Geography
District 12 covers the farthest northeastern neighborhoods of the Bronx, including all of Williamsbridge, Bronx, Williamsbridge, Baychester, Bronx, Baychester, Co-op City, Bronx, Co-op City, and Eastchester, Bronx, Eastchester as well as part of Wakefield, Bronx, Wakefield. The district overlaps with Bronx Community boards of New York City, Community Boards Bronx Community Board 10, 10, Bronx Community Board 11, 11, and Bronx Community Board 12, 12, and is contained almost entirely within New York's 16th congressional district, with a small extension into the New York's 14th congressional district, 14th district. It also overlaps with the New York's 34th State Senate district, 34th and New York's 36th State Senate district, 36th districts of the New York State Senate, and with the 80th, 81st, 82nd, and 83rd districts of the New York State Assembly. With its population base in heavily-Black neighborhoods like Williamsbridge and Baychester, District 12 is the only majority-Black City Council district in the Bronx.Recent election results
2023 (redistricting)
Due to redistricting and the 2020 changes to the New York City Charter, councilmembers elected during the 2021 New York City Council election, 2021 and 2023 City Council elections will serve two-year terms, with full four-year terms resuming after the 2025 New York City Council elections.2021
In 2019, voters in New York City approved Ballot Question 1, which implemented Instant-runoff voting, 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 percent threshold. If one candidate surpasses 50 percent in first-choice votes, then ranked-choice tabulations will not occur.2020 special
In October 2020, Andy King (American politician), Andy King was expelled from the City Council for harassment, discrimination, and conflict of interest, triggering a special election for his seat. Like all municipal special elections in New York City, the race was officially nonpartisan, with all candidates running on ballot lines of their own creation.2017
2013
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