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Every board here asks which party holds a seat when the next term begins. The Senate race, for the state's Class II Senate seat, is priced by Kalshi and Polymarket, and each House district carries a contract of the same shape, from the 1st District, which covers all of Camden County, to the 12th District across parts of Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset and Union counties. Three of the seats were held by a Republican in the 119th Congress, the 2nd, the 4th and the 7th, and on September 28, 2026 the 7th District board had drawn more trading than any other New Jersey board. Kalshi alone runs a margin-of-victory ladder on the Senate race and turnout ladders on the House seats, and those stay on the exchange. Prices sit on each board's page.
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County clerks began mailing ballots for the November 3, 2026 general election on September 19; registration closes October 13; early voting runs from October 24 through November 1; polls are open 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Election Day. The nominees were fixed at the June 2 primary and certified on July 27, and August 27 was the last day to fill a vacancy on a party line, though every contract reads party, not person. County boards canvass on November 18, the Board of State Canvassers certifies on or before December 3, and the new terms begin at noon on January 3, 2027, which Kalshi's contracts are written to. A debate, a poll, a rating change or the campaign-finance reports due October 15 and October 22 reprice a district between those dates. The governor's office, which Mikie Sherrill has held since January 20, 2026, is not priced here; the certified list for November 3 covers the federal offices.
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A contract pays a fixed amount if its party takes the seat and nothing otherwise, so the price reads as the probability the market implies, shown as a percentage, never in cents. Both exchanges list every board here, and each book's figure is printed on its own. Settlement is fixed before the first trade and differs by book: Kalshi pays on the party of the person sworn in for the term beginning in 2027 and can settle earlier on a media consensus; Polymarket's House contracts pay on the party of the winner once the races are conclusively called, and its Senate contract waits for the Associated Press, Fox News and NBC to name the same winner, or for the state's certification. What New Jersey's regulator and courts have said about the exchanges is on the legal status page.