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The following is a list of neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey, United States within its five political wards. [1] each with distinct neighborhoods. [2] North Ward
Since the creation of the 40-district legislative map in 1973, the 29th district has always been based in and around Newark. In the 1973 map, the 29th district consisted of most of the South and East Wards (excluding Ironbound) and a portion of the Central Ward. [8]
The Newark mayoral election took place May 13, 2014 and was won by Ras Baraka. Luis A. Quintana had stepped down as Council President to be sworn in as mayor on November 4, 2013 following the resignation of Cory Booker, completing the term which ended June 30, 2014. Baraka also won the 2018 election and the 2022 election.
Librarian and Newark South Ward Democratic activist Oadline Truitt was chosen by the committee to serve until a November 2006 special election that she also won. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Truitt and incumbent Assemblyman Craig A. Stanley were defeated in the 2007 Democratic primary by the Cory Booker -backed ticket of Caputo and Cleopatra Tucker , widow of ...
Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver (D) has won the special election to fill a vacant House seat representing New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ.
Essex County is governed by a directly elected county executive, with legislative functions performed by the Board of County Commissioners.As of 2025, the County Executive is Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. (D, Roseland), whose four-year term of office ends December 31, 2026. [1]
Turnout was 18.6% in the city of Newark in the recent general election, when Democrats lost all eight city council contests. As Newark voter participation collapses, so do fortunes of Democratic ...
Newark is the home of multiple institutions of higher education, including: a Berkeley College campus, [372] the main campus of Essex County College, [373] New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), [374] the Newark Campus of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (formerly University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey), [375] Rutgers ...