Provisional ballots have been counted and the official results are in from the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 4.
Final results are as follows in the race for three Ocean City Board of Education seats, the only local contest on the ballot:
- Joseph S. Clark Jr. (2,189)
- Cecelia Gallelli-Keyes (2,150)
- Michael Allan James (2,072)
- Dale F. Braun Jr. (1,742)
The final tally differed only slightly from the unofficial election-night results (which already included vote-by-mail votes) with no candidate gaining more than 12 provisional votes.
Write-in votes for the Ocean City Board of Education candidates were as follows:
- Michaela Walsh: 2
- Braun: 1
- Gregory Winegar: 1
- Joseph Edwards: 1
- Joseph M. Lehman Jr.: 1
- Jen Bowman: 1
- James Stockley: 1 (vote by mail)
- Maryann McLaughlin 1 (vote by mail)
For more detail, visit capemaycountyvotes.com.
Voting machines and materials are impounded until Nov. 19, which is the deadline for a which a petition for recount (of the voting machine totals and paper ballots), a recheck (of the voting machine totals) or a challenge to the election may be filed in Superior Court, according to the Cape May County Clerk’s Office.
Voter turnout in Ocean City was 52.73 percent with 4,379 of 8,304 registered voters casting ballots on federal, county and school board candidates.
Ocean City sided with the losing candidate, Republican Jeff Bell, in the race for a U.S. Senate seat won by Democrat Cory Booker. Ocean City cast 2,340 votes for Bell and 1,576 for Booker.
Ocean City voters overwhelming chose Republican incumbent Frank LoBiondo (2,766 votes) over Democratic challenger Bill Hughes Jr. (1,534 votes), a native of Ocean City.
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