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2018 Federal Congress Elections

Every 2 years there are midterm elections where 1/3 of the Senate (33 seats) and all the House 435 seats are at stake. Currently the Senate is 51R and 49D and the House is 237R and 193D.
The 2018 Midterm elections have been defined as the most important elections of the last 50 years by many experts. We agree because the Trump presidency is threatning the democratic institutions and processes and we should request that Congress perform its check & balance duty versus the administration. In order to empower the Congress we need to take the Congress GOP majority away. The nationwide goal is to elect a Democratic majority to the House (need 24 seats) and Senate (1 seat but a few Dem seats at risk).
There are countless topics that we think Democratic lawmakers can (and should) work if we can elect them to Congress: defend democracy (institutions, processes, independent judiciary, free press), taxes and wages ($15 minimum wage, unions), healthcare, immigration, environment protection, gun control, criminal justice, infrastructure, education and more.

Considering the importance of this election for America, we decided to provide the grassroots activism with data and tools that can help "navigate" and build a robust "Blue Wave"!
Blue Compass aims at helping progressive candidates as well as any citizens to understand better the electoral data, by congressional district, county, town and precinct.

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Below are the at glance results of the 2018 Congressional Elections
Population=Census Estimate of population 18 years old and over; Turnout = Total Votes / Population

District	Dem Candidate	Dem Votes	%	Rep Candidate	Rep Votes	%	Other Votes	%	Shift	Total Votes	Population	Turnout Pop	Registered Voters	Reg Voters%	Turnout Reg Voters
NJ01	Donald Norcross	169,628	64.39%	Paul Dilks	87,617	33.26%	6,173	2.34%	D+8	263,418	566,702	46.48%	516,391	91.12%	51.01%
NJ02	Jeff Van Drew	136,685	52.90%	Seth Grossman	116,866	45.23%	4,812	1.86%	D+28	258,363	561,659	46.00%	499,199	88.88%	51.76%
NJ03	Andy Kim	153,473	51.74%	Tom MacArthur	149,500	48.72%	3,902	1.27%	D+22	306,875	593,136	51.74%	532,137	89.72%	57.67%
NJ04	Joshua Welle	126,766	43.07%	Chris Smith	163,065	55.40%	4,517	1.53%	D+18	294,348	576,584	51.05%	528146	91.60%	55.73%
NJ05	Josh Gottheimer	169,546	56.17%	John McCann	128,255	42.49%	4,022	1.33%	D+7	301,823	579,702	52.07%	525,842	90.71%	57.40%
NJ06	Frank Pallone	140,752	63.63%	Richard Pezzullo	80,443	36.37%	0		R+2	221,195	583,153	37.93%	456,727	78.32%	48.43%
NJ07	Tom Malinowski	166,985	51.74%	Leonard Lance	150,785	46.72%	4,972	1.54%	D+16	322,742	584,209	52.24%	541,973	92.77%	59.55%
NJ08	Albio Sires	119,881	78.12%	John Muniz	28,725	18.72%	4,849	3.16%	0	153,455	610,595	25.13%	390,313	63.92%	39.32%
NJ09	Bill Pascrell	140,832	70.27%	Eric Fisher	57,854	28.87%	1,730	0.86%	R+1	200,416	600,702	33.36%	443,388	73.81%	45.20%
NJ10	Donald Payne Jr.	175,253	87.56%	Agha Khan	20,191	10.09%	4,715	2.36%	D+3	200,159	598,914	33.42%	461,122	76.99%	43.41%
NJ11	Mikie Sherrill	183,684	56.77%	Jay Webber	136,322	42.13%	3,568	1.10%	D+33	323,574	579,362	55.85%	557,552	96.24%	58.03%
NJ12	Bonnie Watson Coleman	173,334	68.68%	Daryl Kipnis	79,041	31.32%	0		D+6	252,375	592,130	42.62%	484,642	81.85%	52.07%
Total		1,856,819	59.92%		1,198,664	38.68%	43,260	1.40%		3,098,743	7,026,848	44.10%	5,937,432	84.50%	52.19%

2016 - 2018

In 2018 Midterm elections there are a growing number of "tossup" Congressional Districts (33 House and 2 Senate). Cook Political Report

At this time we collected data only for NJ07 district.

Below are also all the NJ Congressional Districts with the likely outcome (from "fivethirtyeight"):

NJ07 Lean D+1.6

NJ map forecast after November 6

Details on NJ Congress 2019 Elections
NJ will hold State Assembly elections in 2019. The current Legistlative Districts "distribution" by party is:

Party	Districts	Number of Districts
Democrat	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38	27
Republican	8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 39, 40	13

We are very open to assist other districts nationwide.
We also publish a quick reference sheet to help activists with arguments pro Democratic candidates and against the WH occupant.
This reference sheet has a section with Tom Malinowski (NJ07 Democratic candidate) position on key topics (information compiled by us, not provided by the candidate).