State Committee

Each party’s State Committee has two members (one man, one woman) elected from each of the 21 counties. It elects the state party chair and directs statewide strategy and fundraising.

County Committees

The traditional center of power in NJ politics. Members are elected at the precinct level within each county; the county chair controls endorsements, organizational support, and patronage. Until 2024, county parties controlled the “county line” — a ballot design that grouped endorsed candidates together and gave them a major primary-day advantage. A 2024 federal court ruling struck this down, so primary ballots are now organized office-by-office, reducing (but not eliminating) county chairs’ influence.

Municipal Committees

The base layer of the party structure — committeepeople elected by voting district within each town, feeding up into the county committee.

Because two independent commissions draw these maps, congressional and legislative district lines don’t align. In practice this asymmetry runs mostly one way: a town can be whole within one legislative district while split across multiple congressional districts (Lacey Township, below, is a real example). The reverse is rare because New Jersey’s constitution bars splitting a municipality across legislative districts unless it holds more than 1/40 of the state’s population — a threshold only Newark and Jersey City clear, and both of those cities are themselves also split congressionally.

Congressional Districts (2022–2031, 12 districts)

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State Legislative Districts (2023–2030, 40 districts)

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Lacey Township is one of 16 New Jersey municipalities split between two congressional districts. It sits wholly within a single legislative district.

	Lacey Township is in…
Congressional	Split between NJ-2 (Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R) and NJ-4 (Rep. Chris Smith, R)
Legislative	District 9 — entirely, not split. Sen. Carmen Amato (R); Assembly members Greg Myhre (R) and Brian Rumpf (R)

Official Lacey Township Congressional Split Map

Source: NJ Division of Elections — shows the precise line dividing Lacey between the 2nd and 4th Congressional Districts.

Lacey Township Voting (Election) Districts

Below the congressional and legislative layers, Lacey Township is itself divided into 18 local election districts (EDs) — the precincts used to assign polling places. These don’t correspond to congressional or legislative lines; they’re purely local voting geography.

Live map, drawn from NJ Office of GIS election district boundaries — hover/click a district for its ED number.