31st Legislative District (New Jersey)


's 31st Legislative District is one of 40 districts that make up the map for the New Jersey Legislature. It covers the Hudson County municipalities of Bayonne and most of Jersey City.

Demographic information

As of the 2010 United States Census, the district had a population of 214,973, of whom 167,134 were of voting age. The racial makeup of the district was 85,308 White, 59,683 African American, 882 Native American, 36,582 Asian, 104 Pacific Islander, 23,557 from some other race, and 8,857 from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 52,041 of the population.
The district had 142,477 registered voters as of 2020, of whom 51,382 were registered as unaffiliated, 76,319 were registered as Democrats, 12,064 were registered as Republicans, and 2,712 were registered to other parties.

Political representation

The district is represented for the 2020–2021 Legislative Session in the State Senate by Sandra Bolden Cunningham and in the General Assembly by Nicholas Chiaravalloti and Angela V. McKnight.

District and election history

Throughout the entire history of the 31st District since 1973, the district always consisted of Bayonne and southern Jersey City. In order to fulfill the requirement that legislative districts be made as equal in population as possible, wards were added and removed as necessary from Jersey City to get the necessary population. As the district was always heavily urban in nature and is closely associated with the Hudson County Democratic machine, no Republican has ever been elected to the district since its creation in 1973; one of nine districts statewide to have never sent a member of another party to the Legislature.

Election results

Senate

Assembly