Former City Comptroller Brad Lander is the projected winner of the 10th Congressional District primary covering southern Manhattan and northern Brooklyn. He is poised to unseat the incumbent, Dan Goldman, in a heated contest largely over where the candidates stand on numerous progressive issues, as well as Israel in its ongoing war in Gaza.
Mamdani had supported Lander in the 10th District race, and the democratic socialist mayor also saw another one of his picks, Queens Assembly Member Claire Valdez, prevail in the primary for the 7th Congressional District seat held by the retiring Nydia Velázquez.
Despite being a freshman Assembly member, Valdez appears to have defeated two more experienced candidates in Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and Queens City Council Member Julie Won.
The mayor’s third Congressional candidate in the primary, meanwhile, pulled off possibly the biggest upset of the night.
New Yorkers cast their votes on Primary Election Day.Photo by Ethan Stark-Miller
Darializa Avila Chevalier has apparently defeated U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat with more than three-fourths of all scanners reported.
Chevalier, a community organizer who helped lead the 2024 pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University, has a roughly 2,200-vote edge on Espaillat, who conceded the race to her during a campaign speech Tuesday evening.
It was a stunning defeat for Espaillat, the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, who had held the seat since 2017 after becoming the first Dominican American member of the House.
Another big Congressional primary in Manhattan is the 12th District covering Manhattan and currently represented by the retiring U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler. Assembly Member Micah Lasher is the projected winner with 94% of all scanners reporting, securing roughly 4,000 votes more than his colleague in the state’s lower house, Alex Bores.
Despite the high stakes in the Democratic primaries, the turnout in this year’s contests is a far cry from that generated a year ago in the mayoral primary. Through 6 p.m. Tuesday night, the city’s Board of Elections reported 420,527 voter check-ins in the 2026 primaries, including the 172,743 voters who took part in the nine-day early voting period that concluded on June 21. That means a little less than 250,000 voters had cast ballots on Primary Day itself.
By contrast, more than 1 million votes were cast in the 2025 mayoral primary.
The one primary battle atop everyone’s ballots in New York City on Primary Day is the race for the Democratic nomination for state Comptroller. Incumbent Thomas DiNapoli is facing two challengers in Drew Warshaw and Raj Goyle.
Key NYC race results
Here are the unofficial results as reported by the NYC Board of Elections. Projected winners in each contest, as called by the Associated Press and/or New York Times, are denoted with a checkmark (√) next to their name.
House District 6 (Queens) – 95.07% scanners reporting
House District 7 (Brooklyn and Queens) – 97.3% reporting
House District 10 (Brooklyn and Manhattan) – 95.38% reporting
House District 11 (Brooklyn and Staten Island) – 98.43% reporting
House District 12 (Manhattan) – 94.21% reporting
House District 13 (Manhattan and Bronx) – 94.16% reporting
House District 14 (Bronx and Queens) – 93.79% reporting
House District 15 (Bronx) – 92.86% reporting
State Comptroller – 78.7% reporting
Manhattan state legislative races
Note: For results from local legislative races in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, visit our affiliates at bxtimes.com, brooklynpaper.com and QNS.com.
State Senate District 27 (95.6% reporting)
State Senate District 29 (93.09% reporting)
State Senate District 31 (94.08% reporting)
Assembly 65th District (95.29% reporting)
Assembly 66th District (95.45% reporting)
Assembly 68th District (89.53% reporting)
Assembly 69th District (96.74% reporting)
Assembly 70th District (89.47% reporting)
Assembly 71st District (91.67% reporting)
Assembly 72nd District (96.3% reporting)
Assembly 75th District (99% reporting)
Special City Council 3rd District race (ranked choice voting; 99% reporting)