Darren Dione Aquino
Darren Dione Aquino (Republican Party) ran for election for Mayor of New York. He did not appear on the ballot for the Republican primary on June 24, 2025.
Biography
Darren Dione Aquino was born in New York, New York. His career experience includes founding the nonprofit organization Advocates for Disabled Americans, Veterans, Police, Firemen & Families. Aquino has also worked as an actor in television shows and movies, including Law & Order: SVU and the Sopranos. Additionally, Aquino has worked as a private chef.[1]
Elections
2025
See also: Mayoral election in New York, New York (2025)
General election
The candidate list in this election may not be complete.
General election for Mayor of New York
The following candidates are running in the general election for Mayor of New York on November 4, 2025.
Candidate | ||
![]() | Eric Adams (Safe&Affordable / EndAntiSemitism) | |
![]() | Zohran Mamdani (D / Working Families Party) | |
![]() | Curtis Sliwa (R / Protect Animals) | |
![]() | Irene Estrada (Conservative Party) | |
Andrew Cuomo (Fight and Deliver) | ||
Joseph Hernandez (Quality of Life) | ||
![]() | Jean Anglade (Independent) ![]() | |
![]() | Kyle Gutierrez (Independent) | |
![]() | Abbey Laurel-Smith (Independent) ![]() | |
![]() | Montell Moseley (Independent) (Write-in) ![]() | |
![]() | Karen Stachel (Independent) (Write-in) ![]() |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Gowri Krishna (Working Families Party)
- James Walden (Integrity)
Democratic primary election
Democratic Primary for Mayor of New York
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Zohran Mamdani in round 3 . 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.
Total votes: 1,071,730 |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Deirdre Levy (D)
- Cleopatra Fitzgerald (D)
- Corinne Fisher (D)
Republican primary election
Republican Primary for Mayor of New York
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Curtis Sliwa in round 1 .
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Darren Dione Aquino (R)
- Montell Moseley (R)
- Kris Lord (R)
- Joe Alny (R)
- James Manning (R)
- Gonzalo Duran (R)
- Naomi Coley (R)
- Fátimazöhra Nouinou (R)
- John Harris (R)
- Ronen Nahom (R)
- David Rem (R)
Conservative Party primary election
Conservative Primary for Mayor of New York
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Irene Estrada in round 1 .
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Working Families Party primary election
Working Families Primary for Mayor of New York
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Gowri Krishna in round 1 .
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2022
See also: Florida's 26th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Florida District 26
Incumbent Mario Diaz-Balart defeated Christine Alexandria Olivo in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 26 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mario Diaz-Balart (R) | 70.9 | 143,240 |
![]() | Christine Alexandria Olivo (D) | 29.1 | 58,868 |
Total votes: 202,108 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Christine Alexandria Olivo advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 26.
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 26
Incumbent Mario Diaz-Balart defeated Darren Dione Aquino in the Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 26 on August 23, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mario Diaz-Balart | 84.3 | 36,861 |
![]() | Darren Dione Aquino | 15.7 | 6,885 |
Total votes: 43,746 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Ruth Swanson (R)
2020
See also: Florida's 19th Congressional District election, 2020
Florida's 19th Congressional District election, 2020 (August 18 Republican primary)
Florida's 19th Congressional District election, 2020 (August 18 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Florida District 19
Byron Donalds defeated Cindy Banyai and Patrick Post in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 19 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Byron Donalds (R) | 61.3 | 272,440 |
![]() | Cindy Banyai (D) ![]() | 38.7 | 172,146 | |
![]() | Patrick Post (D) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 3 |
Total votes: 444,589 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Antonio Dumornay (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 19
Cindy Banyai defeated David Holden in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 19 on August 18, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Cindy Banyai ![]() | 57.6 | 28,765 |
![]() | David Holden ![]() | 42.4 | 21,212 |
Total votes: 49,977 (100.00% precincts reporting) | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 19
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 19 on August 18, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Byron Donalds | 22.6 | 23,492 |
![]() | Dane Eagle | 21.9 | 22,715 | |
![]() | Casey Askar ![]() | 20.0 | 20,774 | |
![]() | William Figlesthaler ![]() | 18.3 | 19,075 | |
![]() | Randy Henderson | 7.6 | 7,858 | |
![]() | Christy McLaughlin ![]() | 4.1 | 4,245 | |
![]() | Dan Severson ![]() | 3.1 | 3,197 | |
![]() | Darren Dione Aquino ![]() | 1.4 | 1,466 | |
![]() | Daniel Kowal ![]() | 1.1 | 1,135 |
Total votes: 103,957 (100.00% precincts reporting) | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Francis Rooney (R)
- Ford O’Connell (R)
- Heather Fitzenhagen (R)
Campaign themes
2025
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2022
Darren Dione Aquino did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Aquino's campaign website stated the following:
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Fighting for the Forgotten As congressman, Darren will fight tirelessly for the forgotten men and women of America. In his twenties, Darren was a struggling father with two disabilities, but out of pure self-determination, Darren rose up from poverty. Understanding the struggle himself, for 40 years, Darren has been a champion for those who are neglected. He has become an icon for disabled advocacy, advising 4 presidents, creating and running Advocates for Disabled Americans, Veterans, Police, Fireman & Families (ADA VETs) since 1999. There are 70,000 homeless veterans in the streets of America — Darren believes this is unacceptable. As your Congressman, Darren will give the needed focus on these forgotten men and women.
Darren Aquino experienced the greatest of America first-hand and understands the dangers of the anti-American sentiment that prevails in society today. Leaders in Congress call America fundamentally “racist” and Fake News media do just the same. American youth, so civically illiterate, adhere to the dangerous claims made by these leaders. Darren is leading the fight to stop this. Darren supports a nationalized Patriot Test, in which American high-school students are required to pass a basic civics test that assesses American values, ideas, governmental-composition and history in order to graduate high school. As congressman, Darren will call out anti-Americans who prevail in Congress, like Ilhan Omar and AOC and will propose legislation that requires people running for Congress to be naturally-born Americans. Looting, rioting and violence — a symptom of anti-American sentiment — needs to stop and Darren is fighting against it.
As rioting and looting spread across the country and calls for defunding police become mainstream, now, more than ever, is it important to ensure every American citizens’ fundamental right to protect themselves. “Assault rifle bans” are pointless — criminals don’t follow laws! As Congressman, Darren will fight tirelessly to ensure your 2nd amendment right is not stripped away.
The Chinese Virus pandemic has highlighted America’s need for in-country manufacturing and America-first economics. Darren Aquino will make sure to be principled in his American-First, District-First approach to the economy. Through deregulation, southwest Florida infrastructural proposals, and pro-American trade deals, Darren Aquino will bring the biggest amount of jobs that southwest Florida has ever seen. Furthermore, as a self-made man, Darren understands the struggle for hard-earned money, and supports a decrease in federal taxes, including the elimination of the federal tax on overtime labor. Darren Aquino will fight for the Great American Comeback and the Great Southwest Florida Comeback.
Medicare and Medicaid as we know it is a fundamental right of protection through social security, but it is being depleted due to mismanagement of prior administrations: Clinton and Obama. My experience for 35 years working with the disabled allowed me to see and actually experience the deficiencies, and inspired me to repair it. This is not a creative repair, but a common sense repair. In addition, mental illness has been largely overlooked in the healthcare community. The mentally ill have been abandoned and neglected for too long. This issue has fallen on the lap of local law enforcement around the country. This is a healthcare issue. This is not the duty of law enforcement, it overburdens the system.
The Water Resource Development Act (WRDA) of 2018 clearly stated that the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Storage Reservoir is part of the Central Everglades Planning Project. However, the Army Corps of Engineers’ bureaucracy still designated this as a “new start,” thus delaying the needed project that would have otherwise been completed in time and under budget. As your congressman, I will help diminish this act by the Army Corps. Furthermore, as your congressman, I will continue to support additional WRDAs that will provide needed insight and projects to aid water management and precision water ecosystems in Southwest Florida.
Because of the Chinese Virus pandemic, our unemployment rate is at an all-time high. Thus, now more than ever, is it important to have a representative who says NO to illegal immigrants stealing American jobs. Right now we have 70,000 veterans living on the street and they deserve jobs, not illegal immigrants. As your congressman, Darren Aquino will fight to increase the power of ICE, cracking down on illegal immigration. Darren Aquino will also fight for our border wall, increases in border security, and cracking down on overstayed VISAs. He will support federally mandated E-verify laws to crack down on businesses profiting from illegal workers.
China poses a threat as great as the Soviet Union! China’s lack of regard for basic human rights and their utter aggression, both militarily in Eurasia and intellectually all across the globe, poses an existential threat to America. Through continuing sanctions on Chinese officials and corporations, through continuing the private-public initiative for American technology companies to properly rival Chinese ones, through pushing legislation that allows American citizens to sue China and the Chinese Communist Party for negligence and intention for the Chinese Virus spread, Darren Aquino will stand up to Xi Jinping and China.
The Declaration of Independence states that all people are endowed to their unalienable rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Unfortunately, because of leftists and pro-death activists, babies are deprived of their right to have a chance at life. As your congressman, Darren Aquino promises to fight tirelessly for babies’ rights, continuing his 40-year fight for the forgotten.
Our education system is failing too many, but we will change that. Lee County is home to one of the best schooling systems in the world: a school choice system. As your congressman, Darren Aquino will support laws that expand school choice programs across the United States and he will continue his career-long fight for the rights of those who are forgotten.[2] |
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—Darren Dione Aquino's campaign website (2022)[3] |
2020
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Darren Dione Aquino completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Aquino's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|Darren is a Puerto-Rican, Italian American, who began advocating for the disabled in 1983. Darren founded this national non-profit in 1999. with a unique concept, all members and volunteers are disabled. This comprehensive network of members and volunteers assist the disabled community with all issues involving lack of societal integration, lack of due process and lack of fair and equal treatment.
Darren Aquino has been fighting for individuals for over 35 years, and should he become a Congressman, he will know how to fight for his district.- I will protect and fight for ALL people as I've done for over 35 years advocating for the disabled and their rights.
- I will protect our right to bear arms and protect the constitution.
- We will ALWAYS put the needs of the district first.
Facilities are crowded, there is no integration of programs to treat the "whole" person. The mentally ill, especially our disabled veterans, are not getting the care they deserve. Homelessness is increased by the influx of the untreated mentally ill.
2)Constitutional Rights Enforcement-vital to the growth of America. Those amendments were set forth by our forefathers for the daily fundamental rights of the citizens. These are known as freedoms, liberties, the right to pursue uninfringed is the most important duty for a congressman or woman. These are inherent rights. We are the guardians of our forefathers. dreams
Seven of the most powerful constitutional rights are deprived disabled citizens on a daily basis .
I was at Yankee stadium after 911, when the President threw the first ball. All Americans were mourning our loss and celebrating our patriotism and unity , as a united America, celebrating those who had sacrificed.
half a pension, and 3rd term, full pension. You should not be allowed both pension and Social Security.
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2025 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 23, 2020
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Aquino For Congress 2022, “Promises,” accessed August 19, 2022
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