Mapp ekes out primary win for Plainfield mayorship

Plainfield Mayor Adrian Mapp has won the Democratic nomination for a fourth term, winning a rematch against Councilman Richard Wyatt by a 52%-48% margin.

Wyatt lost to Mapp in the 2021 primary by 269 votes, and five percentage points, 45%-40%; he won a city council seat in 2022.

This year, Mapp beat Wyatt 3,547-3,226 as of 1:30 a.m., a 321-vote margin.

In a race for a Ward 4 city council seat, incumbent Terri Briggs-Jones has defeated Bridget Rivers, who ran with the party slogan.

In 2013, Mapp ousted incumbent Sharon Robinson-Briggs in the primary with the support of the Union County Democratic organization. Robinson-Briggs had defeated Mapp in 2009; she had ousted Mayor Albert McWilliams in the 2005 primary.

Republicans did not put a candidate on the ballot. It’s unclear if they nominated someone through a write-in vote.