Elizabeth: who represents it, and who is running
U.S. general election (federal, county and City of Elizabeth offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Class 2: Booker* Dem, Murphy Rep, Fernandez Ind, Kuniansky Ind/SWP); U.S. Representative NJ-8 (Menendez* Dem, no Republican nomination, Hughey, Honts, Eliopoulos); Union County Sheriff (Corvelli* v Napolitano); County Clerk (open: Cooper v Diaz); three at-large County Commissioners (Leon*, Bodek*, Delisfort* Dem v Jakositz, Bacey, Rodriguez Rep); City of Elizabeth Council — all six ward seats (4-year terms) and one at-large seat (unexpired term). No Governor (next 2029), State Senate or Assembly (next 2027), or Mayor (next 2028) contest..
Holding office27
the sitting council
On the ballot28
12 sitting members running again
Congressional district (city hall): New Jersey's 8th congressional district (City Hall, and all 38 sampled points inside the city) — Robert Menendez (Democratic)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J. Christian Bollwage Elected | Mayor | Democratic | City of Elizabeth |
2
Council Member — 1st Ward
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlos Torres ✉️ Elected | Council Member → Running | Democratic | 1st Ward | City of Elizabeth |
3
Council Member — 2nd Ward
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nelson Gonzalez ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | 2nd Ward | City of Elizabeth |
| Glenn Maldonado | Council Member Running | Republican | 2nd Ward | Union County Clerk |
| Isaias J. Rivera ✉️ | Council Member Running | Democratic | 2nd Ward | Union County Clerk |
4
Council Member — 3rd Ward
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Kiniery Elected | Council Member → Running | Democratic | 3rd Ward | City of Elizabeth |
5
Council Member — 4th Ward
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlos Cedeño ✉️ Elected | Council Member → Running | Democratic | 4th Ward | City of Elizabeth |
6
Council Member — 5th Ward
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Gallman, Jr. Elected | Council Member → Running | Democratic | 5th Ward | City of Elizabeth |
7
Council Member — 6th Ward
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frank O. Mazza Elected | Council Member → Running | Democratic | 6th Ward | City of Elizabeth |
| Janei Holder | Council Member Running | Leadership That Listens | 6th Ward | Union County Clerk |
8
Council Member
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patricia Perkins-Auguste Elected | Council Member | Democratic | At-Large | City of Elizabeth |
| Georgette Gonzalez Lugo ✉️ Elected | Council Member → Running | Democratic | At-Large | City of Elizabeth |
| John Alves | Council Member Running | Republican | At-Large | Union County Clerk |
9
Council President
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manny Grova, Jr. Elected | Council President | Democratic | At-Large | City of Elizabeth |
10
County Clerk — countywide
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jimmy Diaz, Jr. | County Clerk Running | Republican | countywide | Union County Clerk |
| Tai Cooper | County Clerk Running | Democratic | countywide | Union County Clerk |
11
County Commissioner
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Mirabella Elected | County Commissioner | Democratic | At-Large | County of Union |
| James E. Baker, Jr. Elected | County Commissioner | Democratic | At-Large | County of Union |
| Joseph Signorello III Elected | County Commissioner | Democratic | At-Large | County of Union |
| Kimberly Palmieri-Mouded Elected | County Commissioner | Democratic | At-Large | County of Union |
| Rebecca Williams Elected | County Commissioner | Democratic | At-Large | County of Union |
| Stanley J. Neron Elected | County Commissioner | Democratic | At-Large | County of Union |
| Joseph Bodek Elected | County Commissioner → Running | Democratic | At-Large | County of Union |
| Lourdes M. Leon Elected | County Commissioner → Running | Democratic | At-Large | County of Union |
| Michèle S. Delisfort Elected | County Commissioner → Running | Democratic | At-Large | County of Union |
| Cathy Jakositz | County Commissioner Running | Republican | At-Large | Union County Clerk |
| Christopher G. Bacey | County Commissioner Running | Republican | At-Large | Union County Clerk |
| Miguel A. Rodriguez | County Commissioner Running | Republican | At-Large | Union County Clerk |
12
Sheriff — countywide
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Corvelli Elected | Sheriff → Running | Democratic | countywide | Union County Sheriff's Office |
| Gerardo Napolitano | Sheriff Running | Republican | countywide | Union County Clerk |
13
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mikie Sherrill Elected | Governor | Democratic | State of New Jersey |
14
Member of the General Assembly — LD-20
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annette Quijano Elected | Member of the General Assembly | Democratic | NJ Division of Elections | |
| Ed Rodriguez Elected | Member of the General Assembly | Democratic | NJ Division of Elections |
15
State Senator — LD-20
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Cryan Elected | State Senator | Democratic | NJ Division of Elections |
16
U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andy Kim Elected | U.S. Senator | Democratic | @unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0) | |
| Cory A. Booker ✉️ Elected | U.S. Senator → Running | Democratic | @unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0) | |
| Joanne Kuniansky ✉️ | U.S. Senator Running | Socialist Workers Party | New Jersey Division of Elections | |
| Justin Murphy ✉️ | U.S. Senator Running | Republican | New Jersey Division of Elections | |
| Veronica Fernandez ✉️ | U.S. Senator Running | End the Corruption! | New Jersey Division of Elections |
17
U.S. Representative — NJ-8
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Menendez ✉️ Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Democratic | house.gov | |
| Aristotle Eliopoulos | U.S. Representative Running | Working Families Matter | Union County Clerk | |
| Craig Honts ✉️ | U.S. Representative Running | Socialist Workers Party | Union County Clerk | |
| Da'Shone Hughey | U.S. Representative Running | We the People | Union County Clerk |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Candidates: Union County Clerk's 'Candidate List for the General Election, November 3, 2026' (dated 9/3/2026, Deputy Clerk Clara C. Fernández; https://unioncountyvotes.com, robots 'Crawl-delay: 30' honoured), cross-checked for U.S. Senate and NJ-8 against the NJ Division of Elections official lists (Senate 07/27/2026; House 09/04/2026) — names agree (the county list prints 'Rob Menendez', the state list 'ROB MENENDEZ *'). The county list puts all of Elizabeth in NJ-8. Both lists print candidates' home addresses — none copied. Emails kept only where plainly campaign or official (bookerteam@corybooker.com, info@robmenendez.com, info@veronicaforsenate.com, Jerseyjustin4senate@, njswpcampaign@, councilmantorres@, Isaias.rivera.councilman@; @elizabethnj.org addresses from the city page); every other printed address (yahoo/aol/hotmail/protonmail/personal gmail, a law-firm and a business address) left null. Write-ins skipped; 'No Nomination Made' (Republican) for NJ-8 and for Wards 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
- City of Elizabeth: Mayor and a nine-member City Council (six wards + three at-large), PARTISAN, elected in November on the county ballot. 2026 ballot: all six ward seats (4-year terms) and one at-large seat for an UNEXPIRED term. Incumbents running: Torres (W1), Kiniery (W3), Cedeño (W4), Gallman (W5), Mazza (W6), Gonzalez Lugo (at-large, unexpired; she holds the third at-large seat won in Nov 2024 by Frank J. Cuesta per the county results — how the vacancy arose was not read). Ward 2: Nelson Gonzalez is on the council page but not on the ballot; Isaias J. Rivera (Dem; an Elizabeth Board of Education member elected Nov 2025 per the county results) v Glenn Maldonado (Rep). Ward 6 adds Janei Holder (Ind, 'Leadership That Listens'); at-large adds John Alves (Rep). Mayor Bollwage and at-large Perkins-Auguste and Grova (Council President) were elected Nov 2024 — next Mayor/at-large election November 2028; ward seats next 2030.
- Council members, titles, official photos and the two @elizabethnj.org emails from https://www.elizabethnj.org/215/City-Council (read 2026-11-01; the page prints phone numbers — not copied); Mayor from /271/Our-Mayor. elizabethnj.org's robots.txt has a group naming ClaudeBot (same disallows as '*', no crawl-delay) — only allowed pages read. /Copyright: 'All content © 2006-2026 Elizabeth, NJ and its representatives. All rights reserved.' — photos linked, not copied.
- Union County: nine at-large County Commissioners from https://ucnj.org/commissioners/ (2026 Board; Chairman Joseph Bodek, Vice Chair Rebecca Williams); party from the county's official Nov 2024 and Nov 2025 results (Clarity ENR summary JSON, results.enr.clarityelections.com — robots.txt 404). Commissioners recorded at level 'municipal' with jurisdiction kind 'county' (the mapping has no county level). Sheriff Peter Corvelli (sheriff page) is running again. County Clerk: Joanne Rajoppi (re-elected Nov 2025 per the county results) died in July 2026 — ucnj.org press release 2026-07-16 'Statement from Union County on the passing of Union County Clerk Joanne Rajoppi' (title read from the sitemap, release not opened); the seat is on the 2026 ballot (5-year term, Tai Cooper Dem v Jimmy Diaz, Jr. Rep) and Deputy Clerk Clara C. Fernández signs the lists. Nobody recorded as sitting Clerk.
- State: whole city in Legislative District 20 (Census geocoder at City Hall, 50 Winfield Scott Plaza, and all 38 points of an 8x8 grid that fell inside 'Elizabeth city'). Senator Joseph Cryan from the Division of Elections' certified 2023 State Senate results; Assemblymembers Annette Quijano and Ed Rodriguez from the 2025 General Assembly District 20 results (Elizabeth City: Quijano 13,755, Rodriguez 13,428, Bucco 4,253). The NJ Legislature (www.njleg.state.nj.us, www.njleg.gov, pub.njleg.gov) refused connections even for robots.txt — not bypassed; current tenure not confirmed on member pages. No state legislative contest in 2026 (Senate and Assembly next November 2027); Governor Mikie Sherrill (nj.gov/governor) next elected 2029.
- Federal: Senators Booker and Kim from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (senate.gov not tried — 403 to robots.txt in earlier NJ runs); Rep. Robert Menendez (NJ-8) from house.gov/representatives, read 2026-11-01. NJ-8 Republican: 'No Nomination Made'.
- Also on Elizabeth's Nov 3 ballot but not recorded as people (school level skipped by the US brief): Elizabeth Board of Education, 3-year term, vote for three — Maria Z. Carvalho, Jerry D. Jacobs, Rosa E. Moreno Ortega (positions 1-1..1-3) and Maria Lorenz (2-1), from the Union County Clerk's School Board 2026 Candidate List (8/12/2026). Statewide or county public questions, if any, were not read (sample ballots not opened).
- No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null for everyone — no candidate statements read. Ballotpedia/Wikipedia/news not used. 0 web searches.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-11-01. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- Union County Clerk — Candidate List for the General Election, November 3, 2026 (dated 9/3/2026, Deputy Clerk Clara C. Fernández) 13
- County of Union — Union County Board of County Commissioners (page lists the 2026 Board) 9
- City of Elizabeth — City Council 9
- New Jersey Division of Elections — Official List, Candidates for US Senate, General Election 11/03/2026 (dated 07/27/2026) 3
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0) 1
- NJ Division of Elections — 2025 Official General Election Results, General Assembly, 20th Legislative District (Annette Quijano Democratic 35,616; Carmen Bucco Republican 11,795) 1
- NJ Division of Elections — 2025 Official General Election Results, General Assembly, 20th Legislative District (Ed Rodriguez Democratic 35,139; Carmen Bucco Republican 11,795) 1
- City of Elizabeth — Our Mayor ('first elected in 1992 and has been reelected multiple times, most recently in 2024') 1
- NJ Division of Elections — Official List, Candidates for State Senate, General Election 11/07/2023 (dated 12/06/2023): JOSEPH CRYAN (w) * Democratic 12,473 v Carmen Bucco Republican 4,224 1
- State of New Jersey — Office of the Governor 1
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0) — senate.gov returned 403 to robots.txt in earlier NJ runs; not re-tried 1
- Union County Sheriff's Office — 'Welcome Peter Corvelli, Jr., Union County Sheriff' 1
- house.gov — Directory of Representatives (New Jersey 8th) 1