See also: Historic number of LGBTQ candidates elected in 2020In Queens, Tiffany Cabán, a darling of the Democratic Socialists of America who narrowly lost her 2019 race for Queens District Attorney, in which she nearly toppled a machine-backed candidate and demonstrated the power of the nascent progressive left in New York City politics, was leading a six-person field with 49.4% of the vote, with 87% of precincts reporting.
