UNION CITY, N.J. — New Jersey state officials report that Joanne Kuniansky, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate, got 27,432 votes, more than double the total she was credited with when she ran for governor in 2025 and for U.S. Senate in 2024.
Craig Honts, the SWP’s candidate for U.S. Congress in the 8th District, got 5,222 votes, more than double the amount he got in the district the last time the party ran there.
“We began our campaigns walking the picket lines of striking New York nurses and finished by joining Teamsters Local 877 members fighting a lockout at Phillips 66 Bayway Refinery in Linden,” Honts told a Nov. 7 Militant Labor Forum here. The SWP candidates joined actions to protest Washington’s blockade of Cuba, in defense of immigrant workers and against the rising assaults on Jews. Because they were on the ballot, they were able to garner more news coverage.
“The increasing vote for the SWP reflects the growing number of workers looking for a political alternative because they’re convinced neither of the bosses’ two main capitalist parties are capable of solving the problems workers face,” Kuniansky said. As SWP members campaigned, they found “serious interest in discussing the only way to halt the march of Washington and other capitalist powers toward another world war is by the working class taking power into our own hands.”