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NEW JERSEY's STATE LAWS REGARDING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS

  • Electoral College Votes Count: 14
  • Alocation Type: winner-takes-all
  • Electors Must Pledge: no

Elector Pledge and Electoral College Votes Allocation​

New Jersey is one of the 48 states that have a winner-takes-all rule for the Electoral College. In these States, whichever candidate receives a majority of the popular vote, or a plurality of the popular vote (less than 50 percent but more than any other candidate), takes all of the state’s Electoral votes.New Jersey is one of the states that do not require their electors to vote as pledged.

Election Code: N.J. Stat. Ann. §§ 19:13-2, 19:13-15, 19:13-21, 19:22-8; 19:36-1, 19:36-2,

How Does New Jersey Select Its Electors?​

  • In presidential years, the state conventions shall severally nominate for their respective parties such number of candidates for electors of president and vice president of the United States as this state shall be entitled to elect or appoint. The state committee of a political party shall certify such nomination. The State committee may also appoint a committee to whom shall be delegated the power to fill vacancies occurring prior to the election of the electors, howsoever caused, and the names and addresses of such committee shall be included in the certificate. The certificate of nomination and the acceptance thereof shall be filed with the Secretary of State.

When Do The Electors Vote?​

  • The electors of president and vice president shall convene at the State House at Trenton, or in another State building within the State House Complex at Trenton, or the War Memorial at Trenton, on the day appointed by congress for that purpose, at the hour of three o'clock in the afternoon of that day, and constitute an electoral college. Electors meet in their respective state capitals (electors for the District of Columbia meet within the District) on the Monday after the second Wednesday in December, at which time they cast their electoral votes on separate ballots for president and vice president.

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