Nearly 100 candidates have filed petitions for the 2026 primaries in Queens, triggering a wave of legal challenges to ballot eligibility across Assembly, State Senate, and Congressional races.
ALSO MENTIONED David Weprin, Incumbent Assemblymember; Jenifer Rajkumar, Incumbent Assemblymember; John Liu, Incumbent State Senator; Catalina Cruz, Incumbent Assemblymember; Toby Ann Stavisky, Incumbent State Senator; Zohran Mamdani, Mentioned as Mayor; Andrew Hevesi, Incumbent Assemblymember; Stacey Pheffer Amato, Retiring Assemblymember; Nily Rozic, Incumbent Assemblymember; Michael Gianaris, Retiring State Senator; Ed Braunstein, Incumbent Assemblymember
