Ryan Talmadge Archives - New Jersey Globe

Six file to replace McIver in Newark’s Central Ward

August 21, 2025 10:37 pmAugust 22, 2025 9:05 am

Six candidates have filed to run in a non-partisan November special election to fill the Newark Central Ward city council seat left vacant last fall when Democrat LaMonica McIver resigned to take her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives....

Chaneyfield Jenkins will run for McIver’s council seat

March 6, 2025 3:38 pm

Gayle Chaneyfield Jenkins, a former Newark councilwoman who lost a 2018 campaign for mayor, will run for the Central Ward council seat that’s been vacant since now-U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-Newark) stepped down last September, she announced today. “The Central...