Candidates across the board for New Jersey governor are struggling with name recognition, leaving an open — and crowded — playing field nearly five months before the primary election, new poll numbers suggest.

With more than 10 candidates running this year to become New Jersey’s next governor, a new poll shows Republican Jack Ciattarelli and Democrat Mikie Sherrill as the early front-runners less than six months to the big primary election. Still, many, many voters still don’t know who they want to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy.

In the race to be New Jersey's next governor, no clear Democratic frontrunner has materialized in early polling. On the Republican side, name recognition helped give an early bump to former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli.

The Democratic field in the New Jersey gubernatorial race appears wide open with a half dozen major candidates in contention, according to an early survey of the race. The Emerson College

Money talks. When voters elect the next iteration of New Jersey’s General Assembly this June and November, they will do so in elections without the county

With less than five months to go until the primary election, plenty of New Jersey voters have no idea who they think should be the next governor of New Jersey.

Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop has filed a complaint with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission claiming that one of his opponents, Mikie

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“Governor Murphy is eight points more popular among women than men, 48% to 40%. The governor has a 75% favorable rating among Democratic voters, dropping to 27% of independents and 14% of Republicans,” said Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling.