{"id":276674,"date":"2026-06-24T15:07:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276674\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T15:07:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:07:44","slug":"lower-manhattan-primary-results-one-state-assembly-race-too-close-to-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276674\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Manhattan Primary Results: One State Assembly Race Too Close to Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Election combo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"&lt;p&gt;With 85% of votes counted Wednesday morning, Jeannine Kiely led David Siffert by 56 votes in the State Assembly District 66 race. Photos: Carl Glassman\/Tribeca Trib&lt;\/p&gt;&#13;&#10;\" class=\"imagecache imagecache-standaloneslideshow imagecache-default imagecache-standaloneslideshow_default\" width=\"728\" height=\"460\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p>With 85% of votes counted Wednesday morning, Jeannine Kiely led David Siffert by 56 votes in the State Assembly District 66 race. Photos: Carl Glassman\/Tribeca Trib<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;\">Just 56 votes Wednesday morning separated Jeannine Kiely from her closest rival, David Siffert, in Tuesday\u2019s Democratic primary race to represent a large swath of Lower Manhattan, including Tribeca, in the state\u2019s Assembly District 66. With 85% of the votes counted\u20144,169 to 4,113\u2014a winner had yet to be called. After holding that seat for 35 years, Deborah Glick chose not to run again.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"caption\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Grace Lee-1_DxO-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 370px; float: right;\" title=\"Assemblywoman Grace Lee defeated Yuh-Line Niou, a former Assemblywoman, in Lower Manhattan's State Senate race. Photo: Carl Glassman\/Tribeca Trib\" \/>In the contest for Lower Manhattan\u2019s 27th State Senate District, current state Assemblywoman Grace Lee handily defeated Yuh-Line Niou, 62% to 37%.\u00a0 The office had been held by Brian Kavanagh, who declined to run again.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;\">Illapa Sairitupac was the clear victor among the seven candidates vying for a seat in Lower Manhattan\u2019s 65th Assembly District, which covers the Financial District, Chinatown and the Lower East Side.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;\">Former city controller Brad Lander defeated incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman to represent Lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn in the 10th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;\">Here are the results, as reported by the Times Union of Albany, with about 85% of the votes counted.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">U.S. Congressional District 10<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">Brad Lander 65.8%<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">Dan Goldman 34%<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">State Senate District 27<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">Grace Lee 62%<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">Yuh-Line Niou 37%<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">State Assembly District 65<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">Illapa Sairitupac 36%<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">Jasmin Sanchez 17.6%<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">Wei-Li Tjong 15.4%<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">Jay Wong 15.3%<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">Mariama James 10.3%<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">Lilah Mejia 4.5%<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">State Assembly District 66<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">Jeannine Kiely 27.6%<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">David Siffert 27.2%<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">Ryder Kessler 22.7%<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">Benjamin Yee 14%<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">Corinne Arnold 4.5%<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">Furhan Ahmad 3.8%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With 85% of votes counted Wednesday morning, Jeannine Kiely led David Siffert by 56 votes in the State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-276674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276674","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=276674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}