Middletown School Board Race Still Not Finalized

MIDDLETOWN, NJ — The 2025 Middletown school board race is still undecided.

The Monmouth County Board of Elections will start counting the late mail-in and provisional ballots at 10 a.m. Wednesday (Nov. 12), an administrator with the Board of Elections told Patch Tuesday.

The 2025 general election will be certified Nov. 19. That means the election results will be made final on that date.

"We don't know; we are still waiting to see what the county says, and when the county makes it official," BOE candidate James Cody told Patch Tuesday.

As of Tuesday, Cody is ahead of his running mate Sara Weinstein by an extremely narrow, .02 percent lead.

Still, he said he and Weinstein "have not talked" about whether she will officially concede the election.

"We have not talked about it," said Cody. "We are waiting for the county."

From the Monmouth County clerk, here are the vote counts in the 2025 Middletown school board election as of Nov. 11:

• James Dobis: 10,981 votes, 16.09 percent of the vote
• Chris Aveta: 11,527 votes, 16.89 percent of the vote
• James Cody: 11,333 votes, 16.61 percent of the vote
• Sara Weinstein: 11,323 votes, 16.59 percent of the vote
• Leonora Lacqua-Caminiti: 5,733 votes, 8.40 percent of the vote
• Joseph Fitzgerald: 5,450 votes, 7.99 percent of the vote
• Erin Torres: 11,483 votes, 16.83 percent of the vote