Tiffany Cabán

Tiffany Cabán (Democratic Party) is a member of the New York City Council, representing District 22. She assumed office on January 1, 2022. Her current term ends on January 1, 2026.

Cabán (Democratic Party, Working Families Party) is running for re-election to the New York City Council to represent District 22. She is on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025. The Democratic and Working Families Party primaries for this office on June 24, 2025, were canceled.

Elections

2025

General election

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General election for New York City Council District 22

Incumbent Tiffany Cabán is running in the general election for New York City Council District 22 on November 4, 2025.

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		Tiffany Cabán (D / Working Families Party)

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Democratic primary election

Democratic Primary for New York City Council District 22

The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Tiffany Cabán in round 1 .

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Working Families Party primary election

Working Families Primary for New York City Council District 22

The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Tiffany Cabán in round 1 .

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2023

General election

General election for New York City Council District 22

Incumbent Tiffany Cabán defeated Kelly Klingman in the general election for New York City Council District 22 on November 7, 2023.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Tiffany Cabán (D / Working Families Party)	69.3	9,739
	Kelly Klingman (R / Conservative Party / Animal Welfare Party)	29.9	4,204
	Other/Write-in votes	0.8	113

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 14,056
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Gerald Kann (Populist Party)

Democratic primary election

Democratic Primary for New York City Council District 22

The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Tiffany Cabán in round 1 .

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 6,255
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Republican primary election

Republican Primary for New York City Council District 22

The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Kelly Klingman in round 1 .

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Conservative Party primary election

Conservative Primary for New York City Council District 22

The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Kelly Klingman in round 1 .

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Working Families Party primary election

Working Families Primary for New York City Council District 22

The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Tiffany Cabán in round 1 .

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Endorsements

Cabán received the following endorsements.

2021

General election

General election for New York City Council District 22

Tiffany Cabán defeated Felicia Kalan and Edwin DeJesus in the general election for New York City Council District 22 on November 2, 2021.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Tiffany Cabán (D)	63.4	12,884
	Felicia Kalan (R / Conservative Party / Save Our City Party)	30.6	6,209
	Edwin DeJesus (G)	5.8	1,172
	Other/Write-in votes	0.3	53

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 20,318
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Democratic primary election

Democratic Primary for New York City Council District 22

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The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Tiffany Cabán 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.

	Candidate	%	Total Votes	Transfer	Round eliminated
	Tiffany Cabán	48.9	7,934	0	Advanced (3)
Submit photo	Evie Hantzopoulos	25.7	4,175	0	3
	John Ciafone	10.0	1,617	0	2
Submit photo	Leonardo Bullaro	7.5	1,218	0	2
Submit photo	Catherina Gioino	4.9	803	0	2
Submit photo	Nick Velkov	2.9	463	0	2
	Undeclared Write-insUndeclared write-in candidates may advance past the first round in some ranked-choice elections. If the official source reports write-in votes by candidate name, Ballotpedia displays them alongside the ballot-qualified candidates. However, if write-in votes are reported without a name, they will instead be included in the total write-in votes figure in Round 1. Please consult the official elections source for more details about unnamed write-in candidate vote totals past Round 1.	0.2	30	0

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 16,240
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Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Felicia Kalan advanced from the Republican primary for New York City Council District 22.

Conservative Party primary election

The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. Felicia Kalan advanced from the Conservative Party primary for New York City Council District 22.

2019

General election

General election for Queens County District Attorney

Melinda Katz defeated Joe Murray in the general election for Queens County District Attorney on November 5, 2019.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Melinda Katz (D)	74.9	146,597
	Joe Murray (R)	24.1	47,112
	Other/Write-in votes	1.0	2,040

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 195,749
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Daniel Kogan (R)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Queens County District Attorney

The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Queens County District Attorney on June 25, 2019.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Melinda Katz	38.8	34,920
		Tiffany Cabán	38.7	34,860
		Gregory Lasak	14.5	13,048
	Submit photo	Mina Malik	3.9	3,526
		Rory Lancman	1.6	1,415
	Submit photo	Jose Nieves	1.3	1,210
		Betty Lugo	1.2	1,095

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 90,074
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Queens County District Attorney

Daniel Kogan advanced from the Republican primary for Queens County District Attorney on June 25, 2019.

		Candidate
✔	Submit photo	Daniel Kogan

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Cabán and Queens Borough President Melinda Katz were the top two finishers in the June 25, 2019, Democratic primary for Queens District Attorney. While Cabán appeared to be the first-place finisher on election night, Katz appeared to be the first-place finisher after mail-in ballots were counted. A manual recount which concluded July 25, 2019, found Katz in the lead. The Cabán campaign filed a lawsuit challenging the disqualification of certain affidavit ballots. The New York Supreme Court heard arguments on August 6, 2019. Following the hearing, Cabán decided not to pursue further legal action and formally conceded the race to Katz.^[1]^[2]

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2025

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2023

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2021

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2019

Campaign website

Cabán's campaign website stated the following:

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Center Community Solutions

Assign ADAs to Every Community. District Attorney Cabán’s office will know and listen to the people it serves. Communities should know and have access to their District Attorney. District Attorney Cabán and her office will hold regular town halls and meetings in Queens neighborhoods.

Create a Community Advisory Board. Law enforcement is supposed to protect people. People should have oversight of how they are protected. District Attorney Cabán will provide data and information the community wants and needs.

Let Community Groups Decide Response to Local Gun Violence. Evidence shows communities know how to best deal with gun violence. District Attorney Cabán will listen to and respect their desires.

Expand Survivor Services Unit. Survivors of violence and crime need help to resume their lives, not more trauma or lengthy legal process from inconsiderate or paternalistic prosecutors that do not respect survivors’ wishes.

Decriminalize Poverty and End Racist Law Enforcement.

End Broken Windows Prosecuting. As DA, Tiffany will decline to prosecute crimes of poverty and instead go after wage theft and bad landlords.

End Civil Asset Forfeiture. Prosecutors are incentivized to seize property, because that money goes to the their budgets. District Attorney Cabán’s office will never receive financial benefit from a decision to prosecute; no DA Office should.

Reform Court-Imposed Fines and Fees. District Attorney Cabán’s office will work with courts and defense attorneys to consider a defendant’s ability to pay any imposed fines and fees.

Reinvest Any Proceeds in Services. Any property or money District Attorney Cabán’s office obtains from legal process or grants will go directly to investment in housing, job and education services that evidence shows actually reduce crime.

Require Racial and Economic Impact Analyses of All Charges. The public has a right to know the economic and racial impact of charges filed.

End Mass Incarceration in Queens, Make Queens a Model for the World.

Prosecute Less. Our District Attorneys must focus on putting the work in to obtain the best and safest outcomes for the community, not convicting the greatest number of people. As District Attorney, Tiffany Cabán’s office will use its prosecutorial discretion to decline to charge sex work, recreational drug use, and racist laws.

End Cash Bail. Cash bail penalizes people before they are judged guilty and creates two systems of justice – one for the wealthy, one for the poor. As DA, Tiffany will pursue and invest resources in pretrial services that give people the tools they need to live and succeed.

Charge Misdemeanors with Restraint. Raise the charge standard for misdemeanors from probable cause to beyond a reasonable doubt. Too often, racially biased prosecutions trap people in the system when they are most vulnerable.

Seek Shorter Sentences for Felonies. There is no evidence harsher sentences make communities safer; all they do is keep more people in jail longer and waste resources.

Advocate Against Death by Incarceration. Too many people die in prison. Indefinite incarceration is wrong; parole should be presumed when there are no serious disciplinary issues.

End the War on Drugs.

Decriminalize Recreational Use of Marijuana and Other Drugs. Cannabis has been used by more than half of Americans yet communities of color are disproportionately punished for use of cannabis and other recreational drugs. District Attorney Cabán will not prosecute recreational drug use that does not pose a threat to others.

Treat Substance Use Disorders as a Medical Issue. All evidence points to treatment, not incarceration, as the best way to mitigate harm from substance use. Doctors and nurses, not police, are trained to handle these issues.

Deploy Harm-Reduction Strategies to Combat the Opioid Epidemic. More Americans die from overdoses than car accidents. District Attorney Cabán’s office will seek to provide first responders, teachers, employers, and organizations across Queens with naloxone and other life-saving interventions, including educational outreach and overdose training.

Work with Safe Injection Facilities. Testing for drug impurities and providing medical treatment to people suffering from use disorder can save thousands of lives. Facilities providing these services reduce overdose deaths in surrounding areas by 30% and help communities heal. Each site reduces epidemic-related costs by millions of dollars and provides critical services that meet people where they are.

Decarcerate and Restore Communities.

Establish a Retroactive Release Unit. People currently incarcerated for offenses that are no longer being prosecuted will be released.

Establish a Record Review Unit to Clear Records. Convictions for offenses that are no longer being prosecuted should not prevent people from being employed or getting housing.

Create a Reentry Services Unit to Reduce Recidivism. The best way to prevent repeat offenses is to provide people leaving prison with the basics every person need to live in society, such as housing, job help and education.

Protect Immigrants from Fraud and Abuse. Immigration is not a crime; it is the foundation of our country. Too many abuse our immigrant communities and use fear of deportation against them. ICE is an abusive, renegade agency. Families have a right to be together, and District Attorney Cabán will fight for that right.

Prosecute ICE. DA Cabán will prosecute ICE agents who exceed their authority and endanger our communities under all of New York's relevant statutes and ordinances. Abusive conduct by ICE illegal under New York law will be prosecuted.

No New Jails. Tiffany Cabán supports the No New Jails movement in opposing the Mayor's plan to construct new jails. Rikers needs to be closed, and faster than the proposed timeline. But the solution must focus on community-driven responses and services, and decarceration with housing and career help; Cabán for Queens is the only DA campaign with a plan to center community decisions. Constructing cages is wrong. Closing Rikers can be done, more quickly, through replacing cash bail and pretrial detention with holistic services, and reducing recidivism. Every time new jails are built throughout this country's history, they are filled – and overcrowded. The cycle must stop.

People-Powered Justice Means Racial, Social, and Economic Justice. It Means Safe Communities.

Demilitarize Law Enforcement, Rebuild Community Trust. Community policing means more than hiring more police for some communities. Implicit bias training is not nearly enough. Police and District Attorneys should resemble, come from, live in and listen to the communities they protect, and make services the focal point for intervention.

Target the 6% who Commit 60% of Crimes. Declining to prosecute cases that pose little or no threat to public safety will allow DA Cabán’s office to focus resources on the small number of people who commit the majority of crimes and lead criminal enterprises.

Invest in Schools, Healthcare, Jobs and Housing – Not Jails. Freeing up resources from mass incarceration will allow us to reallocate the $143,000 per prisoner currently spent on on jails. Investing in schools and our kids will make our communities safer. Giving people housing, healthcare, and career opportunities reduces crime. Evidence shows us that the path to a better future is education, not incarceration.

Tackle Corporate Crimes.

Investigate and Prosecute Abusive Landlords. Bad landlords should not be landlords. If they have property in Queens, they will be held accountable in Queens. Bad landlords will be forced to provide adequate housing.

Hold Drug Companies Accountable for Overprescribing. Prescriptions motivated by profit, not public health, rake in billions of dollars in blood money. Companies and doctors that over-marketed or overprescribed these drugs despite knowing their dangers must be brought to court.

Establish Corporate Crime, Consumer Protection, Wage Theft and Antitrust Units. Discriminatory, monopolistic practices and fraud can destroy neighborhood economies. Employers stealing wages forces people to make drastic choices to survive. With Amazon declaring its intention to move in, the most vulnerable communities are likely to get disrupted and marginalized again unless we pursue innovative and proactive enforcement against discriminatory, monopolistic policies and practices that destroy our neighborhood economies.

No Corporate PAC Dollars. Cabán for Queens is a people-powered campaign that rejects corporate PAC donations.^[3]

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—Tiffany Cabán's campaign website (2019)^[4]

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Footnotes

↑ The Huffington Post, "Melinda Katz Comes Out Ahead After Queens DA Race Recount," July 25, 2019
↑ The Huffington Post, "Melinda Katz Fends Off Progressive Tiffany Cabán In Queens Prosecutor Race," August 7, 2019
↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
↑ Tiffany Cabán's campaign website, “Issues,” accessed June 21, 2019

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[1] The Huffington Post, "Melinda Katz Comes Out Ahead After Queens DA Race Recount," July 25, 2019

[2] The Huffington Post, "Melinda Katz Fends Off Progressive Tiffany Cabán In Queens Prosecutor Race," August 7, 2019

[quotedisclaimer-3] Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.

[4] Tiffany Cabán's campaign website, “Issues,” accessed June 21, 2019

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Tiffany Cabán

Elections

2025

General election

General election for New York City Council District 22

Democratic primary election

Democratic Primary for New York City Council District 22

Working Families Party primary election

Working Families Primary for New York City Council District 22

Endorsements

2023

General election

General election for New York City Council District 22

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary election

Democratic Primary for New York City Council District 22

Republican primary election

Republican Primary for New York City Council District 22

Conservative Party primary election

Conservative Primary for New York City Council District 22

Working Families Party primary election

Working Families Primary for New York City Council District 22

Endorsements

2021

General election

General election for New York City Council District 22

Democratic primary election

Democratic Primary for New York City Council District 22

Republican primary election

Conservative Party primary election

2019

General election

General election for Queens County District Attorney

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Queens County District Attorney

Republican primary election

Republican primary for Queens County District Attorney

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2025

Ballotpedia survey responses

2023

2021

2019

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