Upper East Side Election Results: Nadler, Bores, Krueger Win

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The Upper East Side will have new representation in Congress and the State Assembly come January, as Democrats Jerry Nadler and Alex Bores won their respective general election contests Tuesday night, according to projections.

Incumbent State Sen. Liz Krueger and Assembly Member Eddie Gibbs also both appeared set to easily fend off their Republican challengers, while two more incumbents were re-elected unopposed — amounting to a clean sweep for Democrats on the Upper East Side.

Those races were on the neighborhood's ballot alongside big statewide races for governor, attorney general and U.S. Senate (find those results here).

Nadler's victory was the first major result of the night, with the AP projecting his win over Republican and independent challengers shortly after polls closed. He will represent a newly-redrawn congressional district spanning Manhattan's East and West sides.

State Sen. Liz Krueger and Alex Bores were projected winners hours later, according to NY1, making Bores the Assembly member-elect in a rare open seat in the neighborhood. (He will succeed retiring member Dan Quart.)

Here are the preliminary vote totals for each major Upper East Side race as of Tuesday night, based on Board of Elections Data, with more background on each race below:

12th Congressional District results

• Jerrold Nadler (D): 81.55% (185,084 votes)
• Michael Zumbluskas (R): 18.03% (40,920 votes)
• Mikhail Itkis (Itkis Campaign): 0.25% (578 votes)

(97% of scanners reported, as of 11:30 p.m.)

State Senate District 28 results

• Liz Krueger (D): 77.57% (71,029 votes)
• Dr. Awadhesh Kumar Gupta (R): 22.37% (20,487 votes)

(96% of scanners reported, as of 11:30 p.m.)

State Assembly District 73 results

• Alex Bores (D): 73.88% (30,535 votes)
• David Casavis (R): 26.08% (10,781 votes)

(96% of scanners reported, as of 11:30 p.m.)

State Assembly District 68 results

• Edward Gibbs (D): 86.42% (17,434 votes)
• Daby Benjamine Carreras (R): 13.31% (2,686 votes)

(90% of scanners reported, as of 11:30 p.m.)

Uncontested races

Rebecca Seawright will be re-elected to a fifth term in the State Assembly. The Democrat faced no general election challengers in the 76th District, which covers Yorkville and Roosevelt Island.

Seawright had easily beaten Patrick Bobilin in the June Democratic primary, and survived a fraught re-election bid in 2020 in which she was forced to run on an independent line after being kicked off the Democratic ballot due to a filing error.

Also unopposed was State Sen. Jose M. Serrano, whose East Harlem-based 29th District includes a few Yorkville blocks north of 87th Street.

Despite surprisingly competitive races at the statewide level, Democratic candidates have been heavily favored for all the elections on the Upper East Side, given the area's liberal leanings.

That included Jerry Nadler, a 30-year incumbent but newcomer to the Upper East Side. In August, Nadler notably defeated East Side Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney in the Democratic primary, after a chaotic redistricting process placed the two Manhattan veterans in the same new district.

Michael Zumbluskas, Nadler's Republican opponent in the general, is a staffer at the city Department of Transportation. He previously run for State Senate and Assembly on the Upper East Side, and said his top issues included crime, homelessness and inflation.

Third-party candidate Mikhail Itkis, an IT project manager, made news last month when he promoted his "sex positive" campaign platform by releasing a porn video in which he had a featured role.

Another notable general election contest was for the 73rd State Assembly District: a rare open seat following the retirement of Dan Quart. Alex Bores, an engineer, won the hard-fought June Democratic primary, making him the heavy favorite to be elected. (The seat was held by a Republican as recently as 2002, however.

Bores previously told Patch that his top concerns include public safety, quality of life, the environment and public schools.

David Casavis, the Republican candidate, is a local political operative and adjunct professor at CUNY and SUNY.

Also in the Assembly, Democrat Eddie Gibbs was running for his first full term representing the 68th District, which centers on East Harlem but includes more than a dozen blocks in Yorkville and Carnegie Hill.

Gibbs won a special election last year to succeed Robert Rodriguez. He said his top priorities included reducing gun violence, expanding social services and increasing affordable housing options.

Daby Carreras, Gibbs's Republican challenger, is an investment banker. He was previously the Republican nominee for city comptroller in 2021, and challenged Rodriguez for the same Assembly seat in 2018 and 2020.

In the State Senate, longtime incumbent Liz Krueger sought an 11th term representing a district that covers nearly all of the Upper East Side, and much of Midtown. Little information was available about her challenger, Awadhesh Kumar Gupta.