Jersey City Public Schools elections (2018)
- General election: Nov. 6
- Voter registration deadline: Oct. 16
- Early voting: Sept. 22 - Nov. 5
- Absentee voting deadline: Nov. 6
- Online registration: No
- Same-day registration: No
- Voter ID: No
- Poll times: 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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Three seats on the Jersey City Public Schools school board in New Jersey were up for general election on November 6, 2018.
Elections
Candidates
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 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Marilyn Roman (Nonpartisan) | 21.9 | 26,161 |
| ✔ |  | Mussab Ali (Nonpartisan) | 19.0 | 22,667 |
| ✔ | Joan Terrell-Paige (Nonpartisan) | 17.2 | 20,573 | |
 | Vidya Gangadin (Nonpartisan) | 11.2 | 13,379 | |
| Dominique Smith (Nonpartisan) | 11.0 | 13,100 | ||
| Neil Abadie (Nonpartisan) | 9.1 | 10,875 | ||
 | Natalia Ioffe (Nonpartisan) | 5.7 | 6,801 | |
 | Asmaa Abdalla (Nonpartisan) | 4.8 | 5,698 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 241 | ||
| Total votes: 119,495 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- John Hanussak (Nonpartisan)
- Yousef Saleh (Nonpartisan)
Additional elections on the ballot
- See also: New Jersey elections, 2018
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About the district
- See also: Jersey City Public Schools, New Jersey
Jersey City Public Schools is located in New Jersey. The district was the second-largest school district in the state in the 2014–2015 school year and served 30,845 students.[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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See also
| Jersey City Public Schools | New Jersey | School Boards |
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Footnotes
| Jersey City Public Schools elections in 2018 | |
| Hudson County, New Jersey | |
| Election date: | November 6, 2018 |
| Important information: | What was at stake? |
