Jersey City Public Schools, New Jersey, elections (2020)
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Three seats on the Jersey City Public Schools school board in New Jersey were up for general election on November 3, 2020. The filing deadline for this election was July 27, 2020.
Lorenzo Richardson, LeKendrick Shaw, and Gina Verdibello ran on the Education Matters slate. Sonia Cintron, Asheenia Johnson, and Karen Poliski ran on the Change For Children slate.
Election procedure changes in 2020
Ballotpedia provided comprehensive coverage of how election dates and procedures changed in 2020. While the majority of changes occurred as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, some changes occurred for other reasons.
New Jersey modified its absentee/mail-in voting and candidate filing procedures for the November 3, 2020, general election as follows:
- Absentee/mail-in voting: Mail-in were ballots sent to all registered voters in the general election.
- Candidate filing procedures: Candidates were allowed to collect and submit petition signatures via electronic means. The petition deadline for unaffiliated candidates for non-presidential office was postponed to July 7, 2020.
For a full timeline about election modifications made in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, click here.
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Candidates and results
General election
General election for Jersey City Public Schools Board of Education At-large (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Jersey City Public Schools Board of Education At-large on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Lorenzo Richardson (Nonpartisan) | 21.2 | 39,147 |
| ✔ |  | Gina Verdibello (Nonpartisan) | 20.2 | 37,210 |
| ✔ | LeKendrick Shaw (Nonpartisan) | 18.4 | 33,960 | |
| Asheenia Johnson (Nonpartisan) | 14.5 | 26,790 | ||
| Sonia Cintron (Nonpartisan) | 13.7 | 25,244 | ||
| Karen Poliski (Nonpartisan) | 11.9 | 22,030 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 188 | ||
| Total votes: 184,569 | |||
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About the district
- See also: Jersey City Public Schools, New Jersey
Jersey City Public Schools is located in Hudson County, New Jersey. The district served 29,659 students during the 2016-2017 school year.[1]
Pivot Counties
- See also: Pivot Counties by state
Two of 21 New Jersey counties—9.5 percent—are Pivot Counties. Pivot Counties are counties that voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012 and for Donald Trump (R) in 2016. Altogether, the nation had 206 Pivot Counties, with most being concentrated in upper midwestern and northeastern states.
| Counties won by Trump in 2016 and Obama in 2012 and 2008 | |||||||
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| County | Trump margin of victory in 2016 | Obama margin of victory in 2012 | Obama margin of victory in 2008 | ||||
| Gloucester County, New Jersey | 0.48% | 10.77% | 12.16% | ||||
| Salem County, New Jersey | 15.00% | 1.31% | 3.92% | ||||
In the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton (D) won New Jersey with 55.5 percent of the vote. Donald Trump (R) received 41.4 percent. In presidential elections between 1900 and 2016, New Jersey voted Democratic 46.67 percent of the time and Republican 53.33 percent of the time. In the five presidential elections between 2000 and 2016, New Jersey voted Democratic all five times.
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