Congress Member Jerry Nadler won a stunning landslide victory in the all-Manhattan 12th Congressional District race, knocking off his House colleague of more than 30 years, Carolyn Maloney.
Meanwhile, the wide-open Democratic primary race for the 10th Congressional District is proving to be the tight contest it was expected to be, with Trump impeachment lawyer Dan Goldman and Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou currently sitting atop the standings, a few hundred votes separating them.
Regarding the 12th District contest, Nadler had a more than 25,000-vote lead over Maloney, with 99% of all scanners counted, according to the New York City Board of Elections.
The two long-term incumbents engaged in a bitter rivalry over the last few months for the 12th District seat after the madcap redistricting process put them in the very same district.
Insurgent Suraj Patel was a distant third.
Despite the sometimes rancorous nature of the primary, Nadler publicly thanked Maloney at his victory party “for her decades of service to our city.” The 75-year-old Nadler, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, pledged to return to Capitol Hill “with a mandate to fight for the causes so many of us know to be right,” including abortion access and climate change.
On the other side, Maloney said women in politics still face “misogyny” today, something she said she experienced herself in her campaign this year.
“I’m really saddened that we no longer have a woman representing Manhattan in Congress,” Maloney added. “It has been a great, great honor and a joy and a privilege to work for you.”
Turning to District 10, Goldman had a roughly 1,200-vote edge on Niou with 98.77% of the scanners reported, which apparently made him confident enough to declare victory Tuesday evening. Still, there are thousands of absentee ballots yet to be counted, and the outcome could easily change given the tight Primary Day margin.
The Democratic and Republican primaries in the 11th Congressional District covering southern Brooklyn and Staten Island were no surprise: Democratic former Congress Member Max Rose and incumbent Republican Congress Member Nicole Malliotakis won their primaries and will advance to a rematch of their bitter 2020 election this November.
Citywide, Tuesday’s primary turnout was anemic, according to reports. Just 237,888 voter check-ins (including about 80,000 early voters) were counted as of 6 p.m. Aug. 23, according to the New York City Board of Elections.
A wide-open field of 13 candidates are battling it out for the Democratic nomination for the 10th Congressional District. The five leading contenders for that seat, as noted in recent polls, include Goldman and Niou, along with Hudson Valley Congress Member Mondaire Jones, City Council Member Carlina Rivera and former Congress Member Elizabeth Holtzman.
Just four incumbent Democratic Congress members representing areas of New York City did not face a primary challenge and are awaiting the November election: Gregory Meeks (5th District, Queens); Grace Meng (6th District, Queens), Yvette Clarke (9th District, Brooklyn) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (14th District, Bronx/Queens).
Manhattan voters in five state Senate districts also got to elect their nominees to represent them in Albany next year. (Click here for state Senate race results in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx.)
Below are the citywide returns and reports on Manhattan races below (projected winners will have a √ in front of their names). All returns from the state and city Boards of Elections are preliminary.
Check amNY.com Wednesday for additional primary coverage.
NYC Congressional Primaries (cumulative totals)
3rd District (Northeast Queens, Long Island — 99% of precincts reporting)
Robert Zimmerman | 35.2% (9,482) |
Jon Kaiman | 25.55% (6,884) |
Josh Lafazan | 19.66% (5,296) |
Melanie D’Arrigo | 15.58% (4,197) |
Reema Rasool | 2.45% (661) |
7th District (Brooklyn, Queens — 97.37% of scanners reporting)
√-Nydia Velazquez (i) | 83.14% (21,470) |
Paperboy Love Prince | 15.51% (4,006) |
8th District (Brooklyn — 98.02% of scanners reporting)
√-Hakeem Jeffries (i) | 86.83% (22,196) |
Queen Johnson | 12.57% (3,214) |
10th District (north/central Brooklyn, Lower Manhattan — 98.77% of scanners reporting)
Daniel Goldman | 25.72% (16,686) |
Yuh-Line Niou | 23.71% (15,380) |
Mondaire Jones | 18.16% (11,777) |
Carlina Rivera | 16.93% (10,985) |
JoAnne Simon | 6.15% (3,991) |
Elizabeth Holtzman | 4.39% (2,845) |
Jimmy Li | 1.2% (777) |
Yan Xiong | 1.06% (686) |
Maud Maron | 0.89% (578) |
Bill de Blasio | 0.74% (477) |
Brian Robinson | 0.5% (322) |
Peter Gleason | 0.23% (147) |
Quanda Francis | 0.19% (121) |
11th District (Brooklyn/Staten Island-Democratic — 99% of scanners reporting)
√-Max Rose | 74.31% (15,871) |
Brittany Ramos Debarros | 20.6% (4,399) |
Komi Agoda-Koussema | 4.21% (899) |
11th District (Brooklyn/Staten Island-Republican — 99% of scanners reporting)
√-Nicole Malliotakis (i) |
77.86% (12,212) |
John Matland | 21.35% (3,348) |
12th District (most of Manhattan — 99% of scanners reporting)
√-Jerry Nadler (i) | 55.35% (45,545) |
Carolyn Maloney (i) | 24.35% (20,038) |
Suraj Patel | 19.13% (15,744) |
Ashmi Sheth | 1.01% (883) |
13th District (Upper Manhattan, western Bronx — 98.56% of scanners reporting)
√-Adriano Espaillat (i) | 79.92% (29,782) |
Michael Hano | 12.64% (4,709) |
Francisco Spies | 6.13% (2,286) |
14th District (Bronx, Queens – Republican — 99% of precincts reporting)
Tina Forte |
66.58% (1,530) |
Desi Joseph Cuellar | 31.42% (722) |
16th District (Bronx, Westchester — 62.8% of precincts reporting)
Jamaal Bowman (i) | 55.5% (13,940) |
Vedat Gashi | 23.06% (5,792) |
Catherine Parker | 19.08% (4,792) |
Mark Jaffe | 1.79% (450) |
Manhattan State Senate Districts
27th District (Manhattan areas south of 14th Street — 99% of scanners reporting)
√-Brian Kavanagh (i) | 58.08% (13,082) |
Vittoria Fariello | 29.01% (6,535) |
Danyela Souza Egorov | 12.31% (2,773) |
30th District (Upper West Side, Morningside Heights, Harlem, East Harlem, Hamilton Heights and Washington Heights — 99% of scanners reporting)
√-Cordell Cleare (i) | 69.7% (12,900) |
Shana Harmongoff | 29.36% (5,435) |
31st District (Hamilton Heights, Washington Heights, Inwood and the Bronx — 96.74% of scanners reporting)
√-Robert Jackson (i) | 57.9% (9,868) |
Angel Vasquez | 32.82% (5,594) |
Francesca Castellanos | 4.92% (838) |
Ruben Dario Vargas | 3.96% (675) |
47th District (West Village, Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen and the Upper West Side — 99% of scanners reporting)
√-Brad Hoylman (i) | 72.66% (27,814) |
Maria Danzilo |
26.85% (10,279) |
59th District (East Side, Gramercy, Kips Bay, northern Brooklyn, western Queens — 99% of scanners reporting)
√-Kristen Gonzalez | 58.14% (13,115) |
Elizabeth Crowley | 32.51% (7,333) |
Michael Corbett | 6.48% (1,461) |
Nomiki Konst | 1.56% (351) |
Francoise Olivas | 1.12% (252) |