Incumbent
Zellnor Y. Myrie
Chair of the New York State Senate Codes Committee
Focus: Public safety
New York Working Families Party
General Election
ELECTION WAS NOV 3
NY Senate · Senate District 20
Uncontested
Zellnor Y. Myrie 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.
A senator since 2019 is the only candidate on the ballot
Zellnor Y. Myrie, a Democrat, has held the seat since 2019 and won it in 2024 with 99.3% of the vote. The June 23, 2026 Democratic and Working Families primaries were canceled, and he is on both lines in November.
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Issues
Guns, crime and criminal justice
Under laws signed in 2024, payment card networks must use a specific sales category code for firearm dealers, and a mass shooting is defined, for emergency funding, as at least four people murdered with a firearm; a 2023 bill letting people ask a court to vacate convictions for conduct later decriminalized passed both houses and was vetoed. The Legislature decides how far to go on gun rules, criminal penalties and clearing past convictions.
In coverage
Sponsored laws requiring payment card networks to use merchant category codes for firearm and ammunition dealers, defining a mass shooting for emergency funding, expanding crime victims' access to compensation without a mandatory police report, and raising criminal fines on corporations. His Senate biography says he wrote the state's gun industry liability law in 2021.
NY Senate — About Senator Zellnor MyrieVoting rights and election rules
New York's own voting rights act, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York, has been in effect since July 1, 2023, and a 2024 law lets boards of elections set up absentee ballot drop-off locations; the Legislature decides whether to expand, keep or narrow these rules.
In coverage
Sponsored the 2023 law setting the effective date of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York and voted for a law letting boards of elections set up absentee ballot drop-off locations. His Senate biography says he authored that voting rights act and, in 2021, held voter-focused hearings across the state and issued a report with more than 50 recommendations to reform elections.
NY Senate — About Senator Zellnor MyrieHousing and rents
A law signed in October 2025 addresses landlords' use of algorithmic pricing to set residential rents; in question is how far the state should regulate how rents are set.
In coverage
Voted for a 2025 law on landlords' use of algorithmic pricing to set the rent charged to residential tenants.
NY Senate — S7882 (2025) bill pageThe money
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