The Jersey City 2004 mayoral special election took place on November 2, 2004. Democrat

Jerramiah Healy Jerramiah T. Healy (born December 16, 1950) is a New Jersey-based politician who served as the 48th mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey serving from 2004 to 2013. He ran for the unexpired term of the late Glenn D. Cunningham and was elected in Novem ...

won the election with 28% of the vote over his nearest rivals (Assemblyman Lou Manzo, 24%, and Acting Mayor L. Harvey Smith, 22%). The previous Mayor

Glenn Cunningham Glenn Cunningham may refer to: * Glenn Cunningham (athlete) (1909–1988), American runner, Olympic Games medalist *Glenn Cunningham (Nebraska politician) (1912–2003), American politician, mayor of Omaha, and congressman for Nebraska *Glenn Cunni ...

, the first African-American Mayor died of a heart attack five months prior and L. Harvey Smith became Acting Mayor. There was also an election in 2005, which Healy also won. 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 *Isaiah J. Gadsden *

*Steve Lipski *Hosam Mansour *

Louis Manzo Louis Manzo (born February 28, 1955, in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2004 to 2008, where he represented the 31st legislative district, and who ran unsuc ...

*Hilario Nunez, Jr. *Alfred Marc Pine *Thomas Short * L. Harvey Smith

Results

References

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