Geography
District 8 covers several majority-Hispanic neighborhoods in northern Manhattan and the South Bronx, including Mott Haven, Bronx, Mott Haven, Port Morris, Bronx, Port Morris, most of East Harlem, and parts of Highbridge, Bronx, Highbridge, Concourse, Bronx, Concourse, and Longwood, Bronx, Longwood. Randalls and Wards Islands are also a part of the district. The district overlaps with Manhattan Community boards of New York City, Community Board Manhattan Community Board 11, 11 and Bronx Community Boards Bronx Community Board 1, 1, Bronx Community Board 2, 2, and Bronx Community Board 4, 4, and with New York's New York's 12th congressional district, 12th, New York's 13th congressional district, 13th, and New York's 15th congressional district, 15th congressional districts. 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 32nd State Senate district, 32nd districts of the New York State Senate, and with the 68th, 77th, 84th, and 85th districts of the New York State Assembly. The district is only one of two in the City Council to span two different boroughs, the other being the New York City's 34th City Council district, 34th district in Brooklyn and Queens. Although the 8th district's population is split evenly across Manhattan and the Bronx, its five most recent councilmembers have all hailed from Manhattan.Recent election results
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.2017
2013
References
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