U.S. Senate · New Jersey
Joanne Kuniansky
CandidateSocialist Workers Party
- Race
- U.S. Senate · New Jersey
- Result
- Cory Booker, projected winner
- Opponents
- Cory Booker (D); Justin Murphy (R); Veronica Fernandez (End the Corruption!); Eduardo Castillo (D)
- Research
- Basic
Party linenone
No recorded floor votes — not a current legislator in our records.
Said vs. did1 statement · 0 votes
fight for the right of women to family planning, including safe and secure birth control and abortion
Protect legal access to abortion
Compare statements with votes ›On the ballotU.S. Senate
2026-11-03
| Cory Booker D | incumbent |
| Justin Murphy R | challenger |
| Veronica Fernandez End the Corruption! | challenger |
| Joanne Kuniansky Socialist Workers Party | challenger |
| Eduardo Castillo D | challenger |
Said vs. did
Each documented position next to the recorded floor votes we map to the same issue. Votes are compared one at a time; no overall stance is inferred from them.
fight for the right of women to family planning, including safe and secure birth control and abortion
In her 2021 official candidate statement (New Jersey governor race), called for fighting for women's right to family planning including birth control and abortion.[3]
No recorded floor vote in our key-vote set maps to this issue.
Biography
Joanne Kuniansky, a Socialist Workers Party candidate, lost the November 3, 2026 election for U.S. Senate in New Jersey to Cory Booker. She has been the party's candidate in a series of New Jersey elections since 2021, including the 2024 U.S. Senate race, in which she received 0.2% of the vote.[1][2]
Basic profile — the most important sourced facts we found.
Kuniansky was born in New Jersey and attended high school in Atlanta, Georgia, where WHYY reports she became active in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam war movements. She joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1977 and lives in West New York, New Jersey.[4] She has worked as a refinery operator, meat packer, machine operator and Walmart deli worker, and WHYY reports that she has spent much of her adult life as a union activist. A candidate statement from her 2021 campaign likewise said she had worked in oil refineries, railroads and meat packing.[1][4]
Kuniansky has run as the Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor in 2021, for New Jersey's 8th Congressional District in 2022, for New Jersey State Senate District 33 in 2023 (2.9%) and for governor again in 2025.[1] In 2024 she was the party's U.S. Senate candidate in New Jersey and received 9,806 votes (0.2%).[1] She received 0.9% of the vote to Cory Booker's 62.4%, according to unofficial results reported by NBC News.[2]
In their own words
Priorities
- Standing with workers who resist 'the bosses’ attacks on their jobs, wages and working conditions' and building unions, per her email to WHYY.[5]
- A public works program providing jobs at union-scale wages, a shorter work week with no pay cuts, and automatic cost-of-living increases in union contracts, pensions and Social Security (as described by WHYY).[5]
Statements, quoted without a stance
- Expand immigration enforcement and deportations
“calling for an amnesty for workers in the U.S. without papers”[5]
In an email to WHYY, per its Sept. 22, 2026 voter guide
Campaign moneyNo FEC filing summary matched — state candidates file with their state, not the FEC.
Profile: /people/joanne-kuniansky
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Sources cited in this profile
- 1.Joanne Kuniansky · Ballotpedia · 2026-09-25 Reference
- 2.U.S. Senate · New Jersey results 2026 · NBC News News report
- 3.Joanne Kuniansky's 2021 official candidate statement (NJ ELEC), quoted verbatim · Joanne Kuniansky 2021 candidate statement (via Ballotpedia) · 2021 Candidate's own words
- 4.New Jersey election 2026: Cory Booker faces 3 challengers in U.S. Senate race. Here's what to know · WHYY · 2026-09-22 News report
- 5.New Jersey election 2026: Cory Booker faces 3 challengers in U.S. Senate race. Here's what to know · WHYY · 2026-09-22 News report