General Election
Christian Celeste Tate 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.
Christian Celeste Tate runs unopposed after defeating Assembly Member Erik Dilan
Erik Dilan has held the seat since 2015. Christian Celeste Tate defeated him in the June 23 Democratic primary with about 62 percent of the vote and is the only candidate on the Nov. 3 ballot, on the Democratic and Working Families lines.
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Rents, displacement and social housing
How the state protects tenants and homeowners from displacement, regulates rents and evictions, and pays for new permanently affordable homes.
Wants to create a state Social Housing Development Authority to build permanently affordable homes statewide, expand Good Cause eviction protections, defend rent stabilization and pass the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act. Backs a tax on speculative home flipping, and says fighting displacement means standing up to the real estate lobby.
Christian Celeste Tate campaign site — platformImmigration enforcement in New York
How far state and local agencies in New York cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, and what legal help people facing deportation get.
Wants to pass the New York for All Act to bar state agencies from collaborating with ICE, adopt Access to Representation legislation guaranteeing every New Yorker an immigration lawyer in deportation cases, and pass the MELT Act to bar law enforcement officers from concealing their identities while on duty.
Christian Celeste Tate campaign site — platformPublic safety, policing and prisons
How the state balances crime response with prevention programs, and how it runs its prisons, including solitary confinement and prison labor.
Wants to improve public safety through community investment and prevention, addressing generational cycles of poverty and inequality: funding violence interruption programs and expanding access to mental health care and substance abuse counseling. Supports abolishing forced labor in New York prisons and enforcing the HALT Act's limits on solitary confinement.
Christian Celeste Tate campaign site — platformCycle-to-date · NYS Board of Elections — figures change as new reports are filed.
Researched & verified Oct 1, 2026. Compiled from verified public sources; claims that failed verification are excluded.
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