WASHINGTON – Voters in New Jersey’s second-largest city will get another chance to elect a new mayor Tuesday in a runoff election . The race pits a Jersey City council member against a former governor attempting a political comeback more than two decades after resigning in scandal.

Councilman James Solomon and former Gov. Jim McGreevey were the top two vote-getters among seven candidates in the Nov. 4 general election , but neither received the vote majority needed to avoid Tuesday’s runoff. Both are Democrats, although the office is nonpartisan. The winner will replace outgoing Mayor Steven Fulop, who lost the Democratic primary for governor in June.

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Solomon was first elected to the council in 2017 after stints as an adjunct professor in Jersey City. He pr

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