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New York City's 25th City Council District
New York City's 25th City Council district is one of 51 districts in the New York City Council. It is currently represented by Democrat Shekar Krishnan. Geography District 25 is based in the northwestern Queens neighborhoods of Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst, and Elmhurst. The district overlaps with Queens Community Boards 3 and 4, and with New York's 6th and 14th congressional districts. It also overlaps with the 12th, 13th, and 16th districts of the New York State Senate, and with the 30th, 34th, 35th, 36th, and 39th districts of the New York State Assembly. Recent election results 2021 In 2019, voters in New York City approved Ballot Question 1, which implemented ranked-choice voting in all local elections. Under the new system, voters have the option to rank up to five candidates for every local office. Voters whose first-choice candidates fare poorly will have their votes redistributed to other candidates in their ranking until one candidate surpasses the 50 pe ...
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New York City Council District 25 (2013)
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New York's 6th Congressional District
New York's 6th congressional district is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in New York City, located entirely within Queens. It is represented by Democrat Grace Meng. A plurality of the district's population is Asian-American, and a majority of its population is non-white. The district includes several racially and ethnically diverse Queens neighborhoods, including Auburndale, Bayside, Elmhurst, Flushing, Forest Hills, Glendale, Kew Gardens, Maspeth, Middle Village, Murray Hill, and Rego Park. After redistricting, in 2023 the district will include sections of Jackson Heights and Astoria which were previously part of NY-14. Voting History 1789–1913: :Parts of Manhattan 1913-1945: :Parts of Brooklyn 1945-1973: :Parts of Queens 1973-1983: :Parts of Nassau, Queens 1983–present: :Parts of Queens Various New York districts have been numbered "6" over the years, including areas in New York City and various parts of ups ...
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Daniel Dromm
Daniel Dromm (born November 27, 1955) is an American politician who served in the New York City Council from the 25th district from 2010 to 2021. He is a Democrat. The district includes East Elmhurst, Elmhurst and Jackson Heights in Queens. Life and career Dromm was born in Rego Park, but his family moved to Oyster Bay on Long Island when he was 5, and later to Manhasset when he was 9. He attended Catholic schools. Dromm graduated from Marist College and earned his master's degree at City College. A resident of Jackson Heights, Dromm began his first career as a public school teacher in 1984 at P.S. 199 in Sunnyside. As an educator, he promoted teaching acceptance of LGBT individuals through the Rainbow Curriculum and publicly came out in 1992. Heavily involved in the Queens County Democratic Party, he served as Democratic District Leader in the 39th assembly district. He is one of the first two openly gay City Council members from outside Manhattan. Dromm was feature ...
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2017 New York City Council Election
Elections for members of the New York City Council were held on November 7, 2017. Primary elections were held on September 12 for all 51 districts of the city council. Incumbents not seeking re-election Term-limited incumbents # Rosie Méndez (D), District 2 #Daniel Garodnick (D), District 4 # Melissa Mark-Viverito (D), District 8 # James Vacca (D), District 13 # Annabel Palma (D), District 18 # Darlene Mealy (D), District 41 # Vincent J. Gentile (D), District 43 Retiring incumbents # Julissa Ferreras (D), District 21 # David G. Greenfield (D), District 44 Results Manhattan District 1 ;Democratic primary ;General election District 2 Incumbent Democrat Rosie Mendez was term-limited and could not run for a third term. ;Democratic primary ;General election District 3 Incumbent Democrat Corey Johnson was unopposed in the Democratic primary. ;General election District 4 Incumbent Democrat Daniel Garodnick was term-limi ...
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2021 New York City Council Election
The 2021 New York City Council election were held on November 2, 2021. The primary elections were held on June 22, 2021. There were several special elections for seats vacated in 2020 and early 2021; these special elections were the first to use ranked-choice voting in city council elections after it was approved by a ballot question in 2019. Due to redistricting after the 2020 Census, candidates also ran for two-year terms instead of four-year terms for the first time, stemming from the New York City Charter overhaul in 1989. Four-year terms will resume in the 2025 election after another two-year election in 2023. Incumbents not seeking re-election Term-limited incumbents 28 council members (26 Democrats and 2 Republicans) are prevented from seeking a third (fourth for pre-2010 council members) consecutive term due to term limits that were renewed by voters in a ballot referendum in 2010. Retiring incumbents Incumbents defeated in primary Resigned before ...
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New York City's 50th City Council District
New York City's 50th City Council district is one of 51 districts in the New York City Council. It has been represented by Republican David Carr since the end of 2021. Carr was the chief of staff to former Councilman Steven Matteo. Matteo was term-limited in 2021 and ran unsuccessfully for Staten Island Borough President. Geography District 50 covers a large swath of Mid-Island Staten Island, including the neighborhoods of New Dorp, Midland Beach, Dongan Hills, South Beach, Arrochar, Bloomfield, Bulls Head, Castleton Corners, Chelsea, Egbertville, Emerson Hill, Grant City, Grasmere, Lighthouse Hill, Manor Heights, Meiers Corners, Oakwood, Old Town, Richmondtown, Shore Acres, Todt Hill, Travis, Westerleigh, Willowbrook, and parts of Concord, Graniteville, Heartland Village, New Springville, and Rosebank. Between 2001 and 2010, the district covered Mid-Island, in addition to a portion of Dyker Heights and Bath Beach in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn portion was ...
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New York City's 9th City Council District
New York City's 9th City Council district is one of 51 districts in the New York City Council. It is currently represented by Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Kristin Richardson Jordan, who took office in 2022. Geography District 9 is based in Harlem in upper Manhattan, also covering smaller parts of East Harlem, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan, Hamilton Heights, and Manhattanville, Manhattan, Manhattanville. St. Nicholas Park and Marcus Garvey Park are both located in the district. The district overlaps with Manhattan Community boards of New York City, Community Boards Manhattan Community Board 9, 9, Manhattan Community Board 10, 10, and Manhattan Community Board 11, 11, and is contained entirely within New York's 13th congressional district. It also overlaps with the New York's 29th State Senate district, 29th, New York's 30th State Senate district, 30th, and New York's 31st State Senate district, 31st districts of the New York State Senate, and with the 68th, 69th, 70th, ...
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Instant-runoff Voting
Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is a type of Ranked voting, ranked preferential Electoral system, voting method. It uses a Majority rule, majority voting rule in single-winner elections where there are more than two candidates. It is commonly referred to as ranked-choice voting (RCV) Ranked-choice voting in the United States, in the United States (although there are other forms of ranked voting), preferential voting in Australia, where it has seen the widest adoption; in the United Kingdom, it is generally called alternative vote (AV), whereas in some other countries it is referred to as the single transferable vote, which usually means only its multi-winner variant. All these names are often used inconsistently. Voters in IRV elections rank the candidates in order of preference. Ballots are initially counted for each voter's top choice. If a candidate has Majority, more than half of the first-choice votes, that candidate wins. If not, then the candidate with the fewest votes is elim ...
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New York State Assembly
The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150 seats in the Assembly. Assembly members serve two-year terms without term limits. The Assembly convenes at the State Capitol in Albany. Leadership of the Assembly The Speaker of the Assembly presides over the Assembly. The Speaker is elected by the Majority Conference followed by confirmation of the full Assembly through the passage of an Assembly Resolution. In addition to presiding over the body, the Speaker also has the chief leadership position, and controls the flow of legislation and committee assignments. The minority leader is elected by party caucus. The majority leader of the Assembly is selected by, and serves, the Speaker. Democrat Carl Heastie of the 83rd Assembly District has served as Speaker of the Assembly since February 2015. Crystal Peoples-Stokes of the 141st Assembly District has served as Assembly ...
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New York State Senate
The New York State Senate is the upper house of the New York State Legislature; the New York State Assembly is its lower house. Its members are elected to two-year terms; there are no term limits. There are 63 seats in the Senate. Partisan composition The New York State Senate was dominated by the Republican Party for much of the 20th century. Between World War II and the turn of the 21st century, the Democratic Party only controlled the upper house for one year. The Democrats took control of the Senate following the 1964 elections; however, the Republicans quickly regained a Senate majority in special elections later that year. By 2018, the State Senate was the last Republican-controlled body in New York government. In the 2018 elections, Democrats gained eight Senate seats, taking control of the chamber from the Republicans. In the 2020 elections, Democrats won a total of 43 seats, while Republicans won 20; the election results gave Senate Democrats a veto-proof two-thirds s ...
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New York's 16th State Senate District
New York (state), New York's 16th State Senate district is one of 63 districts in the New York State Senate. It has been represented by Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Toby Ann Stavisky since 1999, following her victory in a special election to succeed her late husband Leonard P. Stavisky, Leonard Stavisky. Geography District 16 covers a narrow stretch of central Queens, including parts of the neighborhoods of Flushing, Queens, Flushing, Forest Hills, Queens, Forest Hills, Elmhurst, Queens, Elmhurst, Murray Hill, Queens, Murray Hill, Bayside, Queens, Bayside, and Woodside, Queens, Woodside. The district overlaps with New York's New York's 6th congressional district, 6th and New York's 14th congressional district, 14th congressional districts, and with the 24th, New York's 25th State Assembly district, 25th, 26th, 27th, New York's 28th State Assembly district, 28th, 30th, 34th, 35th, 39th, and 40th districts of the New York State Assembly. Recent election results 2020 ...
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New York's 13th State Senate District
New York's 13th State Senate district is one of 63 districts in the New York State Senate. It has been represented by Democrat Jessica Ramos since 2019. Ramos defeated IDC-aligned incumbent José Peralta in the 2018 primary election; Peralta began his own Senate career by ousting corrupt Democratic incumbent Hiram Monserrate in a 2010 special election. Geography District 13 is centered around the Queens neighborhood of Jackson Heights, and includes Corona, Elmhurst, East Elmhurst, and parts of Astoria and Woodside. The district office is located in East Elmhurst on Junction Boulevard. The district overlaps with New York's 6th and 14th congressional districts, and with the 27th, 30th, 34th, 35th, 36th, and 39th districts of the New York State Assembly The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150 seats in the Assembly. Assembly members serve two-year terms wi ...
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