Mayor Ray Coles and Deborah Fuentes have each picked up more than 700 votes since election night, as Ocean County keeps counting ballots in the Lakewood Township Committee race, the updated unofficial results show.
The results have Democrat Raymond Coles at 15,516 votes and Republican Deborah Fuentes at 14,951 for the committee’s two seats. Republican Moshe Raitzik has 9,402, Democrat Samantha Stokes has 4,006, and there are 436 write-ins.
Coles initially had 14,757 and Fuentes 14,234. That is 759 more votes for Coles and 717 more for Fuentes. Fuentes now leads Raitzik for the second seat by 5,549 votes.
In the Lakewood fire commissioner race, Dovid Bender has 15,891 votes and Harrison Pfeffer 11,977, ahead of Larry “Levi” Loigman’s 5,592. Lakewood’s township public question is losing, 12,068 No to 5,473 Yes.
In Jackson, Elliott Shem-Tov has 10,699 votes for mayor, ahead of Mayor Jennifer Kuhn’s 8,901 and Brandon Rose’s 2,917.
All of the numbers are still unofficial. The county’s turnout table lists no provisional ballots counted yet.
The results become official in about 10 days.
ICYMI: See how Lakewood voted here.
