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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 Monmouth County Clerk’s Office.  

About 28 percent of those voters, or 2567 people, cast their votes in their district polling booth.

The number of registered voters who chose to mail-in their ballots topped out at 693, or 7.55 percent. The Board of Elections disqualified 353 of the 693 ballots.

Provisional votes accounted for 1.75 percent of the votes, or 161 ballots. A provisional ballot is cast by a voter whose eligibility is questioned at the polls. The number of provisional ballots that will count in this election is yet to be determined. Provisional votes cast by individuals who are not from Asbury Park will be disqualified.

About 67 percent of voters, or 2,307, cast a vote at the machines in the mayoral race. Unofficial results show a majority of voters selected current city Councilman John B. Moor as the city’s first directly-elected mayor. Once counted, the number of provisional ballots — and whether first runner-up Remond Palmer will choose to seek another ruling to counter the board’s decision to disallow the 353 uncounted vote-by-mail ballots — could bring Moor’s majority below the 51 percent required to secure a majority, which would force a run-off.

Moor won seven of the city’s nine districts, they are district one and districts four through nine. Palmer won districts two and three.  [A full district map appears below.]

In the council race, Asbury Together candidates also secured seven of the city’s nine districts. Incumbent Councilwoman Amy Quinn of the Asbury Together ticket was the high votegetter in those same seven districts. Her running mate, Councilman-elect Jesse “Coach K” Kendle, won the highest number of votes in the second district, but the unsuccessful A-Team council slate carried the district.

A-Team candidates also secured the third district, with their candidate Kenneth Saunders, Jr., winning the highest number of votes at the polls there.

Moor’s Asbury Together council running mates — incumbent Quinn, Joe Woerner, Kendle and Barbara Clayton — have already declared victory. All five are now scheduled to be sworn-in on January 1.

Voter turnout was the highest in district seven, the northeastern-most part of the city. Just over 40 percent of voters in that district cast their vote at the machines. The lowest incidence of voter turnout was in district three, in the southwestern-most part of the city, where 19.10 percent of voters showed up to cast a vote.

Information that breaks down vote-by-mail ballot and provisional ballots cast by district is not available on the county website. The full breakdown of voter turnout at the polls by district is provided below.

District One: 282 of 968 registered voters, or 29.13 percent

District Two: 292 of 1292, or 22.6 percent

District Three: 251 of 1314 or 19.10 percent

District Four: 429 of 1451 or 29.57 percent

District Five: 271 of 1141 or 23.75 percent

District Six: 233 of 777, or 29.99 percent

District Seven: 263 of 656 or 40.09 percent

District Eight: 278 of 816 or 34.07 percent

District Nine: 268 of 767 or 34.94 percent

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