Queens Special Election: Democrat Wins State Assembly Race by 468 Votes

“Democrat Sam Berger defeated Republican candidate David Hirsch in Tuesday, September 12th’s special election to fill former Assemblyman Daniel Rosenthal’s seat (D), doing so by 10.6 percentage points with 99 percent of the vote in, unofficial election night results show,” Queens Chronicle reported. Including Whitestone, College Point, and Kew Gardens Hills, President Joe Biden (D) won this district by 13 points in 2020, but in 2022 gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin (R) won the district by the same margin. As a result, this race had very symbolic power to Democrats and Republicans - both spent significant resources here for a race that otherwise will not affect the Democratic supermajority in the State Assembly. Learn more.