2025 The 2025 New York City Council elections will be held on November 4, 2025, with primary elections occurring on June 24, 2025.
2023 (redistricting) Due to redistricting and the 2020 changes to the
New York City Charter, councilmembers elected during the
2021 and 2023 City Council elections will serve two-year terms, with full four-year terms resuming after the 2025 New York City Council elections.
2021 In 2019, voters in New York City approved Ballot Question 1, which implemented
ranked-choice voting in all local elections. Under the new system, voters have the option to rank up to five candidates for every local office. Voters whose first-choice candidates fare poorly will have their votes redistributed to other candidates in their ranking until one candidate surpasses the 50 percent threshold. If one candidate surpasses 50 percent in first-choice votes, then ranked-choice tabulations will not occur.
2017 2016 specials In late 2015, Councilwoman
Maria del Carmen Arroyo announced she would resign, triggering an election for her seat. Two special elections were scheduled to fill her seat: one nonpartisan election in February to serve the remainder of the calendar year, followed by a standard partisan primary and general election that September and November to complete the remainder of her term. Both were won by
Rafael Salamanca. Like all municipal special elections in New York City, the race is officially nonpartisan, with all candidates running on ballot lines of their own creation. The November special election also coincided with federal elections in 2016, including the
presidential election,
Senate election and other statewide races.
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