Albany: who represents it, and who is running
U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects governor and Lieutenant Governor (joint ticket), State Comptroller, Attorney General; U.S. Representative NY-20; State Senate SD-46; Assembly AD-109; Albany County offices. No U.S. Senate seat is up in New York in 2026. No City of Albany office (city elections are in odd years)..
Holding office24
the sitting council
On the ballot4
1 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Albany is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): New York's 20th congressional district (covers the whole city) — Paul Tonko (Democratic)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorcey L. Applyrs Elected | Mayor | Independent | City of Albany |
2
Chief City Auditor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Fein ✉️ Elected | Chief City Auditor | Independent | City of Albany |
3
Common Council Member
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alfredo Balarin Elected | Common Council Member | Independent | Ward 11 | City of Albany |
| Arthur Lumpkin Elected | Common Council Member | Independent | Ward 3 | City of Albany |
| Deborah Zamer Elected | Common Council Member | Independent | Ward 14 | City of Albany |
| Deirdre Brodie Elected | Common Council Member | Independent | Ward 6 | City of Albany |
| Derek Johnson Elected | Common Council Member | Independent | Ward 2 | City of Albany |
| Ginnie Farrell Elected | Common Council Member | Independent | Ward 13 | City of Albany |
| Jack Flynn Elected | Common Council Member | Independent | Ward 8 | City of Albany |
| John Williamson Elected | Common Council Member | Independent | Ward 1 | City of Albany |
| Lormenzo Jones Elected | Common Council Member | Independent | Ward 4 | City of Albany |
| Mark Robinson Elected | Common Council Member | Independent | Ward 5 | City of Albany |
| Meghan Keegan Elected | Common Council Member | Independent | Ward 9 | City of Albany |
| Owusu Anane Elected | Common Council Member | Independent | Ward 10 | City of Albany |
| Rachel Powell Elected | Common Council Member | Independent | Ward 12 | City of Albany |
| Sergio Adams Elected | Common Council Member | Independent | Ward 7 | City of Albany |
| Tom Hoey Elected | Common Council Member | Independent | Ward 15 | City of Albany |
4
Common Council President
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kelly Kimbrough Elected | Common Council President | Independent | President | City of Albany |
5
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kathy Hochul Elected | Governor → Running | Democratic | Monroe County Board of Elections | |
| Bruce A. Blakeman | Governor Running | Republican | Monroe County Board of Elections |
6
Lieutenant Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antonio Delgado Elected | Lieutenant Governor | Democratic | Monroe County Board of Elections | |
| Adrienne E. Adams | Lieutenant Governor Running | Democratic | Monroe County Board of Elections | |
| Todd Hood | Lieutenant Governor Running | Republican | Monroe County Board of Elections |
7
Member of the Assembly — AD-109
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gabriella A. Romero Elected | Member of the Assembly | — | New York State Assembly |
8
U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles E. Schumer Elected | U.S. Senator | Democratic | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov not used (HTTP 403 even for robots.txt in earlier runs) | |
| Kirsten E. Gillibrand Elected | U.S. Senator | Democratic | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov not used (HTTP 403 even for robots.txt in earlier runs) |
9
U.S. Representative — NY-20
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Tonko Elected | U.S. Representative | Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Districts: Census geocoder at City Hall (42.6503,-73.7556; the one-line address did not match) gives NY-20, SD-46, AD-109. A 6x6 grid (15 points inside 'Albany city') found only NY-20, SD-46 and AD-109; the Common Council page also lists 'NY State Assembly 109th District' and 'NY State Senate 46th District' for the city.
- Candidates NOT captured for NY-20, SD-46 and AD-109. The Albany County Board of Elections (www.albanycountyny.gov; robots allows, 'User-agent: *' grouped with Siteimprove 'Crawl-delay: 20' — honoured) renders its Candidates, Offices to Be Filled and Sample Ballots pages client-side from a CivicPlus content API that needs a bearer token; the served HTML holds no list, so nothing was read and the API was not called. elections.ny.gov answers robots.txt with a Cloudflare 'Just a moment…' challenge. Saratoga and Schenectady County sites (other NY-20 counties) have robots.txt 'User-agent: ClaudeBot / Disallow: /' — not fetched. Montgomery County's BOE page only carries 2025 lists. A web search found no other official 2026 NY-20 list.
- Governor/Lieutenant Governor rows are copied from us-rochester (Monroe County BOE 'Offices and Office Holders 2026' and the certified 'GE26 Candidates List Certification (10-6-26)'): Hochul (incumbent) with Adrienne E. Adams on Democratic and Working Families lines v Blakeman/Hood on Republican, Conservative and Vote Affordable lines; sitting Lt Governor Antonio Delgado not on the ballot. Statewide contests are identical across counties; not re-read for Albany. State Comptroller and Attorney General are on the ballot but not listed as people.
- State legislators: AD-109 Gabriella A. Romero from nyassembly.gov (robots disallows only GPTBot). SD-46: www.nysenate.gov is behind Cloudflare (earlier runs; not retried), so the sitting senator is NOT recorded — coordinator to add from an official source.
- Municipal: Mayor from albanyny.gov 'Meet the Mayor'; Common Council President and the 15 ward members (with Majority Leader and President Pro-Tempore) from 'Albany Common Council Members & Wards' (albanyny.gov robots: 'User-agent: *' Crawl-delay 10 — honoured). Ward boundaries redrawn for the 2025 election, in effect January 1, 2026. Chief City Auditor Sam Fein (an elected citywide office in Albany) from the Office of Audit & Control page. The City Treasurer is also elected citywide, but the Treasurer page names no officeholder — not recorded. No individual official emails are printed on the council page; no city photos linked.
- City elections: Albany elects its Mayor, Council President, Common Council, Treasurer and Chief City Auditor in odd-numbered years (2025 last); no City of Albany office is on the 2026-11-03 ballot. Next: November 2029 for the four-year citywide and council terms begun January 2026 (inferred from the cycle and the 2025 ward-transition note, not from an election list).
- Federal: Senators from the CC0 legislators-current.json; NY-20 from house.gov/representatives. standsFor null for everyone. No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded (the Audit office phone and street address on its page were not copied). One User-Agent throughout.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-11-01. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- City of Albany — Albany Common Council Members & Wards 16
- Monroe County Board of Elections — Certification of Candidates for the November 3, 2026 General Election (amended as of 10/6/26 9:22 am; certified under Election Law §4-112) 3
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov not used (HTTP 403 even for robots.txt in earlier runs) 2
- Monroe County Board of Elections — Offices and Office Holders 2026 (dated 3/5/2026) ('Delgado, Antonio', last elected 2022 on D-W, enrolled dem) 1
- City of Albany — Meet the Mayor 1
- New York State Assembly — Member page, Assembly District 109 1
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives 1
- City of Albany — Office of Audit & Control 1
- Monroe County Board of Elections — Offices and Office Holders 2026 (dated 3/5/2026) ('Hochul, Kathy C.', last elected 2022, term expires 2026) 1