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An attorney for ELEC’s current executive director asserts the amendment is the latest move by the governor’s office to force Jeff Brindle to resign.

A flood of large campaign checks from outside New Jersey helped fatten county party coffers to their largest totals since the last gubernatorial election in 2017, according to fourth quarter reports filed for 2021 with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC). County party committees raised $14.3 million and spent $13.2 million in 2021,[...]

The 2021 legislative elections were marked by two of the state’s five most expensive races ever for the statehouse.

  A record spike in independent spending pushed the cost of the 2021 gubernatorial election to $90.7 million, the second costliest on record when inflation is taken into account, according to the latest reports filed with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC). “While the 2021 election cost the most ever in nominal dollars,[...]

More than $4 million in outside group spending just since Monday in the New Jersey governor’s race, makes this a record independent spending election.

With the legislative general election moving into full swing, candidates and independent committees already have spent $14.5 million, with more than two thirds being sunk into five key districts, according to reports filed with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC). Based on the latest available reports, candidates have raised $31.8 million, spent $12.3[...]

GOP candidate Jack Ciattarelli spent over $8 million on media as he worked to get voters to know him, compared with Gov. Phil Murphy’s $3 million on ads.

Follow the money, and the pandemic, in ranking the 10 bills that attracted the most activity among lobbyists at the Statehouse over the last two years.

File photo Last month’s legislative primary in New Jersey saw record fundraising by candidates statewide in a primary, and independent spending organizations kicked in essentially a new June election high on ads to boost candidates in a handful of districts. Candidates took in more than $37.4 million, the most ever, according to an analysis by the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) of post-election spending reports submitted through June 30. When adjusting for inflation, ho...

Democrats outraised Republicans and incumbents hauled in more than challengers in New Jersey's legislative primary contest set for next month, new figures...