Who is on the ballot in 08542?

Adam Hamawy is a Princeton plastic and reconstructive surgeon and retired Army lieutenant colonel who served as a combat trauma surgeon, attending Rutgers on an ROTC scholarship, per the New Jersey Monitor. He was part of the medical team that treated Tammy Duckworth after her helicopter was shot down in Iraq, per The Hill. He would be New Jersey's first Muslim member of Congress, per the New Jersey Monitor.

Gregg Mele is an attorney practicing corporate law, contracts, securities, real estate, and estate planning who previously worked on Wall Street and has taught graduate courses in law and economics, per the New Jersey Globe. A lifelong New Jersey resident raised by blue-collar parents, he was the only Republican to file in the district and receives his first major-party nomination.

Andres Jinete is the Green Party nominee for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. Jinete is a union member and community organizer who has organized in Bound Brook and central New Jersey around tenants' rights, seniors and working families, according to the campaign site. Jinete announced the candidacy in December 2025 and remained on the ballot after a petition challenge from an independent candidate did not succeed, per New Jersey Globe.

Winston Jordan is an independent candidate for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. Jordan is an IT executive and DevOps team leader based in Lambertville, according to a LinkedIn profile. Jordan's campaign describes itself as a zero-donor effort that takes no corporate money, PAC money or wealthy-donor funding, per the campaign site. Winston Jordan appears on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. House, NJ-12, per the county elections office's certified candidate list.

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.