The men hoping to win a comeback seat in the NYC Council
You know what they say – once people get a taste for power, it’s hard to relinquish it. Be it redemption, revenge, pride or some combination of the three, there’s a long history of elected officials in New York City who’ve fought to get back into politics after losing their seat amid scandal or a bruising defeat at the polls. The 2025 election cycle has been no exception.
Of course if there was a poster boy for political comebacks this year it would be Andrew Cuomo, the front-runner in the Democratic mayoral primary, who resigned as governor in 2021 after a report from the state attorney general’s office concluded he’d sexually harassed nearly a dozen women. (He denies wrongdoing.) Many of the same political, union and business leaders who’d condemned Cuomo amid his fall from grace and pressed him to resign have since pivoted dramatically, backing him in his bid to oust Mayor Eric Adams.
But while Cuomo might be the most high-profile – and so far successful – candidate to launch a comeback bid this year, he isn’t the only man hoping to claw his way back into the halls of political power. A handful of City Council candidates in races across the city are currently hoping to redeem themselves after they lost an election or their political careers were clouded by scandal. Here are the ones to keep an eye on during the June 24 primary.
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