Buffalo: 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-26; State Senate SD-61 and SD-63; Assembly AD-140, 141, 142, 143 and 149; Erie County Clerk; Erie County Legislature districts covering the city; four Justices of the Supreme Court (8th Judicial District); one Buffalo City Court Judge; eleven City of Buffalo charter-amendment propositions. No U.S. Senate seat is up in New York in 2026..
Holding office18
the sitting council
On the ballot12
5 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Buffalo is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): New York's 26th congressional district (city hall; all 208 of Buffalo's election districts are in NY-26) — Timothy M. Kennedy (Democratic)
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Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sean M. Ryan Elected | Mayor | Democratic | Erie County Board of Elections |
2
Member of the Assembly — AD-141
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leah M. Halton-Pope ✉️ Elected acclaimed | Councilmember → Running for Member of the Assembly | Democratic | AD-141 | Erie County Board of Elections |
3
City Comptroller
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbara Miller-Williams Elected | City Comptroller | Democratic | citywide | Erie County Board of Elections |
4
Councilmember
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan J. Bollman ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Democratic | Lovejoy District | Erie County Board of Elections |
| Christopher P. Scanlon ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Democratic | South District | Erie County Board of Elections |
| David A. Rivera ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Democratic | Niagara District | Erie County Board of Elections |
| Joel P. Feroleto ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Democratic | Delaware District | Erie County Board of Elections |
| Joseph Golombek Jr. ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Democratic | North District | Erie County Board of Elections |
| Mitchell P. Nowakowski ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Democratic | Fillmore District | Erie County Board of Elections |
| Rasheed N.C. Wyatt ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Democratic | University District | Erie County Board of Elections |
| Zeneta B. Everhart ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Democratic | Masten District | Erie County Board of Elections |
5
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kathy Hochul Elected | Governor → Running | Democratic | Office of the Governor (governor.ny.gov) | |
| Bruce A. Blakeman | Governor Running | Republican | Erie County Board of Elections |
6
Lieutenant Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antonio Delgado Elected | Lieutenant Governor | — | Erie County Board of Elections | |
| Adrienne E. Adams | Lieutenant Governor Running | Democratic | Erie County Board of Elections | |
| Todd Hood | Lieutenant Governor Running | Republican | Erie County Board of Elections |
7
Member of the Assembly — AD-149
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam L. Bojak | Member of the Assembly Running | Democratic | Erie County Board of Elections | |
| Frank M. Bogulski | Member of the Assembly Running | Republican | Erie County Board of Elections |
8
State Senator — SD-61
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan D. Rivera ✉️ Elected acclaimed | Member of the Assembly → Running for State Senator | Democratic | New York State Assembly |
9
State Senator — SD-63
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April N. McCants-Baskin ✉️ Elected | State Senator → Running | Democratic | Erie County Board of Elections | |
| Geoffrey M. Szymanski | State Senator Running | Republican | Erie County Board of Elections |
10
U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles E. Schumer Elected | U.S. Senator | Democratic | Erie County Board of Elections | |
| Kirsten E. Gillibrand Elected | U.S. Senator | Democratic | Erie County Board of Elections |
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U.S. Representative — NY-26
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Timothy M. Kennedy Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Democratic | Office of the Clerk, U.S. House | |
| Dennis E. Hannon | U.S. Representative Running | Republican | Erie County Board of Elections |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Candidates: Erie County Board of Elections '2026 General Candidates List For Web' (PDF created 2026-09-10) — the only 2026 general list posted; no later certified list was linked (a 'Can_List_Final_10-07.pdf' link on the home page is a dead redirect). Party = every ballot line, as printed (D Democratic, R Republican, C Conservative, W Working Families, VA Vote Affordable); partyShort = the major-party line. Write-ins excluded; primary losers are not on the list.
- District coverage (Erie BOE 2026 Apportionment book): Buffalo's 208 election districts are all in NY-26; 152 in SD-63 and 56 in SD-61; Assembly AD-141 (103), AD-149 (49), AD-142 (32), AD-140 (17) and AD-143 (7). Only the city-hall state districts (SD-63, AD-149) are recorded as people, per the brief.
- City-hall seats: SD-63 April N. McCants-Baskin (D/W, sitting) v Geoffrey M. Szymanski (R/C). AD-149 is open: the sitting member Jonathan D. Rivera is running unopposed for SD-61 (sitting senator Jeremy J. Zellner not on the list); Adam L. Bojak (D/W) v Frank M. Bogulski (R/C). NY-26: Timothy M. Kennedy (D, sitting) v Dennis E. Hannon (R/C). Governor: Hochul/Adams (D/W) v Blakeman/Hood (R/C/VA). State Comptroller (DiNapoli D/W v Hernandez R/C) and Attorney General (James D/W v Komatireddy R/C) are also on the ballot but are not recorded as people.
- Councilmember Leah M. Halton-Pope (Ellicott) is the only candidate for Assembly District 141 (Democratic line); the sitting AD-141 member Crystal D. Peoples is not on the list. She is recorded once, on her council row, as incumbent-running with runningFor AD-141.
- Municipal: Mayor, City Comptroller and the nine district Councilmembers, with party and official email, from the Erie BOE '2026 Directory of Public Officials' inside the 2026 Apportionment book (Feb 20, 2026), confirmed by name in the State Comptroller's City of Buffalo budget review B26-1-5 (May 8, 2026), which also gives 2026 leadership (President Feroleto, Majority Leader Halton-Pope, President Pro Tempore Everhart). District names match OpenData Buffalo's 'Council Spotlight' story (updated 2025-12-05; its leadership labels are from 2025). Scanlon's party is blank in the Directory; it is taken from his 2023 certified nomination (Erie BOE 2023 General Election Candidates Certification, Democratic line).
- Buffalo has no municipal contest on the 2026 ballot other than one City Court Judge (Michael J. Pacifico, Democratic, sole candidate; judicial, not recorded) and eleven charter-amendment propositions. Council seats and City Comptroller were last elected in November 2023 (four-year terms) — next municipal election November 2027; Mayor next in November 2029.
- BLOCKED / not used: www.buffalony.gov answers a Cloudflare 'Sorry, you have been blocked' page even to robots.txt (civicplus.io); ny-buffalo.civicplus.com robots.txt is 'Disallow: /' for all agents; www.nysenate.gov returns a Cloudflare managed challenge to robots.txt; www.senate.gov returns Akamai 403 to robots.txt; buffalony.iqm2.com timed out. None retried with another User-Agent or tool. So no city photos or council-page statements, and no State Senate photo.
- The Erie BOE documents print candidate and officials' home or office street addresses and phone numbers; none were copied. Emails kept are official government addresses printed in the 2026 Directory. standsFor is null for everyone: no official list carries candidate statements. No Ballotpedia, Wikipedia or news used as a source; a web search only pointed to the OSC review and the OpenData story.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- Erie County Board of Elections — 2026 Apportionment and Enrollment book, '2026 Directory of Public Officials' (dated February 20, 2026) — City of Buffalo Officials; confirmed in Office of the New York State Comptroller — City of Buffalo budget review B26-1-5 (May 8, 2026), addressees and cc list 11
- Erie County Board of Elections — 2026 General Candidates List (PDF created 2026-09-10) 7
- Erie County Board of Elections — 2026 Apportionment and Enrollment book, '2026 Directory of Public Officials' (dated February 20, 2026); term dates from the @unitedstates congress-legislators file (CC0) — senate.gov returned Akamai 403 2
- Erie County Board of Elections — Offices to be Elected (8/31/2026), Lieutenant Governor 'in place of Antonio Delgado (D)'; Erie BOE 2026 Directory of Public Officials prints him with no party 1
- Erie County Board of Elections — 2026 Apportionment and Enrollment book, '2026 Directory of Public Officials' (dated February 20, 2026) (State Senate, 63rd District) — nysenate.gov is behind a Cloudflare challenge 1
- New York State Assembly — Member page, Assembly District 149; party and email from the Erie BOE 2026 Directory of Public Officials 1
- Office of the Governor (governor.ny.gov) — '57th Governor of New York State, Kathy Hochul'; also Erie BOE 2026 Directory of Public Officials ('Kathy C. Hochul (D)') 1
- Office of the Clerk, U.S. House — Member Data XML (publish-date October 1, 2026; bioguide K000402) 1