{"id":29128,"date":"2025-11-05T03:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/29128\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T03:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:54:12","slug":"election-2025-kamillah-hanks-re-elected-to-nyc-council-after-emotional-campaign-marked-by-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/29128\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2025: Kamillah Hanks re-elected to NYC Council after emotional campaign marked by loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/politics\/\" title=\"Navigate to Politics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politics<\/a>Updated: Nov. 04, 2025, 10:41 p.m.|Published: Nov. 04, 2025, 10:24 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Kamillah Hanks\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BOQ2RSPAVVHARJLHOZ7WNA7BEQ.png\"\/>Kamillah Hanks learns of her re-election at her campaign headquarters.Jan Somma-Hammel | Advance\/SILive.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CCHOB6GJX5FQTKEZX7W52D77ZU\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. &#8212; Loss of her biggest cheerleader and one of her closest confidants didn\u2019t stop Kamillah Hanks in her re-election bid for the North Shore Council seat representing the 49th Council District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"J2WOCYXNJFAIRFXTUOSIISPX74\">After a very emotional campaign cycle for Hanks, she was reelected by besting two challengers, Republican John Shea, and Independent candidate Sarah Blas. As of 10:15 p.m. on Tuesday night, Hanks has accumulated 54.8% of the vote, compared to 34.7% for Shea and 10.3% for Blas, according to the NYCBOE.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/politics\/elections-chat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762314852_228_FHU2TVAKB5CKZD4TSAKGPFGXCY.jpg\" alt=\"NYC Mayor's Race\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After 25+ years as a reporter, Tracey Porpora is The Advance\/SILive\u2019s News Manager\/Editor of the Public Interest &amp; Advocacy team. She leads a team of political and investigative reporters who write about and&#8230; more<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PoliticsUpdated: Nov. 04, 2025, 10:41 p.m.|Published: Nov. 04, 2025, 10:24 p.m.Kamillah Hanks learns of her re-election at her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-29128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29128","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=29128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}