2004 Jersey City mayoral special election

The Jersey City 2004 mayoral special election was held on November 2, 2004 to elect a successor to Glenn Cunningham, who died in office of a heart attack. Jerramiah Healy won the election with 28 percent of the vote over his nearest rivals Lou Manzo and acting mayor L. Harvey Smith.

The election was marked by attempts to claim the legacy of deceased Mayor Cunningham, innuendo, and a picture of the eventual winner drunk and naked on his front porch.

Candidates

The candidates were as follows:

• Dwayne Baskerville
• Willie L. Flood, former Jersey City councilor and candidate in the 1992 special mayoral election (Democratic)
• Isaiah J. Gadsden
• Jerramiah Healy, former chief municipal judge and candidate in the 1997 mayoral election (Democratic)
• Steve Lipski, Jersey City councilor (Democratic)
• Hosam Mansour
• Louis Manzo, state assemblyman, former Hudson County freeholder, and candidate for mayor in 1992 and 1993 (Democratic)
• Hilario Nunez, Jr.
• Alfred Marc Pine
• Thomas Short
• L. Harvey Smith, acting mayor and former state senator (Democratic)

Results

Aftermath

Healy won an election to the next full term in 2005. He was re-elected in 2009 and defeated by Steven Fulop in 2013.

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