Newark: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Class 2: Booker seat); U.S. Representative for NJ-8 and NJ-10; Essex County Executive; four at-large Essex County Commissioners and one district commissioner (Districts 1, 2 or 3 depending on the Newark ballot style). No Governor (next 2029), no State Senate (next 2027) and no General Assembly (next 2027) contest on Newark's ballot; no Newark municipal office (the May 12, 2026 nonpartisan election already filled Mayor and all 9 council seats). Newark's school board is elected in April, not November..

Holding office18
the sitting council
On the ballot10
3 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Newark is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): New Jersey's 10th congressional district (city hall); the city is split between NJ-10 and NJ-8 — LaMonica McIver (Democratic)

1

Mayor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Ras J. Baraka Elected Mayor Independent Essex County Clerk
2

Council Member

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Amina Bey ✉️ Elected Council Member Independent Central Ward City of Newark
Anibal Ramos, Jr. ✉️ Elected Council Member Independent North Ward City of Newark
C. Lawrence Crump ✉️ Elected Council Member Independent At-Large City of Newark
Donna Jackson ✉️ Elected Council Member Independent At-Large City of Newark
Dupré L. Kelly ✉️ Elected Council Member Independent West Ward City of Newark
Louise Scott-Rountree ✉️ Elected Council Member Independent At-Large City of Newark
Michael J. Silva ✉️ Elected Council Member Independent East Ward City of Newark
Patrick O. Council ✉️ Elected Council Member Independent South Ward City of Newark
3

Council President

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Luis A. Quintana ✉️ Elected Council President Independent At-Large City of Newark
4

Governor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Mikie Sherrill Elected Governor Democratic Office of New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill
5

Member of the General Assembly — LD-29

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Eliana Pintor Marin Elected Member of the General Assembly Democratic New Jersey Division of Elections
Shanique Speight Elected Member of the General Assembly Democratic New Jersey Division of Elections
6

State Senator — LD-29

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
M. Teresa Ruiz Elected State Senator Democratic New Jersey Division of Elections
7

U.S. Senator

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Andy Kim Elected U.S. Senator Democratic @unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0)
Cory A. Booker Elected U.S. Senator → Winner 1,602,075 votes · 62.6% Democratic @unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0)
Joanne Kuniansky U.S. Senator Concede 24,635 votes · 1% Socialist Workers New Jersey Division of Elections
Justin Murphy U.S. Senator Concede 887,278 votes · 34.7% Republican New Jersey Division of Elections
Veronica Fernandez U.S. Senator Concede 41,410 votes · 1.6% End the Corruption! New Jersey Division of Elections
8

U.S. Representative — NJ-8

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Robert Menendez Elected U.S. Representative → Winner 106,817 votes · 88% Democratic U.S. House of Representatives
Aristotle Eliopoulos U.S. Representative Concede 5,073 votes · 4.2% Independent New Jersey Division of Elections
Craig Honts U.S. Representative Concede 5,092 votes · 4.2% Socialist Workers New Jersey Division of Elections
Da'Shone Hughey U.S. Representative Concede 3,572 votes · 2.9% We the People New Jersey Division of Elections
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U.S. Representative — NJ-10

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
LaMonica McIver Elected U.S. Representative → Winner 146,699 votes · 84.3% Democratic U.S. House of Representatives
Carmen Bucco U.S. Representative Concede 27,192 votes · 15.6% Republican New Jersey Division of Elections
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Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

  • Candidates: New Jersey Division of Elections official lists — US Senate (dated 07/27/2026) and House of Representatives (dated 09/04/2026) — cross-checked against the Essex County Clerk's 2026 General Election sample ballots (PDF created 2026-09-15; Newark styles 'CD8' and 'CD10 Comm 1/2/3'). Both agree on every name. The state lists print each candidate's address; none copied. Write-ins skipped.
  • Essex County offices on Newark's ballot (not recorded as people, as the level mapping has no county level): County Executive — Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. (Democratic), Maritza Mathews (Republican), Wynnie-Fred Victor Hinds (petition, 'LET'S WYNN THIS!'); Commissioners At Large (vote for 4) — Democratic: Christine McGrath, Abdur R. Yasin, Deborah Engel, Wayne Richardson; Republican: Demetrius Eley, Daniela Ferreira Almeida, Douglas Freeman, Sahwa DeFrank; district commissioner (Democratic only, no Republican nomination): D1 Wilson A. Pichardo, D2 A'Dorian Murray-Thomas, D3 Medinah Muhammad.
  • Municipal: Newark elects a Mayor and a 9-member Municipal Council (4 at-large, 5 wards) in nonpartisan elections every four years in May; the last was May 12, 2026, terms 7/1/2026–6/30/2030, so the next regular municipal election is May 2030. Council members, the Council President and official emails from newark.legistar.com (People list, read 2026-10-22; it also lists the appointed City Clerk, not recorded). Seats and the Mayor from the Essex County Clerk's May 2026 Newark results (Clarity ENR JSON, last updated 5/20/2026 with 169 of 173 districts). Party left null — the offices are nonpartisan.
  • Blocked or unreachable (not bypassed, no other user-agent or tool tried): www.newarknj.gov returned a Cloudflare 'Sorry, you have been blocked' page to robots.txt (civicplus.io); www.senate.gov returned HTTP 403 to robots.txt; the NJ Legislature (www.njleg.state.nj.us, www.njleg.gov, pub.njleg.gov) refused connections — state legislators therefore rest on the Division of Elections' certified 2023 Senate and 2025 Assembly results, and their current tenure was not confirmed on a member page.
  • U.S. Senators from the CC0 @unitedstates congress-legislators dataset; House members, districts and websites from house.gov/representatives (read 2026-10-22). Governor from nj.gov/governor. nj.gov's Legal Statement §F allows copying and distribution of State information unless otherwise stated. No standsFor recorded — no campaign statements were read.
  • Districts covering the city: 2 congressional (NJ-8, NJ-10) and 2 legislative (LD-28, LD-29), from a 2 km sampling grid on the Census geocoder; a district touching only a sliver of the city could be missed (NJ-11 was not hit).
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Sources

Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.