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Chi Osse
2022 - Present
2026
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Chi Osse (Democratic Party) is a member of the New York City Council, representing District 36. He assumed office on January 1, 2022. His current term ends on January 1, 2026.
Osse (Democratic Party) is running for re-election to the New York City Council to represent District 36. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025. He advanced from the Democratic primary on June 24, 2025.
Biography
Chi Osse was born in Brooklyn, New York. His professional experience includes being a freelance worker. Osse has been affiliated with Warriors in the Garden, Collective Fare, Bed-Stuy Strong, Churches United for Fair Housing, Working Families Party, and Citizen Action.[1]
Elections
2025
See also: City elections in New York, New York (2025)
General election
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General election for New York City Council District 36
Incumbent Chi Osse is running in the general election for New York City Council District 36 on November 4, 2025.
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Democratic primary election
Democratic Primary for New York City Council District 36
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Chi Osse in round 1 .
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Total votes: 30,429 |
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Endorsements
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2023
See also: City elections in New York, New York (2023)
General election
General election for New York City Council District 36
Incumbent Chi Osse won election in the general election for New York City Council District 36 on November 7, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Chi Osse (D / Working Families Party) | 98.8 | 9,735 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.2 | 123 | ||
| Total votes: 9,858 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic Primary for New York City Council District 36
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Chi Osse in round 1 .
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Working Families Party primary election
Working Families Primary for New York City Council District 36
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Chi Osse in round 1 .
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Endorsements
Osse received the following endorsements.
2021
See also: City elections in New York, New York (2021)
General election
General election for New York City Council District 36
Chi Osse won election in the general election for New York City Council District 36 on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Chi Osse (D) | 99.3 | 18,999 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.7 | 126 | ||
| Total votes: 19,125 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic Primary for New York City Council District 36
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Chi Osse in round 4 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.
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Total votes: 23,240 |
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Endorsements
To view Osse's endorsements in the 2021 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2025
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2023
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2021
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In the wake of the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Ossé co-founded the activist collective Warriors in the Garden, and led hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers in the marches and rallies — the collective call for Black liberation.
Culture is a concept central to Ossé’s worldview. He has worked for years in New York’s gig entertainment gig economy, and his father, Reggie Ossé, professionally known as Combat Jack, was a hip-hop music attorney. But the “culture scene” is only a small slice of culture.
Culture is our clothes and food and language and history — and woven into the fabric of American culture are inequality, injustice, and racism.
Ossé is called to politics for its potential to combine the institutional power of government with the tidal strength of movements to enact policy and heal our culture. Diversity is our strength, and Chi Ossé is devoted to diversity’s bravest manifestation: democracy.- We must reimagine the old systems that have lost their utility or failed us, devising improvements and, where necessary, developing new institutions entirely.
- We must Reinvest our resources from inefficient and ineffective uses and into our schools, parks, and community development programs.
- We must renew the relationships between government and citizen, between institutions and community, as those of mutual respect and shared prosperity.
Education. Our schools are underfunded and segregated and the outcomes for students are in dire need of improvement. I am committed to education equity and excellence, through fully funding our schools, from pre-K to a college education at CUNY. We will incentivize more teachers into the workforce, bring more counselors into our schools, expand co-curricular workshops (including pushing for a high pay ceiling for small CBOs) and give the rising generation the recognition it deserves: as a top priority.
Sanitation. Our Sanitation Department was severely defunded and our rat problem has exploded. In office, I commit to clean streets and a fully funded Department of Sanitation that resembles the 2019 budget or higher. Clean streets in Central Brooklyn really means clean and rodent free.
The City Council is so integral to New York’s self-government because our annual budget of over 80 billion dollars is overseen and directed by people who grew up in our communities, know us and our struggles, and are committed to bringing us results.
I hope to leave a legacy of an improved New York City and improved district 36: one with funded education and sanitation, a clean environment, and safe neighborhoods. But I also want to leave a new set of tools, a new way to reform institutions and build new ones. Our system doesn’t need tweaks; it demands overhaul. We can reimagine both the way we run our city and the way we change it. That’s why I’m running for the New York City Council.
Non-profit workers, community organizers, and education leaders often prove to be the most effective and well-liked representatives, because they channel the needs of their communities, even when those needs include the reorienting or deconstructing of failed institutions.
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See also
2025 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 4, 2021
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