It is Primary Election Day in New Jersey.

Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

New Jersey voters today will choose party nominees for Governor.

On The Republican side, former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli, Senator Jon Bramnick, radio personality Bill Spadea, and Englewood Cliffs Mayor Mario Kranjic are all running for their party's nomination.

On the Democratic side, U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, former Senate President Steve Sweeney, U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer, and New Jersey Education President Sean Spiller are all running.

In addition, state Senator Benjie Wimberly is running in a special uncontested Democratic Primary for the 35th District Senate seat. Frank G. Filipellli is running for the GOP nomination.

All 80 Assembly seats are up this year, as well as county and local seats. According to the NJ Secretary of State, 202 candidates are competing for those seats: 120 Democrats and 82 Republicans.

For a complete list of all the contenders, please go HERE.

As of the end of Sunday, nearly 467,000 registered Democratic and Republican voters or 11% had participated in the early voting process.

Regarding the Governor's contests, according to the Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC):

"A perfect storm of historic spending by both gubernatorial candidates and independent groups already
has driven overall spending to more than $122 million, according to reports due 11 days before the election.

"Candidates have spent $54.8 million while expenditures by independent committees have reached $67.6 million. Most of these independent expenditure committees support specific candidates but they are legally banned from directly coordinating their activities.

"The combined spending of $122.5 million already towers over past primary elections and is preliminary. Candidates and major independent expenditure committees included in this analysis have about $14 million in cash reserves they can still spend. Independent committees can accept unlimited contributions that could swell the total even more.

"Even now, the current election appears to be the most expensive state election in history."

Throughout the day, InsiderNJ reporters will be traveling the state, focusing on key contests, especially the gubernatorial primary elections, and frequently updating this website. Please make sure to check back often throughout the day for updates, and to join us this evening as we report results.

For more information on the governor's contest, please see THIS INTERVIEW InsiderNJ Editor Max Pizarro did with Heather Darling, host of Have You Heard?

Also, please take a look at these final primary roundup stories HERE and HERE.