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Last week’s Primary Election drew more than 1 million voters across the city, and more than 500,000 Brooklynites — more than ...
The Democratic majority in the Brooklyn Board of Aldermen yesterday changed ward boundaries to salt certain ward bosses and convert what are now Republican districts into Democratic strongholds.
The Assembly map held up a little longer, but, in June, an appeals court ruled that it too was unconstitutional and had to be redrawn in time for the 2024 elections — but that the legislature-drawn ...
Trump sweeps in southern Brooklyn, and local Republicans make gains . Trump won in six Assembly districts in southern Brooklyn as neighborhoods like Sheepshead Bay, Coney Island, Brighton Beach ...
This much isn’t in dispute: Lester Chang, a Republican who ran in a heavily Asian section of south central Brooklyn, won a race for New York State Assembly last month. Whether he ever gets to ...
South Brooklyn’s Senate District 22 includes several key Brooklyn neighborhoods: Midwood, Flatbush, Borough Park, Madison, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, Gravesend and Sheepshead Bay.
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Chang, a 61-year-old retired U.S. Navy reservist who had a career in the global shipping industry, defeated Assemblyman Peter Abbate on Nov. 8 in Brooklyn’s 49th Assembly District.
And though U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican nominee for governor, lost in all of Brooklyn to Governor Kathy Hochul by a margin of 28.3% to 70.8%, he handily won in Southern Brooklyn. The new 17th ...
Zohran Mamdani’s projected victory in Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary was propelled by a surge in voters from historically Black and Hispanic neighborhoods coming out to support ...
Election rules require legislative candidates to live in the same county as their districts in redistricting years like 2022 when new lines took hold as part of the decennial map-making process.
ALBANY, N.Y.ALBANY, N.Y. — In an election in which Republicans underperformed nationally, Lester Chang was a success story. He beat a New York City Democrat who’d been in office for almost 36 ...