New York City's 10th City Council district is one of 51 districts in the
New York City Council
The New York City Council is the lawmaking body of New York City in the United States. It has 51 members from 51 council districts throughout the five boroughs.
The council serves as a check against the mayor in a mayor-council government mod ...
. It is currently represented by
Democrat Carmen De La Rosa, who took office in 2022.
Geography
District 10 covers the northernmost neighborhoods of
Manhattan
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, including
Washington Heights,
Inwood, and
Marble Hill.
The district overlaps with Manhattan
Community Board 12 and, because of Marble Hill (politically part of Manhattan but geographically part of
the Bronx
The Bronx ( ) is the northernmost of the five Boroughs of New York City, boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It shares a land border with Westchester County, New York, West ...
), Bronx Community Boards
7 and
8. It is contained entirely within
New York's 13th congressional district, and also overlaps with the
30th and
31st districts of the
New York State Senate
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and the 71st and 72nd 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 without term limits.
The Ass ...
.
At over 80 percent Hispanic, the district has by far the highest Hispanic population of any City Council district in Manhattan.
Dominican Americans
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are particularly concentrated in the district; its four most recent councilmembers have all been Dominican.
Recent election results
2025
2023 (redistricting)
Due to redistricting and the 2020 changes to the
New York City Charter
The New York City Charter is the municipal charter of New York City. As part of the 1898 consolidation of New York City, the New York State Legislature enacted a charter for the consolidated city (Laws of 1897, chapter 378, effective January 1, ...
, councilmembers elected during the
2021
Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
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
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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