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John Moor of the Asbury Together ticket has received the most votes in the contest for Asbury Park Mayor, while his four running mates are the high vote-getters for the four council seats, according to unofficial results provided by City Clerk Steven Kay.

[UPDATE: With vote-by-mail ballots now counted, the Asbury Together slate has swept all five council seats, which includes Moor as Mayor. Click here for the updated story. Shown above are Asbury Together candidates Moor, incumbent Councilwoman Amy Quinn, Jesse Kendle, Joe Woerner and Barbara Clayton.]

With Moor securing a majority of 1215 votes out of the 2164 cast, he will avoid the need for a run-off election in early December — unless uncounted provisional and vote-by-mail ballots change the lead, or put Moor or another candidate below 50 percent.. The next highest vote getter was Remond Palmer of the A-Team ticket with 563. Incumbent Mayor Myra Campbell received 309 votes and Harold Sugss 77. Moor currently serves as a councilman.

In the council race, Asbury Together candidates Amy Quinn, also an incumbent, received 1470 votes, Jesse Kendle received 1415 votes, Joe Woerner 1388 and Barbara Clayton 1377. They were the four highest vote-getters for the four city council seats, according to the results from Kay’s office.

The A-Team’s Duanne Small received 649 votes, Kevin Saunders, Jr. 622 votes, Rosetta Johnson 580 and Derrick Grant 543.

The unofficial results do not include provisional ballots or vote-by-mail [VBM] ballots, which number over 800 votes.

A total 161 provisional ballots were cast in Asbury Park, according to Kay. Provisional ballots are cast by those whose eligibility to vote is unclear. Those ballots will be counted in the coming days by county election officials.

The VBM ballots were controversial in the election. As of 3 pm on Monday, 666 VBM ballots had been received for counting at the county board of elections. Information was not available about any other VBM ballots received since that time.

The Asbury Together ticket challenged over 300 of the 666 ballots, claiming that the A-Team campaign did not properly handle ballots they helped obtain for voters. Those disputed ballots involved applications where a messenger was requested to bring the ballot directly to the voter.

The Board of Elections was still working Tuesday evening on ruling on what VBM ballots will be disqualified. No information was available on how many ballots will be allowed to be counted, or the updated number of any ballots disqualified.

The Board started its work on Monday, disqualifying 26 of the first 38 VBM ballots it reviewed that were subject to the Asbury Together challenge. It held nine of those ballots and allowed three to be counted. That left about 300 more ballots for the board to review that were subject to the challenge.

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