Overview
- Newark voters are deciding whether to return Ras Baraka for a fourth term in a nonpartisan mayoral election with eight candidates on the ballot.
- If no candidate wins a majority, the top two finishers move to a June 9 runoff under the city’s rules.
- Polls close at 8 p.m. ET, with Essex County releasing early and absentee results first on election night.
- About 2,700 ballots were cast before Election Day, a small slice of the city’s electorate based on past turnout.
- The race follows a turbulent year for Baraka that included an arrest at an immigration protest with charges later dropped, a lawsuit against a federal prosecutor, and a second-place finish in the Democratic gubernatorial primary behind Mikie Sherrill.