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U.S. House District 3
2026 New Jersey U.S. House — District 3 — General Election · November 3, 2026
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For GENERAL ELECTION 11/03/2026 Election, * denotes incumbent
Candidate: Ryan Michael Kelly
Office: U.S. House — District 3
Party or ballot slogan: Affordability, Accountability, People
Official list date: 2026-09-04
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For GENERAL ELECTION 11/03/2026 Election, * denotes incumbent
Candidate: Ryan Michael Kelly
Office: U.S. House — District 3
Party or ballot slogan: Affordability, Accountability, People
Official list date: 2026-09-04
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When students leave school without a degree, or graduate into a labor market that doesn’t support repayment, the answer shouldn’t be lifelong debt and penalties. Education should open doors—not trap people financially when the system fails them.
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When students leave school without a degree, or graduate into a labor market that doesn’t support repayment, the answer shouldn’t be lifelong debt and penalties. Education should open doors—not trap people financially when the system fails them.
I spent years as a civil servant, and I approach elected office the same way: the public is the boss. My loyalty is to the people of NJ-03. I will listen first, study the evidence, and work with anyone when it helps the district.
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I spent years as a civil servant, and I approach elected office the same way: the public is the boss. My loyalty is to the people of NJ-03. I will listen first, study the evidence, and work with anyone when it helps the district.
I was first elected to municipal office in New Jersey at age 22, serving on the Lake Como Borough Council. That experience taught me that public service means listening, understanding budgets, answering questions, and being accountable for decisions that affect a community.
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I was first elected to municipal office in New Jersey at age 22, serving on the Lake Como Borough Council. That experience taught me that public service means listening, understanding budgets, answering questions, and being accountable for decisions that affect a community.
That is also where I met my wife, Catherine. We were both teaching in different academic programs and eventually began building our lives together while continuing our graduate and doctoral studies.
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That is also where I met my wife, Catherine. We were both teaching in different academic programs and eventually began building our lives together while continuing our graduate and doctoral studies.
Service was part of my family story long before I entered public life. My grandmother, Nelle Kelly, served as a U.S. Army nurse at the 382nd Station Hospital in Korea shortly after World War II. My father spent more than 27 years on active duty in the United States Air Force, retiring as a colonel after a career in space and missile operations that included senior leadership assignments at NORAD and U.S. Space Command. Both are buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Service was part of my family story long before I entered public life. My grandmother, Nelle Kelly, served as a U.S. Army nurse at the 382nd Station Hospital in Korea shortly after World War II. My father spent more than 27 years on active duty in the United States Air Force, retiring as a colonel after a career in space and missile operations that included senior leadership assignments at NORAD and U.S. Space Command. Both are buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
While attending law school, I volunteered with the Service to Soldiers program, supporting legal-service efforts for servicemembers and military families. I also served as vice president of the school's JAG Corps Club.
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While attending law school, I volunteered with the Service to Soldiers program, supporting legal-service efforts for servicemembers and military families. I also served as vice president of the school's JAG Corps Club.
I’ve spent my career in public service, education, and civil-rights oversight. I’ve seen government at its best—and I’ve seen what happens when institutions stop listening, oversight disappears, and ordinary people are expected to absorb the consequences.
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I’ve spent my career in public service, education, and civil-rights oversight. I’ve seen government at its best—and I’ve seen what happens when institutions stop listening, oversight disappears, and ordinary people are expected to absorb the consequences.
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Focus on policies that lower everyday costs without gimmicks—competition, transparency, and enforcement where markets are failing people.
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Focus on policies that lower everyday costs without gimmicks—competition, transparency, and enforcement where markets are failing people.
I support the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively. Elected officials should stand with working people not only when asking for endorsements, but when workers are organizing and fighting for better wages, benefits, and working conditions.
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I support the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively. Elected officials should stand with working people not only when asking for endorsements, but when workers are organizing and fighting for better wages, benefits, and working conditions.
I support universal, single-payer healthcare. Healthcare should be treated as a public good and a basic guarantee, not something that depends on your employer, income, age, or ability to navigate an insurance bureaucracy.
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I support universal, single-payer healthcare. Healthcare should be treated as a public good and a basic guarantee, not something that depends on your employer, income, age, or ability to navigate an insurance bureaucracy.
We need substantially more affordable housing, including public and social housing, while making sure new development is supported by appropriate infrastructure and thoughtful planning.
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We need substantially more affordable housing, including public and social housing, while making sure new development is supported by appropriate infrastructure and thoughtful planning.
I support shifting resources toward social workers, mental-health professionals, violence prevention, treatment, and community services while focusing law enforcement resources on serious threats and violent crime.
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I support shifting resources toward social workers, mental-health professionals, violence prevention, treatment, and community services while focusing law enforcement resources on serious threats and violent crime.
Support targeted tax relief for working families and small businesses, paired with responsible budgeting and oversight of waste.
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Support targeted tax relief for working families and small businesses, paired with responsible budgeting and oversight of waste.
I oppose so-called Right to Work laws and support stronger federal protections for organizing, a living wage, universal paid parental leave, and policies modeled on the PRO Act.
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I oppose so-called Right to Work laws and support stronger federal protections for organizing, a living wage, universal paid parental leave, and policies modeled on the PRO Act.
My goal is straightforward: every American should have healthcare at least as good as the healthcare members of Congress provide for themselves.
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My goal is straightforward: every American should have healthcare at least as good as the healthcare members of Congress provide for themselves.
I support broadly applicable rent stabilization that permits reasonable increases tied to legitimate costs while protecting tenants from excessive increases.
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I support broadly applicable rent stabilization that permits reasonable increases tied to legitimate costs while protecting tenants from excessive increases.
I believe education is a public good. Public colleges, universities, and nonprofit institutions should be affordable, predictable in cost, and not require decades of debt to access.
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I believe education is a public good. Public colleges, universities, and nonprofit institutions should be affordable, predictable in cost, and not require decades of debt to access.
I support a transition toward clean energy that creates good union jobs and protects workers whose existing jobs are affected through replacement employment, training, income support, and strong labor protections.
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I support a transition toward clean energy that creates good union jobs and protects workers whose existing jobs are affected through replacement employment, training, income support, and strong labor protections.
I support ending cash bail and wealth-based pretrial detention. Limited temporary detention may still be necessary where individualized evidence shows a serious and immediate threat, subject to due process and regular review.
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I support ending cash bail and wealth-based pretrial detention. Limited temporary detention may still be necessary where individualized evidence shows a serious and immediate threat, subject to due process and regular review.
Too much of the gun debate treats those realities as mutually exclusive. I believe we can protect constitutional rights while pursuing practical, evidence-based measures that reduce violence and promote responsible firearm ownership.
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Too much of the gun debate treats those realities as mutually exclusive. I believe we can protect constitutional rights while pursuing practical, evidence-based measures that reduce violence and promote responsible firearm ownership.
I spent more than a decade working in federal civil-rights and civil-liberties oversight. I support strong enforcement, independent oversight, meaningful complaint processes, and proactive examination of disparities in government programs.
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I spent more than a decade working in federal civil-rights and civil-liberties oversight. I support strong enforcement, independent oversight, meaningful complaint processes, and proactive examination of disparities in government programs.
Opposing Right to Work laws
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Opposing Right to Work laws
Protecting reproductive healthcare, contraception, fertility care, and medication abortion
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Protecting reproductive healthcare, contraception, fertility care, and medication abortion
I support Housing First approaches and supportive services. Clearing encampments without a safe and realistic housing alternative does not solve homelessness, and hostile architecture simply makes life harder for people who already have nowhere to go.
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I support Housing First approaches and supportive services. Clearing encampments without a safe and realistic housing alternative does not solve homelessness, and hostile architecture simply makes life harder for people who already have nowhere to go.
I support greater public ownership and democratic accountability of essential utilities, major investment in clean energy including offshore wind and responsible nuclear power, and moving public investment away from fossil fuels.
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I support greater public ownership and democratic accountability of essential utilities, major investment in clean energy including offshore wind and responsible nuclear power, and moving public investment away from fossil fuels.
I support decriminalizing personal drug consumption, expanding harm reduction and treatment, decriminalizing consensual sex work, fair and timely parole, and reducing unnecessary incarceration.
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I support decriminalizing personal drug consumption, expanding harm reduction and treatment, decriminalizing consensual sex work, fair and timely parole, and reducing unnecessary incarceration.
I strongly support the Second Amendment and the right of law-abiding Americans to own firearms. I have been a firearm owner and a life member of the NRA, and I understand the importance many Americans place on responsible gun ownership.
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I strongly support the Second Amendment and the right of law-abiding Americans to own firearms. I have been a firearm owner and a life member of the NRA, and I understand the importance many Americans place on responsible gun ownership.
I support strong federal protections for reproductive freedom, including abortion access, contraception, fertility care, medication abortion, maternal healthcare, and prenatal and postnatal care.
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I support strong federal protections for reproductive freedom, including abortion access, contraception, fertility care, medication abortion, maternal healthcare, and prenatal and postnatal care.
Protecting workers from retaliation for organizing
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Protecting workers from retaliation for organizing
Expanding mental-health, primary-care, and preventive services
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Expanding mental-health, primary-care, and preventive services
Using federal property, financing, and incentives to expand affordable housing
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Using federal property, financing, and incentives to expand affordable housing
Long term, we should reduce the need for loans altogether by controlling tuition growth, increasing public investment in education, and aligning costs with real economic outcomes.
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Long term, we should reduce the need for loans altogether by controlling tuition growth, increasing public investment in education, and aligning costs with real economic outcomes.
Expanding clean energy while protecting reliability and affordability
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Expanding clean energy while protecting reliability and affordability
Fair parole, reentry support, and alternatives to incarceration
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Fair parole, reentry support, and alternatives to incarceration
I also support expanded background checks, secure firearm storage, community-based violence prevention, suicide prevention, and Extreme Risk Protection Orders with strong due-process protections.
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I also support expanded background checks, secure firearm storage, community-based violence prevention, suicide prevention, and Extreme Risk Protection Orders with strong due-process protections.
I support LGBTQ+ equality, including protections against discrimination in employment, housing, education, healthcare, and public services. Transgender people deserve the same freedom, dignity, healthcare, and equal protection as everyone else.
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I support LGBTQ+ equality, including protections against discrimination in employment, housing, education, healthcare, and public services. Transgender people deserve the same freedom, dignity, healthcare, and equal protection as everyone else.
Policies that reduce reliance on debt rather than simply shifting repayment terms
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Policies that reduce reliance on debt rather than simply shifting repayment terms
Police accountability, de-escalation, transparency, and civil-rights protections
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Police accountability, de-escalation, transparency, and civil-rights protections
I do not support a broad ban on commonly owned firearms, and I do not support reinstating the federal assault-weapons ban. I believe policy should focus on preventing dangerous people and dangerous situations from becoming tragedies while respecting the rights of responsible gun owners.
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I do not support a broad ban on commonly owned firearms, and I do not support reinstating the federal assault-weapons ban. I believe policy should focus on preventing dangerous people and dangerous situations from becoming tragedies while respecting the rights of responsible gun owners.
I support stronger ADA and Section 504 enforcement and reforms that allow people with disabilities to work, marry, raise families, receive healthcare, learn, and live independently without being penalized by outdated benefit rules.
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I support stronger ADA and Section 504 enforcement and reforms that allow people with disabilities to work, marry, raise families, receive healthcare, learn, and live independently without being penalized by outdated benefit rules.
Expanded and effective background checks
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Expanded and effective background checks
Strengthening federal civil-rights enforcement and independent oversight
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Strengthening federal civil-rights enforcement and independent oversight
Secure firearm storage and responsible ownership
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Secure firearm storage and responsible ownership
Protecting the constitutional rights of law-abiding firearm owners
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Protecting the constitutional rights of law-abiding firearm owners
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