The Bronx’s lone Republican appeared headed to defeat Tuesday evening by her Democratic challenger in an Election Day that noticed an enormous voter turnout in New York and elsewhere.
In certainly one of simply three really contested Council races, incumbent Kristy Marmorato’s run because the consultant in District 13 within the Northeast Bronx was in peril of ending at one time period, as she sat slightly below 5% behind Shirley Aldebol, the Democratic celebration candidate and longtime labor union official, with 87% of the vote counted late Tuesday.
Aldebol was forward of Marmorato 51.5% to 46.5%, Board of Election outcomes confirmed. Marmorato’s potential defeat got here within the context of the very best voter turnout in additional than 5 a long time. Greater than two million New York voted on Tuesday, essentially the most since 1969, Board of Election figures present.
When she defeated Council Member Marjorie Velazquez in 2023, Marmorato grew to become the primary Republican elected within the Bronx in 40 years. She grew to become outstanding for opposing the Fortune Society’s Simply Residence housing improvement for previously incarcerated individuals on the Jacobi Medical Heart campus.
On Sept. 25, the Council authorized the challenge, regardless of the objections of Marmorato and Mayor Adams. “This was about power, ego and politics,” Marmorato stated on the time.
Earlier this yr, she campaigned towards a on line casino bid within the Bronx that was authorized in late September after Mayor Adams vetoed a Metropolis Council vote to dam the proposal. She was endorsed by the UFT and COBA.
Aldebol was a toddler welfare caseworker who has been an official with a collection of labor unions, notably working as organizing director in Puerto Rico for the American Federal of State, County and Municipal Staff. She criticized Marmorato for failing to get alongside together with her colleagues throughout the aisle, claiming that damage the district.
In District 30 in Maspeth and Center Village – an space nearly evenly cut up between registered Democrats and registered Republicans – the race was very a lot in-house for Democrat Phil Wong and Republican Alicia Vaichunas, each of whom work for term-limited Council Member Robert Holden.
Holden had really endorsed Curtis Sliwa within the mayoral race dubbing him “the only clear choice.” However within the Council race, Wong the Democrat with 55.2% of the vote was nicely forward of Vaichunas with 44.8% of the vote after 95% of the vote had been counted.
However there are, it seems, solely winners in that race, as every candidate pledged to rent their opponent, Metropolis and State beforehand reported.
In District 47 in Bay Ridge and Coney Island, Kayla Santosuosso, the term-limited Council Member Justin Brannan’s chief of workers, defeated Republican George Sarantopoulos 59.3% to 40.4%
“Southern Brooklyn is full of hardworking families who just want a fair shot – people who wake up early, word hard and deserve a city that works as hard as our own,” Santosuosso stated in victory. My dedication is to focus relentlessly on the problems that matter most.”
Lastly in District 19, incumbent Republican Vickie Paladino beat out firefighter Benjamin Chou 57.8% to 42% with 95% of the vote. With Marmorato’s loss, there are actually 5 Republicans within the Council with 46 Democrats.
The 4 races highlighted an Election Day with all 51 Council seats in play, however many had been destined to be held by Democrats or had been uncontested.
The subsequent Council can even function a brand new Council Speaker as Adrienne Adams is out by way of time period limits with Ty Hankerson succeeding in that district having run unopposed. Crystal Hudson and Julie Menin have emerged as favorites in that contest which is determined by a vote within the new Council.
