{"id":391951,"date":"2026-11-03T10:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T10:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391951\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T10:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T10:18:09","slug":"election-day-2026-what-voters-need-to-know-in-ny-nj-and-ct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391951\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day 2026: What voters need to know in NY, NJ and CT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">It&#8217;s Election Day and there are several big races for Tri-State voters to make their voices heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In one of the most-watched races, Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul and Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman are running for governor of New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There is also a governor&#8217;s race in Connecticut where Democrat Ned Lamont is seeking a third term in office as he runs against Republican Ryan Fazio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">And in New Jersey, there is a U.S. Senate race between incumbent Democrat Cory Booker and Republican challenger Justin Murphy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There are also several key House races to watch. Competitive races in some of New York&#8217;s wealthiest congressional districts \u2014 the 3rd, 4th and 17th \u2014 could help decide whether Democrats regain control over the U.S. House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The elections could ultimately determine how effective President Donald Trump&#8217;s agenda is in the back half of his second term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Polling sites open at 6 a.m. across the Tri-State. They close at 9 p.m. in New York and an hour earlier at 8 p.m. in New Jersey and Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">We will have results on Election Night streaming on ABC 7 and throughout the evening on Channel 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Election Day and there are several big races for Tri-State voters to make their voices heard. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[141719,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-391951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-141719","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}