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The Asbury Together ticket claimed victory in four of the five council seats at stake in Tuesday’s election, which will give them a council majority.

[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.]

And while acknowledging the possibility of a mayoral run-off when vote-by-mail [VBM] and provisional ballots are counted, the group says they expect current high vote-getter John Moor to prevail and become the next mayor.

Over 800 VBM and provisional ballots need to be counted, but Moor maintains a decisive lead over Remond Palmer of the A-Team ticket. In the council race, the Asbury Together council candidates believe that their lead is too great to be changed by those uncounted ballots.

“We are confident that the four Asbury Together candidates for council have been elected and that all the VBM and provisional ballots out there will not change that,” said the statement from group.

In the council race, Asbury Together candidates Amy Quinn, an incumbent, received 1470 votes, Jesse Kendle received 1415 votes, Joe Woerner 1388 and Barbara Clayton 1377. The A-Team’s Duanne Small received 649 votes, Kevin Saunders, Jr. 622 votes, Rosetta Johnson 580 and Derrick Grant 543.

In the Mayor’s race, Moor, currently a councilman, secured a majority of 1215 votes out of the 2164 cast. The next highest vote getter was Remond Palmer of the A-Team ticket with 563. Incumbent Mayor Myra Campbell received 309 votes and Harold Suggss 77. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two candidates will face each other in a run-off election on December 4.

“We also believe that John Moor is the likely Mayor of Asbury Park but are not going to claim that tonight. There is still the possibility of a run-off, and even if there is a runoff, given the numbers tonight we remain cautiously optimistic that John will win,” the Asbury Together statement said.

A run-off would occur if the uncounted ballots cause Moor — or Palmer if he overtakes him — to receive under 50 percent of the vote. The run-off election would be between the two would take place on December 4.

The unofficial results were provided by City Clerk Steve Kay.

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