcare to address medical expense burdens on working families
  • Student debt relief
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Winston Jordan
Biography
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.
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. OPEN SEAT: Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman is retiring and serves out the term, per her office's announcement.
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
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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
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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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ZIP 08628 sits in Mercer County, per the Census crosswalk; see the Mercer County page for its local races.

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