NJ-09 New Jersey's 9th District


Candidate

Predicted Vote %

Predicted Win %

Bill Pascrell Jr.

72.5%

100.0%

Eric P. Fisher

27.5%

0.0%

District Profile Last Updated: Oct. 5, 2018, 11:47 a.m.

New Jersey’s 9th district is located in northeastern New Jersey. It contains parts of Bergen, Hudson, and Passaic County. It has voted Democratic in congressional elections since 1982 and in recent presidential elections. The Democratic incumbent has received at least 69% of the two-party vote in the past three elections. The district is 100% urban. Its population is 36.3% Caucasian, 11.3% African American, 13.8% Asian, 34.7% Hispanic, and 0.4% Native American.
The incumbent of this race is Democrat Bill Pascrell Jr. He has served in the New Jersey General Assembly and the mayor of Paterson. His key issues are obtaining full funding for the Traumatic Brain Injury Act and other brain injury research programs, environmental protection, and transportation funds. The Republican candidate is Eric P. Fisher. He ran unsuccessfully in the 2017 NJ Senate Republican primary election. 


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