Students in New Jersey, ranging from grades 4-12 voted primarily via electronic ballots. Students submitted votes for General Assembly candidates as well as four questions: whether the Electoral College should be abolished in favor of a direct, popular vote, if online voting should be offered, if voting should be mandatory, and if New Jersey should implement a system of ranked voting.
Students either submitted their ballots individually online or a representative from each participating school district collected the voting results and submitted them via an online form. In total, schools within 26 Legislative Districts participated, with a total of about 12,500 students casting votes.
The color of the Legislative District represents the candidate that received the most votes. Red means both elected candidates were Republican and blue means both elected candidates were Democrat. Purple means the representatives elected by the students are not from the same party (e.g. one Democrat and one Republican). Third party candidates were on the ballot.
Download the Results Report (PDF)
General Assembly Map
Here is the final General Assembly results. The yellow buttons can be clicked on to see total percentages for the top four candidates.
The Current Issues
We asked the students four current issue questions: 1) Should the Electoral College be abolished in favor of a direct, popular vote, 2) Should New Jersey permit online voting, 3) Should voting be mandatory in the United States for registered voters, 4) Should New Jersey’s primaries include ranking of candidates? Below are charts showing results by grade section for all four questions.
