Gatemouth did an excellent job analyzing and commenting on the Primary election results. However, he was limited by having only Assembly District returns. I have now obtained the results by E.D. so can try to look a little more deeply into some of the results.
10th CD & 11th CD
In the 10th CD, Congressman Ed Towns won a narrower than expected victory. Towns received 19,469 votes (47%) to Councilman Charles Barron’s 15,345 (37%) and Assemblyman Roger Green’s 6,237 (16%).
The race to replace Congressman Major Owens in the 11th was won by Councilwoman Yvette Clarke – 15,711 votes 31% to Councilman David Yassky’s 13,928 (27%) – State Senator Carl Andrews – 11,685 (23%) and Chris Owens – 9,971 (19%).
While both districts have Black majorities (I’m not breaking any news here) both have potential significant numbers of White voters.
Based on past campaigns, Prime New York has designated EDs in Brooklyn as “Brownstone” (where a large number of liberal Whites live) and “Orthodox” (where most voters are Orthodox or Hasidic Jews).
Here are the Primary results from those EDs for the 2 races:
Brownstone
Barron 1,970
Towns 1,707
Green 1,138
Yassky 8,043
Owens 4,885
Clarke 2.201
Andrews 1,764
It appears that the issue surrounding Ratner do help Barron & Owens in these EDs (which are not exclusively White). Both Green & Andrews have a number of these EDs in their Senate & Assembly Districts.
Orthodox
Towns 3,547
Green 327
Barron 250
Yassky 1,043
Andrews 625
Clarke 431
Owens 241
Another interesting way to look at these races is to see how the candidates did in their own Senate, Assembly & Council Districts. Here they are:
Barron Council District
Barron 5,135
Towns 3,774
Green 799
Green Assembly District
Barron 2,007
Towns 1,671
Green 1,344
Andrews Senate District
Andrews 6,981
Clarke 6,856
Yassky 5,636
Owens 4,447
Yassky Council District
Yassky 2,692
Owens 1,630
Clarke 614
Andrews 481
Clarke Council District
Clarke 4,448
Andrews 2,834
Yassky 1,522
Owens 1,363
Note that there is some overlap here as voters can be in both Andrews SD & Clarke’s CCD, for example.
13th SD
State Senator John Sabini won a close race against Councilman Hiram Monserrate 6,336 (51%) to 6,094 (49%).
Here I think the interesting way to look at this is to see how Monserrate did in his Council District (the 21st) and Sabini, and ex-Councilman did in his (25th)
Monserrate Council District
Monserrate 3,545
Sabini 1,947
Sabini Council District
Sabini 4,241
Monserrate 2,471
25th SD
State Senator Martin Connor with 11,459 votes (55%) defeated Ken Diamondstone’s 9,238 (45%).
As Gatemouth has pointed out, Connor barely carried the Brooklyn portion of the district 3,864-3806.
The 2 areas where Connor did the best were the 2 different parts of the district that are dominated by Orthodox Jews. In the area of the Lower East Side known as Grand Street, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s base, Connor won 1,363 to 522. In the Williamsburgh portion of Brooklyn, home to the Satmar community, Connor won by an eye-popping 1,612 to 153.
2nd Civil Court (Manhattan)
The narrow victory of Margaret Chan resulted in numerous comments, charges and counter-charges of the blogs. I’m not going to get into any of that.
Chan won by 145 votes, receiving 5,278 votes (41.4%) to David Cohen’s 5,133 (40.2%) and Andrea Masley’s 2,352 (18.4%).
Chan’s base obviously was the Asian vote. To try to see how they actually voted, I selected every ED where Asian surnamed voters were over 20% of the total registered voters. In these EDs, the results were Chan 1,036 – Cohen 352 – Masley 222.
Cohen’s base was the same as Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s, Grand Street. In those EDs, the results were Cohen 1,323 – Chan 392 – Masley 148.
So, if only the 2 bases voted, Cohen would have won. However they are not the only parts of the polyglot district. Chan won because she beat Cohen among the large Hispanic Housing Authority projects and the parts of the district in the East & Central Village. She did not win solely because of the Asian vote.
24th SD Republican Primary
Councilman Andrew Lanza defeated former County Leader Robert Helbock with 53% of the vote – 3,825 to 3,329. In Lanza’s own Council District, his margin was much bigger as he received 66% of the vote – 2,220 to 1,165
Next time, I’ll look at some of the Statewide Primary contests.