Over a third of the city’s registered voters participated in the city’s first November municipal election, up from 26 percent total turnout in the May 2013 municipal election. A total 9,182 residents are registered to vote in the city and 3,421 of them — or 37.26 percent — cast at least one vote in the election, according to the […]

John Moor — a sitting councilman who ran on the Asbury Together ticket — will be over the required 50 percent threshold to win the mayor’s race outright without a run-off election, according to unofficial results provided by City Clerk Steven Kay and county election officials. With vote-by-mail ballots now counted, Moor has 1374 of the […]

The Monmouth County Board of Elections has disqualified 353 vote-by-mail [VBM] ballots in the Asbury Park election. The Board allowed 340 VBM ballots to be counted, which increased the lead of the Asbury Together ticket. There are still 161 provisional ballots that need to be counted. Asbury Together has already claimed victory in four of […]

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 […]

[Editor’s note: In an effort to provide Sun readers and Asbury Park candidates who seek to be elected as the city’s first directly-elected mayor with the most fair and accurate election coverage, the Sun sat down with each of the four mayoral candidates and asked them the same ten questions. No candidates were provided advanced […]

Local restaurateur Marilyn Schlossbach has filed run for a seat on the Asbury Park City Council in the November elections. All five council seats are up for grabs in the November 4 election and it will be the first time in the city’s history voters will directly elect their mayor. “United Community for Asbury” is […]