Turnout surged across New Jersey Tuesday, helping propel Democrat Mikie Sherrill to a landslide win in the race for governor. The Garden State is blowing past its turnout in its last gubernatorial contest in 2021, when Republican Jack Ciattarelli came within a few points of an upset win over Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy.

In fact, relative to 2021, all 21 of the state's counties were seeing vote increases of at least 10% (according to CBS Elections Data Desk estimates, as of Wednesday afternoon).

But it's the places that saw the biggest turnout jumps that tell the story of the Democrat's succcess . The largest turnout increases were concentrated in counties that strongly voted for Sherrill, padding her margin.

Take the six counties that saw increases of over 30% in their vote

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