{"id":451721,"date":"2026-02-06T03:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451721\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T03:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:05:07","slug":"new-jersey-house-primary-special-election-2026-live-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451721\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey House Primary Special Election 2026 Live Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/hard-fought-new-jersey-election-kicks-year-democratic-debate-partys-fu-rcna257065\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crowded field of Democratic contenders<\/a> \u2014 including former Rep. Tom Malinowski, Essex County commissioner Brendan Gill, progressive activist Analilia Mejia, former Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way and more \u2014 is competing for the party nomination to fill Gov. Mikie Sherrill&#8217;s old seat in the House. The 11th District is fairly Democratic-leaning, so whoever wins the nomination will be favored in the April 16 special general election against Republican Joe Hathaway, a local mayor who is unopposed for his party&#8217;s nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crowded field of Democratic contenders \u2014 including former Rep. Tom Malinowski, Essex County commissioner Brendan Gill, progressive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-451721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}