Farah Louis Wins Final 2019 Bid For City Council Seat

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — For the third and final time this year, Brooklyn's District 45 residents elected Farah Louis to represent them in City Council.

Louis won her ultimate battle to represent Flatbush and Kensington on Election Day Tuesday when 11,965 voters chose the Brooklyn Democrat over Libertarian David Fite and Liberal Anthony Beckford, Board of Elections results show.

Louis had claimed more than 92 percent of the votes with more than 76 percent of the ballots counted, according to the unofficial results. Beckford had received 621 votes, or 4.81 percent, while Fite got 285, or 2.21 percent.

This is the third time this year Louis has run for the seat Public Advocate Jumaane Williams left vacant. He was also overwhelmingly re-elected Tuesday night.

Louis was first named acting City Council member in May when she won a special election against Williams' pick and former outreach director, Monique Chandler-Waterman.

The stand-in council member again won the Democratic primary against Chandler-Waterman in June.

Louis is the first woman to represent the 45th District and second Haitian-American to serve in the New York City Council, according to her official biography.