Princeton Democrats swept the city’s partisan election, while the nonpartisan Board of Education election is still too close to call. With 100 percent of districts reporting and the last update was at 12:11 a.m. on November 6, results They continue to run for local elections in Princeton.

The races for mayor and two city council seats were uncontested, as Mayor Mark Freda and Councilman Leighton Newlin won re-election and Brian McDonald ’83 was elected to replace outgoing Councilwoman Eve Niedergang GS ’85.

At the federal level, Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) won the vacant New Jersey Senate seat, replacing former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.). Additionally, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) was re-elected to her seat representing New Jersey’s 12th District, which includes Princeton.

The three Democrats who ran for the Mercer County Board of Commissioners, Samuel Frisby, Kristin L. McLaughlin and Terrance Stokes, won a seat on the Board.

As for the Princeton Board of Education, Mara Franceschi has strong leadership and The Daily Princetonian projects that she will retain her seat on the Board. However, the race for the second and third seats will be close, with Chris Santarpio, Ari Meisel and Erica Snyder within 300 votes of each other.

Mayor Freda reflected on the election season for the ‘Prince’ and said: “There was a lot of energy and a lot of people working hard. “I’m on the Democratic side and our party in Princeton has been very, very engaged.”

Newlin, who was elected to his second term on the council, told the ‘Prince’ that it feels “an honor and a privilege at the same time to represent the 32,000 people here at Princeton.”

Newlin credits Niedergang with being his mentor on the board and says he still has more to learn.

“Now I feel like a senior and I left the freshman class,” Newlin said in an interview with the ‘Prince.’ “I’m going to try to keep doing my job and keep improving to make Princeton everything it can be.”

McDonald, who was elected to his first term on the council, categorized his most important issues into four categories: providing services while minimizing tax increases, managing a growing community, caring for vulnerable communities and sustainability.

“I am very pleased to be able to continue my long history of service to the city of Princeton in this role and look forward to the next three years working with the mayor and my council colleagues on a number of important issues that will require much thought and consideration.” careful,” McDonald said in an interview with the ‘Prince’.

For Newlin, the most important issues were “affordable housing, affordable housing, and affordable housing.”

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Freda echoed those concerns, saying: “We have a number of things we want to achieve to help the people of the city. We want to try to address housing and several other issues. “I look forward to working with the other elected officials and doing more for the city.”

Although Democrats did well in partisan elections in Princeton, the party struggled throughout New Jersey. Although the Associated Press has called New Jersey for Vice President Kamala Harris (D), it appears she will win the state by a much narrower margin than President Joe Biden (D) did four years ago.

Charlie Roth is senior news editor and assistant data editor at The Prince.

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