Jersey City mayoral candidate James Solomon, seen speaking to people at a food drive Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J., won the city's runoff election. (Frank Franklin II/AP Photo)
Solomon will succeed Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, whose 2025 bid for Garden State governor ended with defeat in June's Democratic gubernatorial primary.
The mayor-elect was first elected to the council in 2017 after stints as an adjunct professor in Jersey City. He previously worked in the offices of longtime Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and then-Newark Mayor Cory Booker, now a U.S. senator.
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A one-time state lawmaker, McGreevey was elected governor in 2001. But he resigned in 2004 and came out as gay after saying he took part in an extramarital affair with a male staffer who he had named as New Jersey's homeland security adviser. The adviser denied he had an affair with the governor and claimed he had been sexually harassed.
Independent mayoral candidate and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks to the press after voting at a polling location at the High School of Art and Design in the Manhattan borough of New York City on Nov. 4, 2025. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)
Cuomo, who resigned as governor in 2021 amid multiple scandals, ran this year for New York City mayor. But he lost June's Democratic primary to Mamdani.
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The former governor, running as an independent in last month's general election, lost to Mamdani a second time.
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast."
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