Queens residents can vote in the mayoral, public advocate, and city comptroller races, as well as the local contests in the borough.\n<\/p>\n
QNS will be at polling sites across the borough speaking to voters throughout the day. Stay tuned for more updates.\n<\/p>\n
Below are the races taking place across Queens:\n<\/p>\n
Mayor:\u00a0Zohran Kwame Mamdani\u00a0(Democrat\/Working Families),\u00a0Curtis A. Sliwa\u00a0(Republican\/Protect Animals),\u00a0Andrew M. Cuomo\u00a0(Fight and Deliver),\u00a0Irene Estrada\u00a0(Conservative),\u00a0Jim Walden\u00a0(Integrity),\u00a0Joseph Hernandez\u00a0(Quality of Life) and\u00a0Eric L. Adams\u00a0(Safe and Affordable\/End Antisemitism).<\/p>\n
Public Advocate:\u00a0Jumaane D. Williams\u00a0(Democrat\/Working Families),\u00a0Gonzalo Duran\u00a0(Republican\/Conservative\/United Alliance) and\u00a0Marty Dolan\u00a0(The Unity).<\/p>\n
City Comptroller:\u00a0Mark D. Levine\u00a0(Democrat),\u00a0Peter Kefalas\u00a0(Republican\/Conservative) and\u00a0Ismael Malave Perez\u00a0(The Unity).\n<\/p>\n
Borough President:\u00a0Donovan J. Richards Jr.\u00a0(Democrat) and\u00a0Henry P. Ikezi\u00a0(Republican\/United Alliance).\n<\/p>\n
Justices of the Supreme Court \u2013 11th Judicial Circuit\u00a0(Vote for any five):\u00a0Sandra Perez\u00a0(Democrat),\u00a0Gary Muraca\u00a0(Republican\/Conservative),\u00a0Ira R. Greenberg\u00a0(Democrat),\u00a0Richard Felix\u00a0(Republican),\u00a0Gary F. Miret\u00a0(Democrat),\u00a0Frances Y. Wang\u00a0(Democrat) and\u00a0Soma S. Syed\u00a0(Democrat).<\/p>\n
Queens County Civil Court Judge\u00a0(Vote for any three):\u00a0Sheridan C. Chu\u00a0(Democrat),\u00a0William David Shanahan\u00a0(Republican\/Conservative),\u00a0Indira D. Khan\u00a0(Democrat),\u00a0Susan M. Silverman\u00a0(Republican\/Conservative),\u00a0Oma D. Phillips\u00a0(Democrat) and\u00a0Thomas D. Barra\u00a0(Republican\/Conservative).<\/p>\n
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A sample ballot for the 2025 election. Image courtesy of the NYC Board of Elections<\/p>\n
New York City Council<\/p>\n
19th District:\u00a0Benjamin Chou\u00a0(Democrat) and\u00a0Vickie Paladino\u00a0(Republican\/Conservative).<\/p>\n
20th District:\u00a0Sandra Ung\u00a0(Democrat),\u00a0Allen Haolun Wang\u00a0(Conservative),\u00a0Joseph J. Chou\u00a0(Asians United\/F.A.F.O.) and\u00a0Steven Wang\u00a0(Patriot Party).<\/p>\n
21st District:\u00a0Shanel Thomas-Henry\u00a0(Democrat\/Working Families) and\u00a0Giovanni Enrique-Franco\u00a0(Republican\/United Alliance).\n<\/p>\n
22nd District:\u00a0Tiffany L. Caban\u00a0(Democrat\/Working Families).\n<\/p>\n
23rd District:\u00a0Linda Lee\u00a0(Democrat) and\u00a0Bernard Chow\u00a0(Conservative).\n<\/p>\n
24th District:\u00a0James F. Gennaro\u00a0(Democrat).\n<\/p>\n
25th District:\u00a0Shekar Krishnan\u00a0(Democrat\/Working Families),\u00a0Ramses S. Frias\u00a0(Republican\/Conservative),\u00a0Ricardo Pacheco\u00a0(Safe and Affordable\/Stop the Casino) and\u00a0Shah S. Haque\u00a0(Asians United).<\/p>\n
26th District:\u00a0Julie Won\u00a0(Democrat) and\u00a0John Patrick Healy\u00a0(Republican\/Conservative).\n<\/p>\n
27th District:\u00a0Nantasha M. Williams\u00a0(Democrat).\n<\/p>\n
28th District:\u00a0Ty Hankerson\u00a0(Democrat\/Working Families).\n<\/p>\n
29th District:\u00a0Lynn Schulman\u00a0(Democrat) and\u00a0Jonathan Rinaldi\u00a0(Republican).\n<\/p>\n
30th District:\u00a0Phil Wong\u00a0(Democrat) and\u00a0Alicia B. Vaichunas\u00a0(Republican\/Conservative).\n<\/p>\n
31st District:\u00a0Selvena N. Brooks-Powers\u00a0(Democrat).\n<\/p>\n
32nd District:\u00a0Joann Ariola\u00a0(Republican\/Conservative).\n<\/p>\n
34th District:\u00a0Jennifer Gutierrez\u00a0(Democrat\/Working Families).<\/p>\n
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A sample ballot of the voting for judges. Image courtesy of the NYC Board of Elections<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Judge of the Civil Court<\/p>\n
First Municipal Court District: Juliette-Noor Haji (Democrat).<\/p>\n
Second Municipal Court District\u00a0(Vote for any two):\u00a0Thomas G. Wright-Fernandez\u00a0(Democrat),\u00a0Stephen C. Dachtera\u00a0(Republican\/Conservative) and\u00a0Eve Cho Guillergan\u00a0(Democrat).<\/p>\n
Fourth Municipal Court District\u00a0(Vote for any two):\u00a0Gail A. Adams\u00a0(Democrat),\u00a0Mary-Ann E. Maloney\u00a0(Republican\/Conservative) and\u00a0Fania Jean\u00a0(Democrat).<\/p>\n
Fifth Municipal Court District:\u00a0Jennifer A. Tubridy\u00a0(Democrat\/Republican)\n<\/p>\n
In addition to voting for the candidates, Queens residents will be asked to vote on whether or not to approve six different proposals.<\/p>\n
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A sample ballot of the first three proposals. Image courtesy of the NYC Board of Elections<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The first proposal is for an amendment that would allow for skiing and related trail facilities to be made on state forest preserve land. Under this amendment, the 1,039-acre site in Adirondack Park would add 2,500 acres of ski trails and related facilities.<\/p>\n
The second proposal asks for the approval of the fast-tracking of publicly financed affordable housing in New York City. While still subject to community board review, this would significantly reduce the review time.<\/p>\n
The third proposal calls for a simplified review when it comes to limited land-use changes, like modest amounts of additional housing and minor infrastructure projects, in an effort to further reduce the time it takes for community boards to review these plans. The final decision on whether or not to approve these projects would fall on the City Planning Commission.<\/p>\n
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A sample ballot of the last three proposals. Image courtesy of the NYC Board of Elections<\/p>\n
The fourth proposal is for the creation of an Affordable Housing Appeals Board, consisting of the Council Speaker, the local Borough President and the Mayor. This board would review actions taken by local community councils in rejecting or changing applications for the creation of affordable housing.<\/p>\n
The fifth proposal asks for the creation of a digital city map at the Department of City Planning in an effort to modernize operations. The current city map is paper and spans across five offices.\n<\/p>\n
The sixth and last proposal calls for New York City\u2019s primary and general election dates to be moved so that they occur in the same years as presidential elections. The purpose of this proposal is to try and increase voter participation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polls opened at 6 a.m. at voting locations in Queens and across New York City for the 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[7496,17353,9,24,63,7782,17574,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-28050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-election-day","tag-election-day-2025","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-polls","tag-polls-open","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28050","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=28050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}