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New Jersey 2000 vs 2012: county swing

9 of 21 counties moved toward the Republican ticket; 2 changed hands.

Camden County: swing D+4.5Gloucester County: swing R+6.8Passaic County: swing D+9.5Bergen County: swing R+2.4Cape May County: swing R+5.2Essex County: swing D+11.1Hudson County: swing D+11.6Hunterdon County: swing D+1.4Mercer County: swing D+10.2Ocean County: swing R+16.0Salem County: swing R+4.2Somerset County: swing D+8.5Warren County: swing R+1.7Morris County: swing D+0.3Sussex County: swing R+0.6Atlantic County: swing R+2.0Burlington County: swing D+2.7Cumberland County: swing D+5.1Middlesex County: swing D+3.8Monmouth County: swing R+9.7Union County: swing D+10.7
Red: toward the Republican ticket. Blue: toward the Democratic ticket.
County20002012SwingVotes 2000Votes 2012
Ocean County R+1.6 R+17.6 R+16.0 216,393 251,275
Monmouth County flipped D+4.7 R+5.0 R+9.7 262,141 283,978
Gloucester County D+17.5 D+10.7 R+6.8 107,298 135,186
Cape May County R+3.4 R+8.6 R+5.2 47,594 47,931
Salem County D+5.5 D+1.3 R+4.2 26,972 29,501
Bergen County D+13.7 D+11.3 R+2.4 366,721 385,407
Atlantic County D+18.9 D+16.9 R+2.0 91,102 113,179
Warren County R+13.8 R+15.5 R+1.7 40,801 45,270
Sussex County R+20.8 R+21.4 R+0.6 57,490 67,933
Morris County R+11.2 R+10.9 D+0.3 206,508 227,392
Hunterdon County R+19.2 R+17.8 D+1.4 56,455 66,494
Burlington County D+15.3 D+18.0 D+2.7 177,541 215,936
Middlesex County D+23.8 D+27.6 D+3.8 258,849 301,315
Camden County D+32.9 D+37.4 D+4.5 196,861 225,428
Cumberland County D+19.1 D+24.2 D+5.1 48,684 55,292
Somerset County flipped R+2.9 D+5.6 D+8.5 120,377 142,922
Passaic County D+18.7 D+28.2 D+9.5 156,573 181,988
Mercer County D+27.0 D+37.2 D+10.2 135,559 153,511
Union County D+23.3 D+34.0 D+10.7 186,373 209,831
Essex County D+45.7 D+56.8 D+11.1 259,573 303,019
Hudson County D+44.4 D+56.0 D+11.6 167,361 197,504

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data