Where to Find Rutgers-Eagleton Poll Results and New Jersey Election Data

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The Rutgers-Eagleton Poll publishes its results as press releases on eagletonpoll.rutgers.edu and keeps its underlying polling data in a Poll Data Archive linked from the same site. For a specific election, the fastest route is the press release for that survey, which typically links to a public PDF with toplines; for historical or crosstab-level data, use the archive. The site is run by the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling (ECPIP) at Rutgers University.

What the site publishes

The homepage organizes its output into a few clear channels:

  • Rutgers-Eagleton Poll Press Releases — the primary publication channel for each new survey, including election horserace numbers and issue polling.
  • Poll Data Archive — the research entry point for past datasets.
  • Client Services — describes research ECPIP conducts for government bodies, nonprofits with a public-interest mission, and university-based researchers.
  • News & Announcements — media coverage, commentary from ECPIP staff, and partner-poll references.

Finding a specific election poll

Election results appear first as a press release, and the release usually carries a direct link to a public PDF. The 2025 New Jersey gubernatorial survey is a working example: the release reported Mikie Sherrill at 47% and Jack Ciattarelli at 37%, with 3% choosing neither or someone else and 12% undecided, fielded July 31–August 11 and published August 20, 2025. The linked PDF filename follows a predictable pattern (Rutgers-Eagleton-Poll-2025-NJ-Gov-Election-8.20.25-FINAL-PUBLIC-PDF.pdf), which helps when you are scanning the site's uploads folder for a release you saw quoted elsewhere.

The same release broke results down by subgroup — among men, Sherrill 46% to Ciattarelli 43%; among women, 48% to 33% — so if you need demographic crosstabs rather than the topline, check whether the public PDF includes them before turning to the archive.

Steps to retrieve a result

  1. Go to eagletonpoll.rutgers.edu and open the press releases section.
  2. Locate the release by date or election topic.
  3. Open the linked PDF for toplines, field dates, sample description, and subgroup tables.
  4. If you need the full dataset or older surveys, follow the Poll Data Archive link from the homepage.

Expected result: a dated PDF with question wording, sample size, and margin-of-error information — the details you need to judge whether a number is being cited correctly.

Reading the numbers responsibly

The site's own commentary makes a point worth carrying into how you use its data. ECPIP director Ashley Koning, responding to claims of a 2024 "red wave" that did not materialize, argued that polls exist "to have data instead of anecdotes" and that overreliance on anecdote rather than survey data distorted expectations. Practically, that means checking field dates and sample composition before comparing a poll to a final result — the 2025 governor survey, for instance, was fielded over roughly two weeks in late summer, well before election day.

Beyond elections

ECPIP also polls on policy topics, often with partner organizations, and those releases live in the same feed. A 2017 Health Matters poll conducted with the Quality Institute found that only about two in ten New Jerseyans had experience with telehealth, while many were open to using technology for care; a later Health Matters release reported that around nine in ten residents were likely to ask a doctor for health information and roughly the same share trusted doctors and nurses for accurate information. These partner polls are useful when you need state-level public opinion on health, education, or civic issues rather than horserace numbers.

When the site is not the right source

If you need real-time updates or commentary between releases, the poll's Twitter/X feed is embedded on the homepage and carries staff commentary and result summaries. If you are commissioning new research rather than reading existing results, the Client Services page is the entry point — ECPIP works with government agencies, public-interest nonprofits, and academic researchers, and the site asks interested parties to make contact to discuss a project. The Garden State Panel, a probability-based multi-mode panel of New Jersey adults run with SSRS, is the vehicle for that kind of work; inquiries also go through the contact route described on the site.