Four South Asian Women Run For NYC Council

Seema

New York City is set for local elections in November 2021. But certain districts have special elections to the city council in the next weeks, as the seats fell vacant before the term ended. The first of these is District 24, which fell vacant because incumbent Rory Lancman left to join a position in the state government. There are eight candidates in the running, six of whom South Asian Americans, out of which four are women.

The District 24 special election will be a test run for ranked-choice voting in New York whereby people vote for up to five candidates, in order of preference. This system will be also be used for the party primaries in June. For the city council elections, candidates do not have party affiliations and are use their own slogans or tag lines.