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The Most Interesting ED in NYC

The ballot plot twist. One outline. Two landslides. Opposite parties.

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Data as of Nov 4, 2026, 12:41:53 AM EST

In Queens Assembly District 23, Election District 29, the governor line on the unofficial board reads 769 for Republican Bruce Blakeman and 24 for Democrat Kathy Hochul. Keep the same district outline and read the Assembly line: Democrat Pesach Osina 758, Republican Thomas P. Sullivan 34.

That is the whole story this page is willing to tell. Two contests. One boundary. A 92.68-point difference in the Democratic nominee’s share of the two-nominee vote. It is a choice of what to show a reader, not a trophy for the objectively most interesting place in the city.

Checked again November 8, 2026, at 6:14 p.m. EST, against the Board of Elections tables linked below. Those tables still say the information is as of November 4, 2026, 12:41:53 AM EST. The governor page retrieved at 6:14 p.m. was the same file as the earlier November 8 retrieval: 41,291 bytes, SHA-256 2313e33de3f8411379b294539302c6b08fbe48a27c9b0eb4561ddc472785bdaf. A later check is not a newer canvass. Election District 29 shows 99.00% of scanners reported. That is not 99% of eligible votes, and it is not a final count. The citywide comparison uses the five-borough snapshot of that same canvass. It is not a fresh download of all 4,285 election districts on November 8.

The district, with its neighbors

The shapes are official NYC Election Districts polygons from the downloaded extract, election districts 23020 through 23036, retrieved November 8, 2026. That extract is not every district in Assembly District 23. Election District 29 is the purple one. Hover, tap, or tab through a shape. The row in the table is the same district. The link works with scripts turned off. Each name is drawn at a point inside its own polygon.

On a small screen, swipe the map sideways. The district names stay at reading size, and the table lists the same districts. This frame is the Rockaway peninsula cluster. The inset is the same downloaded extract, election districts 23020 through 23036, not a complete map of Assembly District 23. North is up. The bar is 0.5 kilometers.

Election districts in the frame. Governor and Assembly totals pool every ballot line for that nominee. Write-ins stay separate.
District	Scanners	Hochul	Blakeman	Gov write-in	Osina	Sullivan	Asm write-in
ED 21	85.71%	255	140	0	345	33	0
ED 23	99.00%	173	155	0	179	145	0
ED 24	99.00%	267	26	0	257	26	0
ED 25	99.00%	346	303	0	564	66	0
ED 26	99.00%	187	122	2	250	56	2
ED 27	99.00%	123	602	1	661	55	2
ED 28	83.33%	225	217	0	383	44	1
ED 29	99.00%	24	769	1	758	34	1
ED 30	83.33%	144	458	0	561	41	0

ED 28 and ED 30 are at 83.33% of scanners, so their totals are a thinner report than ED 29. The join key for the purple district is 23029, and only together with Queens. A key that starts with 23 is an Assembly-district number plus an election-district number, not a free-floating ID.

Where it sits: Election District 29 is the purple polygon in the southeastern part of this extract, on the Rockaway peninsula in Queens. This page does not name a street for the district. A rounded coordinate is not a location inside the polygon, and a reverse-geocode is not used as one. The Board’s 2026 map of this Assembly district is AD_2024_23.pdf. This page does not retype street labels off that sheet. The background of the map is paper, not a water layer.

First scoreboard: governor

The governor vote is a joint ticket. Hochul’s running mate on the ballot is Adrienne E. Adams. Blakeman’s is Todd Hood. The counts below are the ticket counts.

Governor and lieutenant governor · ED 29 · 99.00% of scanners

769 Blakeman to 24 Hochul

Blakeman 96.97%Hochul 3.03%

Blakeman and Hood: Republican 740, Conservative 21, Vote Affordable 8. Sum 769.
Hochul and Adams: Democratic 22, Working Families 2. Sum 24.
Write-in: 1. Reported candidate votes: 794. The percentages use 769 and 24 only, the 793 two-nominee votes.

Same outline. Assembly next.

Nothing about the boundary changed between these two lines. The scoreboard did.

Member of Assembly, 23rd District · ED 29 · 99.00% of scanners

758 Osina to 34 Sullivan

Osina 95.71%Sullivan 4.29%

Pesach Osina: Democratic 722, Community First 36. Sum 758.
Thomas P. Sullivan: Republican 34, Conservative 0, We The People 0. Sum 34.
Write-in: 1. Reported candidate votes: 793. The percentages use 758 and 34 only, the 792 two-nominee votes.

Why this district, under one explicit rule

92.68

points between the two Democratic shares

Osina’s 758 of 792 is 95.71%. Hochul’s 24 of 793 is 3.03%. The difference is 92.68 percentage points. Among 3,308 New York City election districts with at least 300 votes for the two major nominees in the governor contest and in a comparison contest, that is the largest gap in the November 4 snapshot. It stays the largest at minimums of 200, 300, 400, and 500 votes. The pools at those cutoffs are 3,743, 3,308, 2,632, and 1,845 districts.

What the rule counted

For each election district, compare the Democratic nominee’s share of the two-nominee governor vote with that nominee’s share in another contested, single-seat race on the same ballot: state comptroller, attorney general, U.S. House, State Senate, or Assembly, when both a Democratic and a Republican nominee are on that contest. Keep the comparison with the largest absolute gap. Ignore unopposed races, multi-seat races, and propositions. A nominee’s party is the major-party nomination, so Osina’s Community First votes count for Osina, and Blakeman’s Conservative and Vote Affordable votes count for Blakeman. Write-ins are not in the share.

The five borough files in that snapshot hold 4,285 Assembly-district and election-district keys. 4,004 have a nonzero governor tally. A zero is not proof that nobody voted. 3,327 meet the 300-vote governor bar alone. The pair count is 3,308 because the comparison contest has to clear 300 as well.

The rest of this ballot is a third pattern

If ED 29 were simply “a Republican district” or “a Democratic district,” the other contests would line up. They do not. These are the same unofficial ED 29 rows, read November 8 from the Board’s AD 23 pages.

U.S. House, 5th District

456 Meeks to 298 Marsh

Meeks 60.48%Marsh 39.52%

Gregory W. Meeks, Democratic 456. George Marsh, Republican 295 plus Queens United 3, sum 298. Write-in 2. Two-nominee votes 754.

State comptroller

600 Hernandez to 161 DiNapoli

Hernandez 78.84%DiNapoli 21.16%

Joseph Hernandez: Republican 583, Conservative 17, sum 600. Thomas P. DiNapoli: Democratic 152, Working Families 9, sum 161. Write-in 1. Two-nominee votes 761.

Attorney general

714 Komatireddy to 45 James

Komatireddy 94.07%James 5.93%

Saritha Komatireddy: Republican 695, Conservative 19, sum 714. Letitia A. James: Democratic 42, Working Families 3, sum 45. Write-in 2. Two-nominee votes 759.

State Senate, 10th District · not a two-party contest

281 Sanders and 24 write-ins

James Sanders Jr. is the only nominee on this line: Democratic 251, Working Families 30, sum 281. Write-in 24. There is no Republican nominee, so this contest is outside the 92.68-point comparison. Twenty-four write-ins is a count. It is not an explanation.

The Assembly district around it is close

ED 29 is not a miniature of Assembly District 23. The Total row on the same unofficial AD 23 pages, still as of 12:41:53 AM EST:

Assembly District 23 portion of each contest. The Assembly total is the whole Assembly race. The others are only the AD 23 rows, not the city or the full House district.
Contest on the AD 23 pages	Democratic nominee	Republican nominee	Write-in	Republican share of the two
Governor, AD 23 rows	Hochul 15,708	Blakeman 19,085	48	54.85%
Assembly 23, whole contest	Osina 17,863	Sullivan 16,492	49	48.00%
House 5, AD 23 rows only	Meeks 15,910	Marsh 16,403	99	50.76%
State comptroller, AD 23 rows	DiNapoli 16,958	Hernandez 17,120	27	50.24%
Attorney general, AD 23 rows	James 15,536	Komatireddy 18,684	28	54.60%

Those AD 23 nominee totals pool the same way as the election district: Hochul 14,571 Democratic plus 1,137 Working Families; Blakeman 17,625 Republican plus 1,197 Conservative plus 263 Vote Affordable. Osina 17,312 Democratic plus 551 Community First; Sullivan 15,067 Republican plus 1,138 Conservative plus 287 We The People. Marsh’s AD 23 total adds 254 Queens United votes to 16,149 Republican votes. DiNapoli 15,489 plus 1,469; Hernandez 15,926 plus 1,194. James 14,311 plus 1,225; Komatireddy 17,367 plus 1,317.

Read that against ED 29 and the plot twist gets sharper. Across the Assembly district, Blakeman leads the governor tally by 3,377 votes, 54.85% of the two-nominee vote. In this one election district he has 769 of 793. Across the Assembly district, Osina leads by 1,371 votes, 52.00% of the two-nominee vote. In this election district he has 758 of 792. The House slice of AD 23 leans a half point toward Marsh. Inside ED 29, Meeks leads.

What this page cannot conclude

It cannot say that the same people voted for Blakeman and for Osina. Different contests have different totals. A 769 and a 758 are not a list of ticket-splitters. They are not evidence that the same people split a ballot.
It cannot say why. There is no voter file, no interview, and no demographic breakdown on this page. Neighborhood character is not an explanation this count can carry.
It cannot report a turnout rate. Registration for this election district is not in the matched file. “Votes” here means reported candidate votes, not ballots cast and not eligible voters.
It cannot say the district flipped, swung, or matched an older election. The boundary vintage and the 2026 snapshot are not a pair of comparable maps. The number 29 in another year is not this polygon.
It cannot call a race, and it cannot treat 99% of scanners as 99% of the vote. Absentee, affidavit, and the unscanned remainder are still outside this table. The Board marks the pages unofficial.

Three runners-up, plus one different kind of interesting

These are the next election districts on the same rule, after ED 29, in the November 4 snapshot. Each row below was read again on November 8 from the live Board table. Brooklyn’s pages are stamped as of 12:41:36 AM EST. The Queens pages are stamped 12:41:53 AM EST.

2. Brooklyn AD 45, ED 26

79.64 points, the next gap in which both nominees received votes. Governor: Hochul 27 (Democratic 24, Working Families 3), Blakeman 348 (Republican 325, Conservative 14, Vote Affordable 9), write-in 1. State Senate 22: Sam Sutton 330 on the Democratic line, Nachman Carl Caller 50 (Republican 48, Conservative 2), write-in 2. Assembly 45, a third scoreboard on the same outline: Joey Cohen-Saban 333 (Democratic 323 plus 10 on the line the Board prints as “Fgt Antisemitism”), Michael Novakhov 52 (Republican 51, Conservative 1), write-in 0. Scanners reported: 99.00%.

3. Brooklyn AD 45, ED 11

78.13 points, Assembly against governor. Governor: Hochul 79 (Democratic 77, Working Families 2), Blakeman 499 (Republican 470, Conservative 24, Vote Affordable 5), write-in 1. Assembly: Cohen-Saban 537 (Democratic 519 plus 18 on that same additional line), Novakhov 48 (Republican 46, Conservative 2), write-in 1. Senate 22 on this ED is also a wide Sutton lead, 536 to Caller’s 50, with 2 write-ins. The ranking uses the Assembly gap because it is the larger one. Scanners reported: 99.00%.

4. Next door: Queens AD 23, ED 27

75.35 points, and visible on the map above. Governor: Hochul 123 (Democratic 119, Working Families 4), Blakeman 602 (Republican 578, Conservative 22, Vote Affordable 2), write-in 1. Assembly: Osina 661 (Democratic 622, Community First 39), Sullivan 55 (Republican 52, Conservative 3, We The People 0), write-in 2. Scanners reported: 99.00%. ED 29 is not a one-block fluke. It is the sharpest case in a neighborhood that already votes very differently for governor and for Assembly.

A different metric: Queens AD 28, ED 43

An even governor scoreboard, not a place on the contrast list. Hochul 310 (Democratic 286, Working Families 24), Blakeman 310 (Republican 300, Conservative 10, Vote Affordable 0), write-in 0. Scanners reported: 99.00%. Six hundred twenty two-nominee votes, split evenly. That is an election-district tie. It is not a tied citywide or statewide race, and it is not third on the 92.68-point ranking.

Method, sources, and the clock

“Most interesting” on this page means one reproducible editorial rule: the largest absolute gap, inside one election district, between the Democratic nominee’s share of the two-nominee governor vote and that share in another qualifying contest. It is not a survey of every way a district can be interesting. A perfect tie is interesting and is shown separately. A district where one nominee’s tally is zero can produce a large share gap of a duller kind. The pool used here is a different cut: an election district is in it only when the Democratic nominee and the Republican nominee together have at least 300 votes in each contest being compared. That is a combined total in each contest, not 300 votes for each nominee. ED 29 is in the pool with 24 and 769 for governor, 793 together, and 758 and 34 for Assembly, 792 together. In the November 4 snapshot, ED 29 still led.

The citywide order was computed from the five borough result files in this site, the unofficial snapshot whose pages were created around 12:43 AM EST on November 4. The districts named above were then read from the live Board tables on November 8. The numbers matched, and the tables’ own “information as of” line had not moved. If those tables change, this ranking has to be recomputed. An old first-place district does not stay first by inertia.

Sources

Governor, AD 23, including ED 29 and ED 27: enr.boenyc.gov/CD27432AD234.html. Information as of 2026-11-04 00:41:53 EST. Page created 11/4/2026 12:43:14 AM. SHA-256 of the file retrieved November 8: 2313e33de3f8411379b294539302c6b08fbe48a27c9b0eb4561ddc472785bdaf.
Assembly 23: CD27357AD234.html. Same as-of time. SHA-256 4baf93f0af2031716d70ccb1f5e389dfa8ed8d9bc28b51d51f90d7f1eb32e894.
State comptroller, AD 23: CD27433AD234.html. SHA-256 4e10661d64317bcded432a6f8bbc2959dbfd05ca5530f57064a3eb4b5f8d61c6.
Attorney general, AD 23: CD27434AD234.html. SHA-256 37993cae882cdf096bf6f08a7199ae7ce520724972b687a0a6b437e1a0270fae.
House 5, AD 23 rows: CD27317AD234.html. SHA-256 5aca53974e643ea0079945cb9b7875a8614aa783fb90d7d01242804d80f354bb.
Senate 10, AD 23: CD27330AD234.html.
Brooklyn AD 45 governor, Senate 22, and Assembly 45, for ED 26 and ED 11: CD27432AD453.html, CD27347AD453.html, CD27404AD453.html. Information as of 2026-11-04 00:41:36 EST.
Queens AD 28 governor, ED 43: CD27432AD284.html.
Polygons: NYC Election Districts feature layer, the downloaded extract ElectDist 23020 through 23036, retrieved November 8, 2026. That extract is not every election district in Assembly District 23. The map draws the cluster around ED 29, and the inset is the same extract. The geometry file is stored with this project as site/data/most-interesting-ed/nyc-ad23-eds.geojson.
Street plate, not traced here: vote.nyc Assembly District 23 map, 2026 directory.
See the district on the city results map: Queens election-district map. The companion story, a provisional Suffolk selection with Nassau still missing: The Most Interesting ED on Long Island.