Politics
Hudson County is very favorable for the Democratic Party.
- In the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, John Kerry carried the county by a 35.3% margin over George W. Bush, with Kerry carrying the state by 6.7% over Bush.
- In 2008, Barack Obama won Hudson County by a 46.3% margin over John McCain.
- Democrat Jon Corzine beat Republican Doug Forrester by a 3-to-1 margin in the 2005 gubernatorial race. Both Republican candidates failed to carry even one municipality within the county. Two out of the three statewide elected officials, Governor Corzine and United States Senator Bob Menendez, hail from Hudson County. In the 2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, Corzine received 76,145 votes from Hudson County to Republican Chris Christie's 29,301, but Christie won the state overall, beating Corzine by 3 percentage points statewide.
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