{"id":121044,"date":"2026-02-03T07:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121044\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T07:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:38:17","slug":"bayonne-reverses-course-on-required-signatures-for-ward-council-races-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121044\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayonne reverses course on required signatures for ward council races, again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The City of Bayonne has reversed course on the number of signed petitions of nomination required to make the May 12th ballot, again, after announcing a reduction on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Twitter photo.<\/p>\n

By John Heinis\/Hudson County View<\/p>\n

City Clerk Madelene Medina said last week<\/a> that 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Ward council candidates need 25 petitions to make the non-partisan spring ballot, significantly less than what was announced on January 14th<\/a>, both as HCV first reported.<\/p>\n

However, since Wednesday, the Bayonne Law Department confirmed that Bill A-5117\/S-3994, which was signed into law by then-Gov. Phil Murphy (D), sets the number of
\u0f0b required petitions based on the 2020 Census.<\/p>\n

The 2020 Census reports that the 1st Ward population is 23,620, the 2nd Ward population is 23,746, and the 3rd Ward population is 24,320.<\/p>\n

Therefore, council candidates for each ward require at least 50 valid signatures based on the population range of 10,000 to 25,000 residents in each ward.<\/p>\n

According to the 2020 census, which reported Bayonne\u2019s population as 71,686, candidates for mayor and council member at-large must obtain at least 100 valid signatures, the same as what was announced on January 28th.<\/p>\n

Petitions are available at the clerk\u2019s office at Bayonne City Hall, located at 630 Avenue C,\u00a0 Monday through Friday, except holidays, from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

The filing date for the signature certificates and other required documents is Thursday, February 26th, at 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Bayonne has reversed course on the number of signed petitions of nomination required to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[47989,34079,53087,34726,53088,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-121044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-2026-bayonne-city-council-races","tag-2026-bayonne-mayoral-race","tag-bayonne-city-clerks-office","tag-joe-ryan","tag-madelene-medina","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}