United States 2026 · Parties and candidates · House, New Jersey 12
Jay Vaingankar
Jay Vaingankar’s FEC committees ran 8 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram from 1 page between 17 May 2026 and 22 May 2026. Meta reports $3.5–5.1K of spend. That makes Jay Vaingankar the 691st largest spender of the 1181 federal candidates with ads. Running for House, New Jersey 12. Party: Democrats.
Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026.
8
ads on 1 page
$4.3K
reported spend, range $3.5–5.1K
100%
of spend on federal races
$350
median spend per ad
Meta and Google side by side
On MetaFacebook · Instagram
$4.3K
8 ads on 1 page, midpoint of Meta’s ranges, 4 May 2026 to 31 October 2026
- Largest page
- Jay for Jersey · $4.3K
- Federal races
- 100%
- Median spend per ad
- $350
- Attack ads, of text ads
- 0.0%
On Google and YouTubeSearch · YouTube · Display
$13.3–15.5K
5 ads from 1 verified advertiser account, Google’s ranges, 4 May 2026 to 3 June 2026
- Against Meta spend
- 3.4×
- Formats
- 4 video · 1 text
- Impressions
- 425K–491K
- Targeting declared
- age on 2 ads · gender on 2 ads
- States named
- New Jersey
- Last ad shown
- 3 Jun
Google advertiser accounts
| Advertiser | Ads | Formats | States | First ad | Last ad | Spend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JAY VAINGANKAR FOR CONGRESS | 5 | 4 video · 1 text | NJ | 23 Feb | 3 Jun | $13.3–15.5K |
Google publishes no ad text; the link on each account opens its ads in Google’s Ads Transparency Center. An account is tied to this page by its FEC committee; a party page lists its 1 largest.
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 8 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Topics
Spend by race: Federal 100%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
FEC committees
| FEC committee | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| JAY VAINGANKAR FOR CONGRESS C00929802 | 8 | $4.3K |
The committees whose ads count for the candidate, as the FEC names them.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
Jay Vaingankar grew up the son of immigrants who believed in the American promise. Now he's running for Congress to fight for families like his – and yours – across Central Jersey. It's time to elect New Jersey's first Gen-Z and first South Asian member of Congress. Vote June 2nd. >>>
21 May 2026 · Jay for Jersey · $1–1.5K · 350K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Jay Vaingankar is people-powered. ❌No Super PACs. ❌No corporate cash. ✅Just a Central Jersey kid who served in the White House fighting to lower your energy costs. While Jay is running to lower your bills and take on Trump, his opponents are letting their dark money donors do the talking. New Jersey is not for sale. Vote June 2nd. >>>
21 May 2026 · Jay for Jersey · $1–1.5K · 300K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Pages that ran the ads
| Page | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| Jay for Jersey | 8 | $4.3K |
Each name opens the page’s Vipima page, with its own figures and its link to Meta’s Ad Library.
Figures cover domestic political ads paid in dollars, from 4 May 2026. Spend is the sum of Meta’s range midpoints; impressions above one million are reported as “1M+”, so impression figures are floors. Each ad counts in the week its delivery started, with its lifetime spend at our last pull; ads still running before the vote are counted as of 31 October 2026.
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