[5] For the 2024-2025 session, the 40th legislative district of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Kristin Corrado (R, Totowa) and in the General Assembly by Al Barlas (R, Cedar Grove) and Christopher DePhillips (R, Wyckoff).

[7] Following the 1981 redistricting, the 40th lost Elmwood Park, Ho-Ho-Kus, and Allendale, but picked up Upper Saddle River and the Passaic County boroughs of North Haledon, Pompton Lakes, Bloomingdale, and Wanaque.

[21] In 2023, the Republican ticket of incumbent Chris DePhillips (seeking his fourth two-year term) and Essex County GOP chairman Al Barlas ran against the Democratic team of Giovanna Irizarry (the Woodland Park school district's director of special education) and Wyckoff small business owner Jennifer Marrinan for two seats in the general assembly; meanwhile, Hawthorne school board member Jennifer Ehrentraut ran as a Democrat for state senate against Republican incumbent Kristin Corrado.

In January 2023, just two months after announcing his candidacy, Barlas, "...raised a mammoth $112,844...making the first-time candidate one of the top GOP fundraisers in the state"; meanwhile, Corrado had amassed $117,457 and DePhillips had $145,095 (including, in both latter cases, leftover funds from previous campaigns).

[26] In October 2023, the Corrado-DePhillips-Barlas slate released a mailer where they boasted that, "...Corrado has led the charge to expose Murphy's deadly policies that cost thousands of...lives during the pandemic," that, "...DePhillips is pushing legislation to slash the state's oppressive tax on businesses," and that, "...Barlas is running to restore commonsense values to our local schools and empower parents to be at the center of their child's education"; later the mailer tied president Joe Biden to rising inflation (via a Fox News headline) and Phil Murphy to New Jersey schools not, "...tell[ing] parents about student gender choices," (by way of a northjersey.com headline), calling them "radical Democrats" under whose leadership, "Our economy is tanking, and our values are under attack".

DePhillips and Rooney claimed they had spoken to the League following the Wayne debate and that, "The LWV...agreed to not allow questions from elected officials from either party," but that the organization rejected other structural requests they had made — pushing the two candidates to back down.

Cordonnier and O'Brien criticized the Republicans' absence, arguing that, “...refusing to engage with [us] shows a lack of respect for their constituents and their office...As an elected official, you need to answer for your record even if you don’t like the questions".

[41] Following Election Day (on which he became governor-elect), Democrat Phil Murphy named Ordway to his transition team's healthcare board — a role which involved, "...policy analysis and [making] recommendations on...state issues and initiatives as the new administration prepare[d] to take office".

At the forum, the Republicans argued that, "...affordable-housing obligations should be left up to local governments...[and cited] the lack of vacant land as a hurdle to increasing affordable-housing stock," whereas Vagianos claimed affordable housing requirements should be handled by state courts and Duch said that such housing, "is not evil" while touting the presence of affordable units in Garfield, the city he managed; Rooney supported extending the two-percent yearly salary increase cap on police and firefighters to manage municipal expenses while the Democrats blamed New Jersey's public-salary/pension crisis on, "...Chris Christie, who they said underfunded the state pension system"; Vagianos and Ordway brought up funding, "...the Hudson Tunnel Project...a new commuter tunnel between New Jersey and Midtown Manhattan," arguing it, "...would be a boon to local real estate values and the economy"; and the Democrats said they were committed to, "...fully funding Planned Parenthood in the state of New Jersey," in part in an effort to make more accessible, "...preventive care services for low-income women across the state," — which DePhillips contended (while supporting preventative care) was a distortion of the situation, as, "...the issue 'is about abortion'," while Corrado pointed out that Planned Parenthood is not the only institution offering preventative care in the state.