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Grace Meng won her Queens congressional primary by nearly 14 points, with Orthodox precincts in Kew Gardens Hills voting 92% in her favor over challenger Chuck Park

Congresswoman Grace Meng won the June 23 Democratic primary in NY-6 by 14 points, with Orthodox neighborhoods in Kew Gardens Hills voting 92% in her favor over challenger Chuck Park. Unofficial results show strong turnout in key precincts despite boroughwide underperformance.

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Grace Meng won her Queens congressional primary by nearly 14 points, with Orthodox precincts in Kew Gardens Hills voting 92% in her favor over challenger Chuck Park

Congresswoman Grace Meng won the June 23 Democratic primary in NY-6 by 14 points, with Orthodox neighborhoods in Kew Gardens Hills voting 92% in her favor over challenger Chuck Park. Unofficial results show strong turnout in key precincts despite boroughwide underperformance.

Grace Meng won her Queens congressional primary by nearly 14 points, with Orthodox precincts in Kew Gardens Hills voting 92% in her favor over challenger Chuck Park
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Grace Meng won the June 23 Democratic primary for New York’s 6th Congressional District by a margin of 4,460 votes, defeating challenger Chuck Park 18,134 to 13,674 (56.85% to 42.87%), according to unofficial results from the New York City Board of Elections. A precinct-level breakdown published by the Queens Jewish Link shows that Orthodox neighborhoods across central Queens voted for Meng at higher rates than her districtwide numbers, with some individual election districts returning lopsided results.

In Assembly District 27, which covers the heavily Orthodox stretch of Kew Gardens Hills and Hillcrest, Meng beat Park 3,463 to 1,019 (77% to 23%), according to Queens Jewish Link reporter Shabsie Saphirstein’s analysis of Board of Elections returns. Across Assembly District 27 election districts 20 through 30, Meng received 2,033 votes to Park’s 164, earning more than 92% of the two-candidate vote in those districts. ED 25 went 293 to 6, ED 27 went 398 to 7, and ED 29 went 252 to 5.

Saphirstein reported similar results in other Orthodox areas. In Assembly District 25, covering Fresh Meadows and northeastern Queens, Meng posted margins of 99 to 20 in ED 16 and 93…

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