Jersey City has a new Mayor -elect after yesterday’ s election in New Jersey’s 2nd largest city Councilman Steve Fullop who represented Ward E won by an impressive margin over current Mayor Jerramiah Healy.

Fullop with a little over 52% of the vote won with 20,373 votes and Mayor Healy received close to 38% of the vote with 14,575 votes cast for the incumbent Mayor.

Jerrimiah “Jerry” Walker came in third with over 3,000 votes  and Addul Malik came in fourth with 1% of the vote totaling  more than 300 votes.

After the final count Fullop’s team won the ward E council seat making Candice Osbourne the only member of Fullop’s team not facing a special run-off election on June 11th. The seats in A, B, C, D and F are up for grabs.

The June 11th election will have Six at-large candidates and
two candidates vying for those seats.

Fullop told his supporters at the after election party at the  Zeppelin Hall Restaurant and Biergarten in downtown Jersey City  that “We are going to work relentlessly to make sure that those of you who put your faith in us, we will make you proud.”

Steven Fullop at 36 will be Jersey City’s 45th  Mayor.