2010 Newark mayoral election

2010 Newark mayoral election

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May 11, 2010

Candidate Cory Booker Clifford J. Minor Party Nonpartisan Nonpartisan Popular vote 22,745 13,570 Percentage 59.1% 35.3%

Mayor before election Cory Booker Elected Mayor Cory Booker

The 2010 election for Mayor of Newark took place in Newark, the most populous city in the state of New Jersey, on May 11, 2010. Elections for all seats on the nine member Municipal Council of Newark were held the same day. A runoff election, if necessary, would have taken place. Elections in the city are non-partisan and candidates are not listed by political party. Incumbent Mayor Cory Booker avoided a runoff and was re-elected to his second term in office.

Booker would not serve out the entirety of his second term. In 2013, after having won the October 16 special election for U.S. Senator, Booker resigned as mayor and was sworn in on October 31 as the junior U.S. Senator from New Jersey. Luis A. Quintana, long-term member of the Municipal Council, replaced him as interim mayor. In 2019, he mounted a campaign to participate in 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.

Results

If no candidate had received 50% of the vote, the race would have continued to a run-off between the top two candidates from the first round.

Newark mayoral election, 2010

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	nonpartisan	Cory Booker (incumbent)	22,745	59.1
	nonpartisan	Clifford J. Minor	13,570	35.3
	nonpartisan	Yvonne Garrett Moore	1,703	4.4
	nonpartisan	Mirna L. White	444	1.2
Total votes			38,462

External links

Gillespie, Andra (2013), The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America, NYU Press, ISBN 9780814732458