Overview
- Unofficial NYC Board of Elections returns show Moreno at about 74% as the Associated Press called the race shortly after polls closed.
- The community organizer and former NYC-DSA Queens co-chair ran on Democratic and Working Families lines with backing from Mayor Zohran Mamdani, DSA and the Queens Democratic Party.
- Challengers Rana Abdelhamid and Mary Jobaida trailed at roughly 17% and 8% in a low-turnout contest that also featured competing progressive endorsements, including Rep. Nydia Velázquez for Abdelhamid.
- Mamdani fundraised for Moreno and appeared in a campaign ad, reflecting the mayor’s early push to elect ideological allies.
- In other New York City specials, Erik Bottcher won the Manhattan Senate District 47 seat and Keith Powers captured Manhattan’s Assembly District 74.