Who is on the ballot in 07311?

Rob Menendez is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district, elected in 2022, and serves on Energy and Commerce after earlier service on Transportation and Infrastructure, where he advocated for the Gateway Program, per his campaign site. Before Congress he was a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey commissioner chairing its Governance and Ethics Committee. He lives in Jersey City, per the Hudson Reporter.

Aristotle 'Ari' Eliopoulos is a Jersey City public school teacher and union representative, born and raised in Jersey City as the son of Greek immigrant small-business owners, per his campaign site and the New Jersey Globe. A registered Republican running on an independent line.

Craig Honts is the Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey's 8th Congressional District, covering most of Hudson County, part of Newark and Elizabeth. Honts is a factory worker and member of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union, according to The Militant. Honts joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1971 after taking part in protests over the killing of Kent State University students who were demonstrating against the Vietnam War, per Patch. Craig Honts appears on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. House, NJ-8, per the county elections office's certified candidate list. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.

Hughey is an entrepreneur, educator, author, and technology innovator focused on artificial intelligence, robotics, workforce training, and education reform, per the campaign site. Hughey is running as an independent candidate for New Jersey's 8th District to build a future ready workforce and expand economic opportunity, per the campaign site.

Cory Booker is New Jersey's sitting U.S. senator, serving since 2013, per the campaign site. He attended Stanford University on a football scholarship, studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and graduated from Yale Law School in 1997, per the campaign site. He lived in Newark's Central Ward and later served as a tenant lawyer, city councilman and mayor of Newark, per the campaign site. The campaign site says he helped write and pass the First Step Act in 2018. The campaign site lists no issues as of October 15, 2026.

Justin Murphy is a self-employed small business owner from Tabernacle in Burlington County's Pine Barrens, per his campaign site and the New Jersey Globe. He served four years in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Comte De Grasse, including six months in the Persian Gulf, per WHYY, and served one term on the Tabernacle Township Committee after his 2000 election, per the New Jersey Globe.

Veronica Fernandez is an independent candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey, running under the slogan "End the Corruption." A lifelong New Jersey resident, Fernandez co-owns a small commercial electrical contracting business with her husband, according to the campaign site. Fernandez's platform centers on campaign finance reform, affordability and answering to constituents rather than party leadership.

Joanne Kuniansky is the Socialist Workers Party nominee for U.S. Senate from New Jersey. Kuniansky joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1977 and has worked in oil refineries, railroads, meatpacking and as a Walmart deli worker, according to Insider NJ. No campaign website was found as of October 20, 2026.

Jeffrey Dublin is the incumbent Hudson County Register of Deeds and Mortgages, elected to the office in 2021 after previously serving on the Hudson County Board of Freeholders from 2004 to 2014, per Our Campaigns and the New Jersey Globe. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.

Qamar Raza is a professor at Hudson County Community College and the Republican nominee for Hudson County Register of Deeds and Mortgages, per the New Jersey Globe. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.