NEW JERSEY

Primaries:

• Democratic congressional and state primaries: mixed
  

• Republican congressional and state primaries: mixed

• Democratic Presidential primary: closed

• Republican Presidential primary: closed
  

Primary Type Definitions

Registration:

• Voters may or may not choose to affiliate with a political party, however, affiliation with a party is required to vote in primary elections.

• 39% of New Jersey voters are registered as unaffiliated.

Details of voting in congressional and state primary elections:

• Voters must affiliate with a party in order to participate in that party's primary elections.

• Unaffiliated voters may affiliate with a political party at the polls in order to participate in that party's primary.

• Party members that want to change their affiliation must do so 55 days before the primary election.