Election Day is here again, and if there's one thing New Jersey loves almost as much as arguing about pork roll versus Taylor ham, it's showing up to vote. Well, some of us more than others.

Statewide, about 65% of registered voters cast a ballot in the 2024 presidential election. In the 2025 race for governor, turnout hit 51%, which was the highest for a New Jersey governor's race in more than 20 years. That's pretty solid. But in a handful of towns, those numbers are nowhere near the ceiling.

We dug into the official, certified turnout numbers from the New Jersey Division of Elections for all 564 of the state's municipalities. We looked at both the 2024 presidential election and the 2025 governor's race, then ranked towns by their average turnout across the two. That way, a town had to show up in a big presidential year AND an off-year election to make the list.

So what do these towns have in common? Many are smaller, tight-knit communities where people know their neighbors, attend council meetings, and treat Election Day like a civic holiday. Some of the top turnout towns in the state topped 77% in 2024. That's more than three out of every four registered voters.

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How we ranked them

All numbers come from the official, certified "Registered Voters and Ballots Cast" reports published by the New Jersey Division of Elections for the November 5, 2024 general election and the November 4, 2025 general election.

• Turnout = ballots cast divided by registered voters, for each municipality.
• Final score = the average of each town's 2024 and 2025 turnout. Using two elections rewards towns that vote consistently, not just in a hot presidential year.
• Size cutoff: towns needed at least 2,500 registered voters to qualify. Tiny boroughs with a few hundred voters can swing wildly from one election to the next, so 121 of the state's smallest municipalities were left out. That still leaves 443 towns in the running.

One quirk worth knowing: turnout here is measured against registered voters, not all adults. Towns that keep tidier voter rolls can look a bit better on paper. And this ranking says nothing about how anyone voted, only how many people showed up.

Why so many small towns?

That's not because small towns automatically vote more. Towns with 2,500 to 5,000 voters and towns with 5,000 to 10,000 voters actually have the same typical turnout, about 63%. Smaller towns just swing more from election to election, so they're more likely to land at the very top (and the very bottom). New Jersey also simply has a lot of small towns, so they'd fill out almost any top 25.

The bigger divide is between suburbs and cities. None of the 69 towns with 25,000 or more registered voters made our top 25, and big cities like Newark, Paterson, Trenton, and Camden sit near the bottom. Towns where people own their homes, stay put for decades, and know their neighbors tend to vote more.

This isn't about who people voted for. It's about who actually showed up. Whether you're voting early, by mail, or heading to the polls in person this year, these 25 towns set the bar.

Here are the 25 New Jersey towns with the highest voter turnout.