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Who is running in New Jersey’s November 2026 general election? How much have candidates and political committees raised and spent? How has voter registration changed across the state?

The records needed to answer those questions are public, but they are spread across different agencies, reports and filing systems. Understanding them often means finding the right records, accounting for different reporting periods and connecting information that was not published together.

Public Record NJ’s new Data section brings that information into a set of interactive visualizations and searchable records. The initial collection includes November 2026 general election candidates, state, local and federal campaign finance, and New Jersey voter registration trends (2019-2026).

The data can be approached from different directions. Start with a county or congressional district, find the candidates running in a race, compare reported campaign finances, or look at how voter registration has changed over time. Source information and methodology accompany the data so the figures can be traced back to the public records behind them.

Today Public Record NJ releases our research paper titled Mapping Influence and Information Flow: The Convergence of Party Spending and Political Media in Monmouth County. The study examines how campaign spending, vendor relationships, and digital media intersect within local political networks.

The research draws exclusively on publicly available data from the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (NJ ELEC) and the Federal Election Commission (FEC). It identifies recurring patterns between campaign payments and the publication of favorable online content, raising questions about transparency and the blending of political consulting with local media.