EDISON -- The two school board candidates who were targeted in racist "Make Edison Great Again" mailers that made national headlines won seats in the election Tuesday.

Jerry Shi and Falguni Patel, who respectively claimed their seats with 6,259 and 6,115 votes, will serve a three-year term on the Edison Township Public Schools board.

Beth Moroney also won a seat on the board with 5,991 votes. Nine people vied for the three open spots.

The race in New Jersey's fifth most populous town gained notoriety last week after an unknown group sent mailers to homes in Edison proclaiming "Make Edison Great Again" and calling for the deportation of Shi and Patel.

"The Chinese and Indians are taking over our town," the postcards read. "Chinese school! Indian school! Cricket fields! Enough is enough."

Another candidate in Hoboken was also targeted in xenophobic fliers days before the election. Hoboken Councilman Ravi Bhalla, won his race to become the city's first Sikh mayor.

Those fliers were placed on car windshields in the city with the message "Don't let TERRORISM take over our town!" above a picture of Bhalla.

Officials with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice have said the fliers are part of a spike in racial hostility throughout the country since the 2016 election.

"I have not seen these explicitly racist fliers in the past," Scott Novakowski, associate counsel for New Jersey institute, said Monday. "It's a sign that this type of racism is being normalized."

Luke Nozicka may be reached at lnozicka@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @lukenozicka.

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