NY Assembly · Assembly District 37

Uncontested

Samantha Kattan is the only candidate on the ballot for this seat. You can also write in a candidate whose name isn't printed on the ballot.

Samantha Kattan runs unopposed for western Queens' open Assembly seat

Claire Valdez has held the seat since 2025, and Samantha Kattan is running to replace her. Kattan won the June 23 Democratic primary with about two-thirds of the vote and is the only candidate on the Nov. 3 ballot, on the Democratic and Working Families lines.

Overview Issues Money

Candidate

Samantha Kattan

Director of contracts at the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, a nonprofit that helps tenants create housing co-ops; previously directed organizing there

Housing — Wants to defend and expand rent stabilization and Good Cause Eviction protections, give tenants the first chance to buy their building when a landlord sells, and create a state Social Housing Development Authority to build permanently affordable homes. Backs a rent freeze for stabilized units and rent stabilization for small businesses.

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Issues

Rents, tenant protections and social housing

How the state regulates rents and evictions, and how it pays for new permanently affordable homes.

Wants to defend and expand rent stabilization and Good Cause Eviction protections, give tenants the first chance to buy their building when a landlord sells, and create a state Social Housing Development Authority to build permanently affordable homes. Backs a rent freeze for stabilized units and rent stabilization for small businesses.

Samantha for Queens campaign site — housing platform

Child care, public schools and CUNY

Whether the state guarantees child care for every family, how it funds public schools and charter schools, and what CUNY students pay.

Supports a universal child care law and restoring free tuition at CUNY. Backs more transparency and accountability for charter schools, and ending the requirement that school districts offer charter schools space in public school buildings.

Samantha for Queens campaign site — child care and education platform

Taxes on high earners and corporations

How the state and city tax top earners and corporations, and what that money pays for.

Supports a more progressive state income tax that raises taxes on the highest earners, a higher state corporate tax rate, and letting New York City levy an additional 2 percent tax on individuals earning $1 million or more.

Samantha for Queens campaign site — tax platform

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The money

Cycle-to-date · NYS Board of Elections — figures change as new reports are filed.

SKKattan

$97K

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Researched & verified Oct 1, 2026. Compiled from verified public sources; claims that failed verification are excluded.

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Sources (14)

vote.nyc samanthaforqueens.com data.ny.gov data.ny.gov pcfb.ny.gov socialists.nyc vote.nyc elections.ny.gov cityandstateny.com queensledger.com queenseagle.com politicsny.com ballotpedia.org en.wikipedia.org