27.2 percent, Republicans is in District 10 at 6.3 percent, and other parties is a tie between District 7 and District 11 at 0.9 percent each. The district with the largest Democratic-Republican percentage spread is District 10 at 52.9 percent. The district with the smallest Democratic-Republican percentage spread is District 11 at 1.6 percent. District 11 has the largest number of registered voters at 609,193, and District 8 has the least at 441,556. New Jersey's Federal Representation Following each decennial census, the New Jersey Redistricting Commission forms to realign the districts. New Jersey currently has 12 House districts In the 118th Congress, 9 of New Jersey's seats are held by Democrats and 3 are held by Republicans. There are as follows: New Jersey's 1st congressional district represented by Donald Norcross (D) New Jersey's 2nd congressional district represented by Jeff Van Drew (R) New Jersey's 3rd congressional district represented by Andy Kim (D) New Jersey's 4th congressional district represented by Chris Smith (R) New Jersey's 5th congressional district represented by Josh Gottheimer (D) New Jersey's 6th congressional district represented by Frank Pallone (D) New Jersey's 7th congressional district represented by Tom Kean Jr. (R) New Jersey's 8th congressional district represented by Rob Menendez (D) New Jersey's 9th congressional district represented by Bill Pascrell (D) New Jersey's 10th congressional district represented by Donald Payne Jr. (D) New Jersey's 11th congressional district represented by Mikie Sherrill (D) New Jersey's 12th congressional district represented by Bonnie Watson Coleman (D) New Jersey's two United States Senators are Democrats Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, serving since 2006 and 2013, respectively. New Jersey is part of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in the federal judiciary. The district's cases are appealed to the Philadelphia-based United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Issues The most contentious recent issue in New Jersey has been the conflict between the state government and public-sector unions. The unions, allied with the Democratic Party, believed that their workers were entitled to pensions and healthcare which had been promised to them in the past. Moderate Democrats and Republicans believed that the state could no longer afford to pay for benefits it had promised public workers in the past. Property taxes are also an issue, since the state has the nation's highest property tax. New Jersey is a densely-populated, high-income, high-cost-of-living state, with more money needed for infrastructure