Garnet Hall of Maplewood lost her bid for the Democratic nomination for NJ Assembly District 28 on Tuesday, per The New York Times.
The top two vote-getters in the three-person race — incumbent Cleopatra Tucker (D-Newark) and newcomer Chigozie Onyema (D-Newark) — move on to the November general election. They are expected to win. No candidates filed to run in the Republican primary.
Hall served for one term as an Assemblywoman.
The outcome leaves Maplewood (and by extension South Orange which shares a school district, fire department, municipal court and more with Maplewood) without a hometown representative in the Assembly. However, Onyema has close ties to SOMA: He grew up in Maplewood and graduated from Columbia High School.
The New York Times called the race for Tucker and Onyema after 10 p.m. with 74% of the vote counted. Tucker had 39% of votes and Onyema 37%.
