New Jersey Has Fewer Gubernatorial Candidates on General Election Ballot This Year Than Any Year Since 1989

This year’s New Jersey gubernatorial election will have seven candidates on the November 7 ballot. That is a smaller number of candidates for that office in the general election than at any time since 1989, when there were six.

The 2017 ballot will have the nominees of the Democratic, Republican, Constitution, Green, and Libertarian Parties, and two independents.