In accordance with the newest unofficial outcomes from the New York Metropolis Board of Elections (BOE), incumbents Antonio Reynoso and Vanessa Gibson dominated their re-election campaigns of their primaries for Brooklyn and Bronx Borough president (BP) Tuesday.
Brooklyn
PHOTO CREDIT: Marketing campaign picture
Reynoso, a Brooklyn native, is the son of Dominican immigrants. At his 2025 State of the Borough handle at Boys and Women Excessive College in Mattress-Stuy in April, he promised to put money into a Perinatal Psychological Well being (PMH) Superior Certificates Program for pregnant moms and birthing dad and mom experiencing psychological misery, advocate for extra inexpensive housing all through the borough, shield the final energetic port in Crimson Hook’s harbor and waterfront, and put money into the Interborough Categorical to raised join transit deserts in Brooklyn and Queens, amongst different points.
He’s additionally been decided to maneuver away from “fear-based politics” and the affect of President Donald Trump on how town is ruled.
Reynoso benefited naturally was the incumbent and was forward in fundraising for his re-election marketing campaign. After the polls closed on Tuesday, June 24, he ended the evening with 77.07% or 241,149 votes. As soon as it turned clear that Reynoso would sweep the primary spherical of rank selection voting, he merely tweeted, “Thanks Brooklyn.”
Reynoso was later noticed at mayoral candidate and Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani’s watch occasion, celebrating with Mamdani supporters as Mamdani received the Democratic major for mayor.
Reynoso’s opponent, Khari Edwards, a head of company and social duty at AYR Wellness Inc, a multi-state hashish dispensary firm, was the primary vice chairman of colour for exterior affairs at Brookdale Hospital in Brownsville. That is the second time he’s run towards Reynoso for BP and misplaced. Edwards had garnered 22.46% of the votes.
The Bronx
PHOTO CREDIT: NYC Council picture.
Gibson, after a prolonged profession in politics, turned the primary lady and Black individual to carry her place in 2020. Her important opponent was Metropolis Councilmember Rafael Salamanca, who ran briefly for Bronx BP in 2020 however ended up dropping out of the race to safe re-election to his Metropolis Council seat.
Gibson has been main the cost on Black maternal well being within the Bronx, a kindred spirit to BP Reynoso.
She garnered 68.47% of the votes, or 65,467 votes, on the shut of the polls. In a fast social media publish, she mentioned, “We did it Mother! Thanks, Bronx.”
