NEWARK, N.J. (AP/ 1010 WINS) -- This time, Dawn Zimmer won't have to sweat provisional ballots, absentee ballots or any other type of ballots.
Hoboken's first female mayor defeated six challengers Tuesday to replace former Mayor Peter Cammarano, who resigned over the summer after his arrest on corruption charges.
Zimmer lost to Cammarano in June in a runoff despite winning the machine vote. Three weeks after he took office, the 32-year-old Cammarano was arrested in a federal corruption sting and charged with accepting $25,000 in bribes from a government informant posing as a corrupt developer.
Zimmer, the city's council president, took over as acting mayor on July 31.
``I've been restoring faith, as soon as I took over as acting mayor,'' Zimmer told My9 News. ``And I'm going to be working every day to restore that and to reduce taxes as much as possible.''
With 97 percent of precincts reporting, Zimmer had received 5,278 votes, or 43 percent. Councilwoman Beth Mason was a distant second with 2,780 (23 percent).
In other mayoral races, Lorenzo Langford in Atlantic City and Dana Redd in Camden breezed to victories. Langford, a Democrat who won a one-year term last year following a period of political turmoil in the city, earned a four-year term by easily defeating Republican Jesse Kurtz and Independents Dennis Mason and Joseph Polillo.
Redd, a Democratic state Senator, garnered 83 percent of the vote with all precincts reporting. She will take over a city that consistently ranks as one of the nation's most impoverished.
In Morristown, Democrat Timothy Dougherty overwhelmed Republican Jimmy Gervasio 65 percent to 35 percent, while the GOP picked up a win in Parsippany/Troy Hills where Jamie Barberio defeated incumbent Democrat Michael Luther 52 percent to 48 percent.
Democrats Antonia Ricigliano and Sharon Robinson-Briggs won in Edison and Plainfield, respectively, while Republican Andrew Skibitsky was re-elected as mayor of Westfield.
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