In a largely Democratic district, Democratic attorney Landon Dais successfully defeated Republican opponent and chairman of the Highbridge Houses tenant organization in the NYCHA in a special election for a state Assembly seat in the Bronx.
There was a notably low voter participation in the Assembly race. The New York City Board of Elections reports that as of 6 p.m., just 1,072 of the district’s approximately 69,000 registered voters had cast a ballot. The poll closed at 9 PM calling an end to the district’s election.
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Dais, a political consultant who previously ran for office in Harlem, received 74 percent of the vote with 90% of scanners reporting. This was a low-key election in a district that includes portions of the Highbridge, Morris Heights, and Claremont neighborhoods, with few voters turning out to cast their ballots.
After winning, Dais was granted the authority to continue serving until the end of the year, which allowed him to finish the term of former Assemblymember Latoya Joyner, who had unexpectedly quit in January. In November, he will need to run and win once more to complete his two-year tenure.
The battle for the congressional seat vacated by George Santos, who was expelled from the chamber, was going on at the same time as the Assembly election between Republican candidate Mazzi Pilip and Democrat Tom Suozzi. However, there is no overlap between the two districts; the congressional seat is in eastern Queens and Nassau County.
