Yvette clarke primary results
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Rep. Yvette Clarke fends off primary challengers in the Democratic primary for New York's 9th district
- Yvette Clarke, a longtime congresswoman from Brooklyn's 9th congressional district defeated multiple Democratic primary challengers this year.
- She won her re-match against organizer Adem Bunkeddeko, who won 47% of the vote against her in 2018, and a challenge from Brooklyn councilman Chaim Deutsch.
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The stakes:
Yvette Clarke, a longtime congresswoman from Brooklyn, defeated multiple Democratic primary challengers this year, both from the left and the right.
Clarke's district, located in Central Brooklyn, includes part of the neighborhoods of Crown Heights, Brownsville, Midwood, and Sheepshead Bay. The district is half African-American and also includes a substantial Orthodox Jewish community.
In the 2018 Democratic primary, Clarke narrowly won re-election with 53% of the vote against progressive primary challenger Adem Bunkeddeko, a community organizer and son of Ugandan refugees.
Bunkeddeko ran for the Democratic nomination again this year in his second attempt to defeat Clarke, styling himself as a reformer and an "anti-machine progressive."
Clarke, who has se
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2024 New Royalty U.S. Line Primary Selection Results
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District 1
| Candidate | Total Votes | % Votes | |
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| 19,026 | 70.3% | ||
| 8,053 | 29.7% | ||
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| Unopposed |
District 2
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District 3
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District 4
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Anthony D'Esposito (R)* Anthony D'Esposito (R)* | Unopposed |
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District 5
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District 6
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District 7
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District 8
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District 9
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District 10
| Candidate | Total Votes | % Votes | |
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| 22,708 | 66.1% | ||
| 8,073 | 23.5% | ||
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| Unopposed |
District 11
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District 12
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Yvette Clarke
American politician (born 1964)
Yvette Diane Clarke (born November 21, 1964) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 9th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she first entered Congress in 2007, representing New York's 11th congressional district until redistricting. Clarke represented the 40th district in Brooklyn on the New York City Council from 2002 to 2006.
Early life and education
[edit]Clarke was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on November 21, 1964, to Lesley Clarke and former city councilwoman Una Clarke, both immigrants from Jamaica.[1][2] She graduated from Edward R. Murrow High School and earned a scholarship to enroll at Oberlin College in Ohio, which she attended from 1982 to 1986.[3] While studying at Oberlin, she spent a summer interning in the Washington, D.C. office of Representative Major Owens, where she told Roll Call that she worked on legislative issues involving Caribbean-American trade.[4][5]
In August 2006, Crain's New York Business and the Daily News reported that Clarke's Oberlin transcripts indicated that she had not graduated, contrary to what her campaign literature claimed.[6] Clarke initially