Newark: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Class 2: Booker seat); U.S. Representative for NJ-8 and NJ-10; Essex County Executive; four at-large Essex County Commissioners and one district commissioner (Districts 1, 2 or 3 depending on the Newark ballot style). No Governor (next 2029), no State Senate (next 2027) and no General Assembly (next 2027) contest on Newark's ballot; no Newark municipal office (the May 12, 2026 nonpartisan election already filled Mayor and all 9 council seats). Newark's school board is elected in April, not November..

Holding office18

the sitting council

On the ballot10

3 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Newark is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): New Jersey's 10th congressional district (city hall); the city is split between NJ-10 and NJ-8 — LaMonica McIver (Democratic)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Ras J. Baraka Elected	Mayor	Independent		Essex County Clerk

Council Member

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Amina Bey ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	Central Ward	City of Newark
Anibal Ramos, Jr. ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	North Ward	City of Newark
C. Lawrence Crump ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	At-Large	City of Newark
Donna Jackson ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	At-Large	City of Newark
Dupré L. Kelly ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	West Ward	City of Newark
Louise Scott-Rountree ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	At-Large	City of Newark
Michael J. Silva ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	East Ward	City of Newark
Patrick O. Council ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	South Ward	City of Newark

Council President

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Luis A. Quintana ✉️ Elected	Council President	Independent	At-Large	City of Newark

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Mikie Sherrill Elected	Governor	Democratic		Office of New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill

Member of the General Assembly — LD-29

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Eliana Pintor Marin Elected	Member of the General Assembly	Democratic		New Jersey Division of Elections
Shanique Speight Elected	Member of the General Assembly	Democratic		New Jersey Division of Elections

State Senator — LD-29

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
M. Teresa Ruiz Elected	State Senator	Democratic		New Jersey Division of Elections

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	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	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

U.S. Representative — NJ-8

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Robert Menendez Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic	U.S. House of Representatives
Aristotle Eliopoulos	U.S. Representative Running	Independent	New Jersey Division of Elections
Craig Honts	U.S. Representative Running	Socialist Workers	New Jersey Division of Elections
Da'Shone Hughey	U.S. Representative Running	We the People	New Jersey Division of Elections

U.S. Representative — NJ-10

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
LaMonica McIver Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives
Carmen Bucco	U.S. Representative Running	Republican		New Jersey Division of Elections

Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

Candidates: New Jersey Division of Elections official lists — US Senate (dated 07/27/2026) and House of Representatives (dated 09/04/2026) — cross-checked against the Essex County Clerk's 2026 General Election sample ballots (PDF created 2026-09-15; Newark styles 'CD8' and 'CD10 Comm 1/2/3'). Both agree on every name. The state lists print each candidate's address; none copied. Write-ins skipped.
Essex County offices on Newark's ballot (not recorded as people, as the level mapping has no county level): County Executive — Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. (Democratic), Maritza Mathews (Republican), Wynnie-Fred Victor Hinds (petition, 'LET'S WYNN THIS!'); Commissioners At Large (vote for 4) — Democratic: Christine McGrath, Abdur R. Yasin, Deborah Engel, Wayne Richardson; Republican: Demetrius Eley, Daniela Ferreira Almeida, Douglas Freeman, Sahwa DeFrank; district commissioner (Democratic only, no Republican nomination): D1 Wilson A. Pichardo, D2 A'Dorian Murray-Thomas, D3 Medinah Muhammad.
Municipal: Newark elects a Mayor and a 9-member Municipal Council (4 at-large, 5 wards) in nonpartisan elections every four years in May; the last was May 12, 2026, terms 7/1/2026–6/30/2030, so the next regular municipal election is May 2030. Council members, the Council President and official emails from newark.legistar.com (People list, read 2026-10-22; it also lists the appointed City Clerk, not recorded). Seats and the Mayor from the Essex County Clerk's May 2026 Newark results (Clarity ENR JSON, last updated 5/20/2026 with 169 of 173 districts). Party left null — the offices are nonpartisan.
Blocked or unreachable (not bypassed, no other user-agent or tool tried): www.newarknj.gov returned a Cloudflare 'Sorry, you have been blocked' page to robots.txt (civicplus.io); www.senate.gov returned HTTP 403 to robots.txt; the NJ Legislature (www.njleg.state.nj.us, www.njleg.gov, pub.njleg.gov) refused connections — state legislators therefore rest on the Division of Elections' certified 2023 Senate and 2025 Assembly results, and their current tenure was not confirmed on a member page.
U.S. Senators from the CC0 @unitedstates congress-legislators dataset; House members, districts and websites from house.gov/representatives (read 2026-10-22). Governor from nj.gov/governor. nj.gov's Legal Statement §F allows copying and distribution of State information unless otherwise stated. No standsFor recorded — no campaign statements were read.
Districts covering the city: 2 congressional (NJ-8, NJ-10) and 2 legislative (LD-28, LD-29), from a 2 km sampling grid on the Census geocoder; a district touching only a sliver of the city could be missed (NJ-11 was not hit).

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.