Dems gain 82k registrants, GOP gains 41k as voters flock to primaries

More than 100,000 unaffiliated voters registered with Democrats or Republicans in the days leading up to last month’s primary, with Democrats undoing recent gains from Republican registrants, according to state voter registration data.

Democrats entered June with 2,451,752 registered voters and July with 2,534,153, a jump of 82,401. The GOP entered June with 1,624,437 and July with 1,665,276, an increase of 40,839.

Most of those new registrants are not new voters, but rather unaffiliated voters who declared to a party while voting in the primary. There were 2,423,449 unaffiliated voters in the state heading into June — by the time the month was over, 2,306,930 remained, a drop of 116,519.

Still, the state added 5,924 total registered voters in the month of June. A total of 6,580,616 people are now registered to vote in New Jersey. About 38.5% of the state’s voters are Democrats, beating the 25.3% who are registered Republicans and the 35.1% who are unaffiliated.



https://newjerseyglobe.com/voters/dems-gain-82k-registrants-gop-gains-41k-as-voters-flock-to-primaries/