New Jersey 8th District
Currently held by a Democrat · incumbent running
- Projected margin
- D+51.1
- 80% range
- D+39.6 to D+62.7
- Partisan lean
- D+33.3
- Uncertainty multiplier
- 1.80×
The 80% range comes from 200,000 simulations in which this race’s error is correlated with every other race through the national, state and demographic layers.
- Polling average
- no polls
- Fundamentals
- D+51.3
- Blended
- D+51.3
- Similar-race shift
- −2.2
No public polling of this matchup. The forecast rests on fundamentals plus the polling residuals of demographically and politically similar races — which is the normal case: most of the 435 House seats are never polled.
- Partisan lean
- D+33.3
- Elasticity
- 1.15
- Incumbency
- +3.4
- Candidate experience
- +0.6
- Fundraising
- +4.2
- National environment
- D+7.1
- Expected margin
- D+53.5
- 2024 margin
- D+28.9
- 2020 margin
- D+45.2
- Shift 2020 → 2024
- R+16.4
- Votes cast, 2024
- 217,048
Presidential results reaggregated onto the 2026 district lines. This is where the seat’s partisan lean comes from, and it carries most of the forecast in a race nobody has polled.
- Population
- 611,790
- Median age
- 42.6
- Median household income
- $78,800
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 39%
- White
- 27%
- Black
- 11%
- Hispanic
- 49%
- Asian
- 13%
Used to find demographically similar districts, so a race with no polling can borrow the polling error of races that look like it.
| Candidate | Party | Raised | Cash on hand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert J. Menendez | DEM | $2.0M | $680k |
| Anthony Valdes | REP | $0 | $0 |
Receipts across the cycle, from FEC bulk filings. The model uses the ratio between the two sides rather than either total, and weights it lightly — money follows a competitive race at least as much as it causes one.