{"id":122242,"date":"2026-02-04T03:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122242\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T03:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:37:27","slug":"special-nyc-elections-2026-moreno-wins-mamdanis-district-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122242\/","title":{"rendered":"Special NYC elections 2026: Moreno wins Mamdani\u2019s district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The representatives for three state Legislature seats were decided Tuesday evening in special elections in Manhattan and Queens.<\/p>\n<p>The seats that were up for election were in the 36th Assembly District in Queens, the 74th Assembly District in Manhattan and the 47th Senate District in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a recap of who won, and check out the results page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/politics\/election-results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>36th Assembly District in Queens<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Diana Moreno is the projected winner in the race for the 36th state Assembly in Queens, according to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Moreno ran against Rana Abdelhamid, who was on the &#8220;Queens for All&#8221; Party line, and Mary Jobaida, who was on the &#8220;People First&#8221; Party line.<\/p>\n<p>The Queens district covers much of western and central Astoria, Ditmars, Astoria Heights and northern Long Island City.<\/p>\n<p>Zohran Mamdani, who won the position in 2020, vacated the Assembly seat <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/manhattan\/news\/2026\/01\/01\/zohran-mamdani-addresses-new-yorkers-as-nyc-s-mayor-at-inauguration-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">when he became mayor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>47th Senate District in Manhattan<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Erik Bottcher is the projected winner in the race for the 47th state Senate District in Manhattan, according to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Bottcher ran against Charlotte Friedman, who was on the Republican Party line.<\/p>\n<p>The Manhattan district includes neighborhoods such as Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Hell\u2019s Kitchen and the Upper West Side, along with part of Central Park.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who won the position in 2022, vacated the Senate seat when he took on <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2025\/11\/05\/nyc-november-general-election-2025-wrap-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the role of Manhattan borough president<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>74th Assembly District in Manhattan<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Keith Powers is the projected winner in the race for the 74th state Assembly District in Manhattan, according to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Powers ran against Joseph Foley, who was on the Republican and Conservative Party lines.<\/p>\n<p>The Manhattan district includes the Lower East Side, East Village and Midtown East.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey Epstein, who won the seat in 2018, vacated the position when he became the City Council member for District 2 in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Powers was a former City Council member for District 4 in Manhattan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The representatives for three state Legislature seats were decided Tuesday evening in special elections in Manhattan and Queens.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[109,25,313,75,9,24,12,63,87,122,124,123,3476,856,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-122242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-deanna-garcia","11":"tag-manhattan","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-queens","18":"tag-queens-headlines","19":"tag-queens-news","20":"tag-state-assembly","21":"tag-state-senate","22":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}