General Election
ELECTION WAS NOV 3
NY Assembly · Assembly District 47
A longtime Assembly incumbent's record against a school-council leader's safety focus
Democrat William Colton has held the seat since 1997 and won in 2024 with 60.5% of the vote. Republican John J. Ricottone, a retired police officer and president of Community Education Council District 20, also runs on the Conservative and Stop Mamdani lines.
Raised & cash on hand
Cycle-to-date · NYS Board of Elections — figures change as new reports are filed.
Colton$17K
JRRicottone
$6K
Who's funding them
Largest contributors to each campaign, people and organizations alike, from NYS Board of Elections filings.
Colton1199 SEIU--NYS Political Action Fund$3KPaul Lipton$1KDavid Yeung$600Sidney Schatzman$450Thomas Petrizzo$300Wendy Levitt-Karlin$275Giacomo Spatola$250Larry He$250Susan Zhuang$250Hsiu Teng$250
JRRicottone
Stephen Stowe$260.25Carla Danielson$208.2Ruslan Mukhtarov$208.2Elizabeth Santo$179.1William Ricottone$156.15