Gloucester County, roughly 305,000 people across 24 municipalities in South Jersey, votes on November 3, 2026. The county seat is Woodbury, and the ballot runs from the statewide U.S. Senate race down to township committee and borough council seats in individual towns. Here's a nonpartisan county guide, with real turnout history, to what Gloucester votes on and why turnout decides the local races.
What's on the ballot in Gloucester County?
Three layers:
- U.S. Senate, statewide: Democratic incumbent Cory Booker vs Republican Justin Murphy, with independent Michael Misseri, per Ballotpedia. Every Gloucester voter shares this race.
- U.S. House. Gloucester is split between two districts. The 1st District, covering part of Gloucester along with Camden and part of Burlington, is held by Democratic incumbent Donald Norcross; another part of the county falls in the 2nd District, per the New Jersey Division of Elections.
- County and municipal offices. County commissioner seats and, across the 24 municipalities, mayoral, township committee, and council races plus school boards. The county clerk publishes the full candidate list and per-town sample ballots.
Gloucester's 24 municipalities: Clayton, Deptford, East Greenwich, Elk, Franklin, Glassboro, Greenwich, Harrison, Logan, Mantua, Monroe, National Park, Newfield, Paulsboro, Pitman, South Harrison, Swedesboro, Washington, Wenonah, West Deptford, Westville, Woodbury, Woodbury Heights, and Woolwich.
What does turnout look like here?
It varies widely by town, and midterm turnout is well below a presidential year. In the last comparable midterm, the 2022 general, Gloucester County turnout was about 45% overall, ranging from roughly 36% in Paulsboro to 67% in Wenonah, with towns like Harrison (51%), Mantua (52%), and Pitman (57%) among the higher and larger townships like Deptford (40%) and Monroe (43%) lower, per the New Jersey Division of Elections. Vote-by-mail made up a substantial share, thousands of ballots countywide. That spread is the whole story for local races: a town's turnout rate, and how much of it comes in early, shapes who wins its council and committee seats.
Why turnout decides Gloucester's local races
Because township committee and council races are decided by small electorates, often a few thousand voters or fewer, and in a midterm that electorate shrinks and skews toward the most motivated. Getting supporters to vote, and to complete the whole ballot rather than stopping at the Senate race, is decisive. With New Jersey's early voting (October 24 to November 1) and widely used vote-by-mail, that turnout work runs for weeks. Gloucester offers early-voting sites in Clayton, Logan, Monroe, Sewell, and Thorofare, and ballot drop boxes in towns including Deptford, Glassboro, Harrison (Mullica Hill), Monroe, Washington, and Woolwich, per the county elections office.
Frequently asked questions
What's on the 2026 ballot in Gloucester County?
The U.S. Senate race (Booker vs Murphy, plus independent Misseri), each voter's U.S. House race (the county is split between the 1st and 2nd districts), county commissioner seats, and municipal races, mayor, township committee, and council, plus school boards across the 24 municipalities.
How many municipalities are in Gloucester County?
Twenty-four, from Deptford, Washington Township, and Monroe among the largest to small boroughs like Wenonah, Newfield, and National Park. Each runs its own municipal races on the 2026 ballot where seats are up.
What was turnout like in Gloucester County?
In the last comparable midterm (2022), county turnout was about 45%, ranging from roughly 36% in Paulsboro to 67% in Wenonah, with substantial vote-by-mail. Midterm turnout runs well below presidential years, which raises the stakes of the turnout operation in local races.
This reflects the cycle as of the date above; candidate lists are finalized by the county clerk. Facts drawn from nonpartisan sources including Ballotpedia, the New Jersey Division of Elections, and the Gloucester County elections office.
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