Where do Brooklyn’s City Council races stand?
BY BEN BRACHFELD, BEN VERDE
& MEAGHAN MCGOLDRICK
Brooklynites have selected a
new crop of candidates to represent
them in the City Council,
but most are waiting on rankedchoice
voting tabulation before
they can claim victory.
Still, in a handful of races,
candidates walked away with
more than 50 percent of the
vote on June 22, meaning there
are no further ranked-choice
voting rounds necessary. That
all but guarantees a clear path
to the Democratic nomination
(and for those without a Republican
challenger come November,
the seat).
In some races, there are
candidates with large leads,
but not enough to forgo RCV
And in others, it’s still anyone’s
race.
Though, things are still
unpredictable — even in races
where one candidate has a sizable
lead, and especially in
low-turnout local races. Last
year, several state legislative
races saw results fl ip from
what they were on Election
Night after counting absentee
ballots. Here’s what we know
about the races thus far:
First-round picks, where
no RCV is needed
In Council District 34,
candidate Jennifer Gutiérrez
crushed the competition,
coming out of Election Night
with nearly 80 percent of the
votes (which broke down to
11,683 votes with 96 percent of
precincts reporting, according
to the city Board of Elections).
The activist and chief
of staff to the incumbent, Antonio
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Reynoso, campaigned on
“community-based solutions,”
vowing to expand participatory
budgeting and view issues
through a “feminist lens.”
On Twitter, Gutiérrez
vowed to make the district —
which covers Williamsburg
and Bushwick, and crosses
the Queens border into Ridgewood
— proud.
Meanwhile, activist Bushwick
Council candidate Sandy
Nurse snagged over 51 percent
of the vote (4,905 votes with
nearly 97 percent of precincts
reporting) in the race to represent
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District 37, trouncing
Kings County Democratic Party
backed incumbent Darma
Diaz, who walked away with
just 24 percent of the vote
(2,286) after taking the seat
in a special election rife with
controversy and confusion.
The daughter of an immigrant
and single mother, Nurse
said her upbringing prepared
her to fi ght with and for the
district’s working-class community,
spanning Bushwick,
East New York, Cypress Hills,
Ocean Hill, and Brownsville.
Though hesitant to declare victory,
Nurse said she felt “confi -
dent” in Tuesday’s results.
“This is a victory for our
movements, and for the people
who have worked for years
in our district for real leadership,”
she said in a statement.
In District 41, where incumbent
Alicka Ampry-Samuel
and her three-term predecessor
Darlene Mealy were
fi ghting to represent parts of
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Ocean
Hill-Brownsville, East Flatbush,
and Crown Heights,
dark horse Mealy secured
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more than 57 percent of the
vote against Ampry-Samuel.
Mealy previously represented
the district from 2006
to 2017, at which point Ampry-
Samuel was elected. As she
fought to regain her old seat,
Mealy prioritized issues like
economic development, education,
and public safety, with
an emphasis on protecting
women.
In District 45, which includes
East Flatbush and
parts of Flatbush, Midwood,
Flatlands, and Kensington,
incumbent Farah Louis handily
beat back two challengers,
Anthony Beckford and Cyril
Joseph, winning 75.57 percent
of the vote with 98 percent of
precincts reporting.
Substantial leads going
into RCV
In District 33, encompassing
Greenpoint, Downtown
Brooklyn, Boerum Hill,
DUMBO, Brooklyn Heights,
and part of Williamsburg, Lincoln
Restler is running well
above all of his opponents, nabbing
48.22 percent of the vote
with 96.62 percent of precincts
reporting, just short of a ma-
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