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A brief electoral history of Ras Baraka

May 10, 2025 9:41 pm

If Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is elected governor of New Jersey in this year’s election, he’d make a lot of history. He’d be the first Black person elected to lead the state; in fact, no major party in New Jersey...

A brief electoral history of Ras Baraka

April 25, 2024 1:22 pmJuly 25, 2024 2:26 pm

If Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is elected governor of New Jersey in next year’s election, he’d make a lot of history. He’d be the first Black person elected to lead the state; in fact, no major party in New Jersey...

Newark will hold at least two runoffs in four contested council races

May 10, 2022 10:37 pmMay 10, 2022 11:29 pm

Mayor Ras Baraka’s slate in four contested council races is having a mixed night; Central Ward Councilwoman LaMonica McIver won outright, but two of Baraka’s endorsees will likely face runoffs and a third came in dead last in his race....

Sharpe James mulls run for Newark City Council

February 2, 2022 10:32 amApril 3, 2022 6:30 pm

Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James, who served 18 months in federal prison after his conviction on criminal charges, has taken out nominating petitions to run for an at-large city council seat in the May non-partisan elections, the New Jersey Globe...

A look ahead at May’s municipal elections

January 21, 2022 5:37 pmFebruary 1, 2022 10:14 am

It’s always election season in New Jersey. This May, voters in many of New Jersey’s biggest municipalities, as well as some of its smallest, will hold municipal elections to determine who will lead their towns for the next four years....

Despite law, Newark voters won’t get to fill city council vacancy because it’s too difficult to run an election

August 25, 2021 3:25 pm

Should voters get to decide who fills the seat of longtime Newark City Councilwoman Mildred Crump, who resigned for health reasons on Monday? “Technically, yes,” said City Clerk Kenneth Louis. “But in reality, it’s impossible to do. There really isn’t...

Newark school boards slate drops incumbent

March 2, 2020 12:09 pmMarch 2, 2020 3:13 pm

A coalition slate that has controlled Newark school board elections of the last five years has dropped incumbent Reginald Bledsoe from their ticket and replaced him with the 23-year-old son of South Ward Democratic chairman Patrick Counsel. Hasani Council, an...