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Free public service for New Jersey votersNo candidate endorsementsGuide sources checked October 1, 2026General election November 3, 2026

Scope and limitations

What this New Jersey guide covers

This New Jersey guide covers the one candidate contest decided by all voters statewide and documents the absence of statewide ballot questions and judicial elections on the official records checked.

Included

Published now

  • All 4 certified printed choices in the statewide U.S. Senate contest
  • A separate blank U.S. Senate write-in line and an explicit zero count for named statewide write-ins
  • Two processed FEC candidate summaries
  • One exact FEC candidate and committee identity without a processed summary
  • One explicit gap where no exact 2026 New Jersey Senate FEC identity was verified
  • An explicit state-finance nonapplicability note because the sole statewide candidate contest is federal
  • Registration, early voting, vote-by-mail, identification, provisional ballot, return, cure, and Election Day rules
  • An explicit zero statewide-question count based on the state election page and official county sample ballots
  • An explicit zero statewide judicial election and retention count based on the New Jersey Constitution
Not included

Outside this release

  • U.S. House district contests and their FEC finance comparisons
  • County, municipal, school board, fire district, and other local contests and questions
  • Unnamed write-in choices, because the official sources do not publish a named statewide write-in roster
  • State campaign finance records, because ELEC does not regulate federal candidates and no state office is elected statewide in this guide
  • Independent expenditures and outside spending beyond FEC candidate summaries
  • Transaction-level donor and expenditure analysis
Known finance limits

2 finance summaries unavailable

  • Veronica FernandezThe FEC verifies candidate S0NJ00258 and principal committee C00953778 for the 2026 New Jersey Senate election, but the candidate page has no processed 2025-2026 financial summary. Missing here does not mean $0.
  • Joanne KunianskyNo exact 2026 New Jersey U.S. Senate candidate record or processed financial summary for Joanne Kuniansky was verified in the official FEC search as of October 1, 2026. The older House candidate record is not used. Missing here does not mean $0.
View the finance source notes
Not yet published

Recheck FEC processing and final county ballots

Recheck the FEC pages for a processed Veronica Fernandez summary or a 2026 Joanne Kuniansky identity, and confirm the Division of Elections page and final county ballot set before promoting this draft to live.

Dataset comparison: The two processed FEC summaries use different starting dates. The missing Fernandez summary and unverified Kuniansky identity are not zeros. No New Jersey state candidate-finance comparison applies to the federal statewide contest.
Version record

New Jersey guide 1.0

PublishedOctober 1, 2026
Contests shown1
Ballot choices4
Ballot measures0

1 statewide candidate contest, 4 printed choices, 0 named statewide write-ins, 0 state candidate-finance records, 2 processed FEC summaries, 1 exact FEC identity without a processed summary, 1 unverified FEC identity, 0 statewide ballot questions, 0 statewide judicial elections, and 0 statewide judicial retention questions

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New Jersey guide publication record
VersionPublishedScope
1.0October 1, 20261 statewide candidate contest, 4 printed choices, 0 named statewide write-ins, 0 state candidate-finance records, 2 processed FEC summaries, 1 exact FEC identity without a processed summary, 1 unverified FEC identity, 0 statewide ballot questions, 0 statewide judicial elections, and 0 statewide judicial retention questions

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