Mayor Lori Hohenleitner
A recount of the November election held at by the Monmouth County Bord of Elections today names Councilwoman Lori Hohenleitner as winner in her bid for election to the post of mayor, it was confirmed this afternoon.
Hohenleitner won the election by five votes, defeating Councilman James Murphy for the position.
Since Murphy is serving in the second year of a three-year term, he will continue to hold his seat as a member of the six-member council.
When the newly elected are installed during reorganization ceremonies January 1, Murphy will be the only Republican on the seven-member governing body.
Mayor Loretta Gluckstein did not seek a second term.
The council members, in addition to Murphy, will be Jon Crowley, elected to another term, Vito Colasurdo, Eileen Cusack, Brian Dougherty and Alyson Forbes, who won election to her first term in the election.
