Jim McGreevey loses Jersey City mayoral runoff to James Solomon

A month after former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was defeated within the New York Metropolis mayoral election by democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, one other disgraced former governor who sought political redemption by working for mayor was additionally defeated by a youthful, progressive candidate.

Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey, who ran for mayor of Jersey Metropolis, the state’s second-largest metropolis, fell brief within the runoff election on Tuesday.

McGreevey, 68, was defeated by 41-year-old Councilman James Solomon, in line with the Related Press.

The 2 candidates, each Democrats, had been the highest two vote-getters amongst seven contenders in final month’s nonpartisan common election within the left-leaning metropolis. However since no candidate obtained a majority of votes, McGreevey and Solomon confronted off within the runoff election.

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Jersey Metropolis mayoral candidate James Solomon, who spoke to individuals at a meals drive in Jersey Metropolis, NJ on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, gained town’s runoff election. (Frank Franklin II/AP Picture)

Solomon will succeed Jersey Metropolis Mayor Steven Fulop, whose 2025 bid for Backyard State governor ended with defeat in June’s Democratic major.

The mayor-elect was first elected to the council in 2017 after a stint as an adjunct professor in Jersey Metropolis. He beforehand labored within the places of work of longtime Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and then-Newark Mayor Cory Booker, now a U.S. senator.

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McGreevey, a former state lawmaker, was elected governor in 2001. However he resigned in 2004 and got here out as homosexual after saying he took half in an extramarital affair with a male staffer he appointed as New Jersey’s homeland safety adviser. The adviser denied having an affair with the governor and claimed he had been sexually harassed.

Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey returned to Backyard State politics this 12 months in his bid to grow to be Jersey Metropolis’s subsequent mayor. (Jim Spellman/WireImage)

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McGreevey, citing his work as govt director of a nonprofit that gives companies to individuals adjusting to society after incarceration, dependancy remedy or fight service, now describes himself as a “champion of second probabilities.”

McGreevey’s failed try at a political second likelihood follows Cuomo’s failed bid.

Unbiased mayoral candidate and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks to the press after voting at a polling place on the Excessive College of Artwork and Design within the Manhattan borough of New York Metropolis on November 4, 2025. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

Cuomo, who resigned as governor in 2021 amid a number of scandals, ran for mayor of New York Metropolis this 12 months. However he misplaced the June Democratic major to Mamdani.

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The previous governor, who stood as an impartial candidate for the final elections final month, misplaced to Mamdani for the second time.