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2024 New Jersey's 10th congressional district special election

The 2024 New Jersey's 10th congressional district special election was held on September 18, 2024, to fill the vacant seat in New Jersey's 10th congressional district. The winner will serve in the United States House of Representatives for the remainder of the 118th United States Congress. The seat became vacant on April 24, 2024, when Donald Payne Jr. died following a heart attack related to complications from diabetes. The urban district is considered a safely Democratic seat; Payne Jr. had won all 7 bids for this seat with at least 77.6% of the vote.

On May 3, Governor Phil Murphy scheduled the special election for September 18, with primaries being held on July 16. This was the first non-November special election for a vacant House seat in New Jersey since 1950 which Republican William Widnall won after incumbent Representative J. Parnell Thomas was convicted on corruption charges. This was the first time since 1989 where no one from the Payne family represented this district.

LaMonica McIver, president of the Newark Municipal Council (2022–present) from the Central Ward (2018–present)
Derek Armstead, mayor of Linden (2014–present) and Linden Democratic municipal chair
Brittany Claybrooks, former East Orange city councilor (2019–2023)
John Flora, teacher and candidate for this district in 2020
Darryl Godfrey, COO of the New Jersey Redevelopment Authority
Alberta Gordon, data engineering manager
Eugene Mazo, Rutgers Law School professor and candidate for this district in 2020
Shana Melius, former constituent services staffer to Donald Payne Jr.
Sheila Montague, teacher and candidate for mayor of Newark in 2022
Debra Salters, community activist and independent candidate for New Jersey's 29th assembly district in 2021
Jerry Walker, Hudson County commissioner from the 3rd district (2018–present) and candidate for mayor of Jersey City in 2013
Ras Baraka, mayor of Newark (2014–present) (running for governor in 2025, endorsed McIver)
Ronald Slaughter, pastor (endorsed McIver)

Campaign finance reports as of June 26, 2024
Derek Armstead (D)	$51,325	$18,875	$32,449
Brittany Claybrooks (D)	$9,036	$6,637	$2,398
Darryl Godfrey (D)	$67,865	$59,667	$8,197
LaMonica McIver (D)	$90,833	$33,985	$56,847
Shana Melius (D)	$13,126	$9,755	$4,871

Results by county: .mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{} McIver 40–50% 50–60% Walker 40–50%

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	12,507	47.4
	Democratic	3,596	13.6
	Democratic	2,568	9.7
	Democratic	1,815	6.9
	Democratic	1,377	5.2
	Democratic	1,196	4.5
	Democratic	966	3.7
	Democratic	756	2.9
	Democratic	684	2.6
	Democratic	586	2.2
	Democratic	316	1.2
26,367	100.0

Carmen Bucco, businessman, perennial candidate, and nominee for this seat in the regular 2024 election

Campaign finance reports as of June 30, 2024
Carmen Bucco (R)	$16,790	$7,231	$9,559

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	2,015	100.0
2,015	100.0

Russell Jenkins (One For All...), financial advisor
Rayfield Morton (Creating Real Progress), former Orange city councilor

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}±%
	Democratic	27,402	81.39%	+3.75%
	Republican	5,258	15.62%	−6.42%
	One For All...	530	1.57%	N/A
	Creating Real Progress	476	1.41%	N/A
33,666	100.00%

County	LaMonica McIverDemocratic	Carmen BuccoRepublican	Various candidatesOther parties	Margin	Total votes cast
Essex (part)	16,649	86.4%	1,950	10.1%	661	3.5%	14,699	76.3%	19,260
Hudson (part)	3,349	83.5%	516	12.9%	147	3.6%	2,833	70.6%	4,012
Union (part)	7,404	71.2%	2,792	26.7%	198	2.1%	4,612	44.5%	10,394

Official campaign websites

Carmen Bucco (R)
LaMonica McIver (D)

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