2017 Hoboken mayoral election

2017 Hoboken mayoral election
November 7, 2017
Turnout43.2%
 
Candidate Ravinder Bhalla Michael DeFusco
Party Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Popular vote 5,041 4,557
Percentage 32.75% 29.60%
 
Candidate Anthony Romano Jen Giattino
Party Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Popular vote 2,804 2,537
Percentage 18.21% 16.48%
Mayor before election

Dawn Zimmer
Democratic

 Elected mayor

Ravinder Bhalla
Democratic

The Hoboken mayoral election of 2017 was an election to determine the mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey in the term of 2018–2022. The election took place on November 7, 2017. Incumbent mayor Dawn Zimmer announced that she would not run for a third term on June 20, 2017, hoping to pursue climate change issues higher up in the chain of government, and endorsed City Councilman Ravinder Bhalla. On November 7, Bhalla was elected mayor of Hoboken, with 32.75% of the vote, becoming the first Sikh mayor in New Jersey history, and the first turbaned Sikh to be elected mayor in the United States.

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