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NY State Senate · District 27

Lower Manhattan (East Village, Gramercy, Lower East Side, Chinatown, Financial District, Battery Park City) and northwest Brooklyn (Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Williamsburg, Greenpoint).

General election · Tuesday, November 3, 2026

RESULT · UNOFFICIAL UNTIL CERTIFIED

Grace Lee, projected winner

CandidateVotesShare
Grace Lee65,99683.1%
Jason Murillo13,30316.7%

As of November 9. Winners take office next year. Counts can change until states certify. Ballotpedia ↗Wikipedia ↗

Sources re-checked September 25, 2026 · How we research

  • Open seat: incumbent Brian Kavanagh (D) did not file for re-election. Assemblymember Grace Lee defeated former Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou 62.5%-37.3% in the June 23, 2026 Democratic primary.[1]
  • Niou separately won the Working Families Party primary, but Ballotpedia lists her as a withdrawn/disqualified candidate for the general election; she does not appear on the November 3, 2026 general-election ballot, which is a two-candidate race between Lee and Jason Murillo.[1]

On the November 3 ballot · 2 candidates

Grace LeeDWFPPROJECTED WINNERNew York State Assemblymember, District 65 (since 2023); not seeking re-election to the AssemblyFull profile →Jason MurilloRCFull profile →

Issue evidence — side by side

Recorded votes, documented positions and candidates’ own words are shown with sources. “In their own words” quotes a candidate on the topic without inferring a stance. Votes describe specific bills or motions; they do not establish overall support or opposition to a broad issue. A dash means our research has no evidence on that topic, not that the candidate has no position.

Protect legal access to abortion

  • Grace Lee
    Supports[3]

    Platform supports protecting the privacy of abortion providers and patients, backed the 2024 reproductive-freedom ballot measure, and says she helped secure $25 million for the state's Abortion Access Program.

  • Jason Murillo
    —

Expand immigration enforcement and deportations

  • Grace Lee
    Opposes[3]

    Platform calls for ending most state and local cooperation with ICE, banning contracts between local jails and ICE, and keeping ICE out of schools, hospitals, and places of worship; co-sponsors the New York for All Act.

  • Jason Murillo
    —

Stronger rent regulation and tenant protections

  • Grace Lee
    Supports[3]

    Campaign platform supports Good Cause Eviction protections against unreasonable rent increases and retaliatory evictions, and funding legal services for tenants facing harassment.

  • Jason Murillo
    —

Raise taxes on high earners or corporations

  • Grace Lee
    Supports[3]

    Supports higher income-tax rates on the highest earners, a wealth tax on the richest households, closing corporate tax loopholes, and a surcharge on second homes valued at $5 million or more.

  • Jason Murillo
    In their own words[4]
    “I'm not a fan of big government and overspending, raising taxes and unnecessary and excessive taxes that hurts hard working New Yorkers & small businesses, families who are already struggling to survive in these hard times.”

    In his June 2024 Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey (written for a 2025 NYC Council run)

Expand public health coverage

  • Grace Lee
    Supports[3]

    Co-sponsors the New York Health Act to establish a universal single-payer healthcare system and supports a state-funded essential plan for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers.

  • Jason Murillo
    —

Faster transition away from fossil fuels

  • Grace Lee
    Supports[3]

    Platform supports a statewide clean fuel standard for transportation, expanding NYPA's renewable-power role, and requiring corporate emissions transparency.

  • Jason Murillo
    —

Keep congestion pricing in Manhattan

  • Grace Lee
    Supports[3]

    Platform supports Manhattan congestion pricing while seeking an exemption for Lower and Midtown Manhattan residents earning under $60,000.

  • Jason Murillo
    —

Universal, publicly funded child care

  • Grace Lee
    Supports[3]

    Platform states she is fighting for statewide universal childcare access, citing past work securing billions in statewide childcare investment.

  • Jason Murillo
    —

Research notes & limits

Jason Murillo has not completed Ballotpedia's 2026 Candidate Connection survey for this Senate race and has no prior officeholding record; his campaign website (https://jasonforny.wixsite.com/my-site, listed on Ballotpedia) loads and describes him as a conservative leader, but was not mined for positions; his priorities here come from the Candidate Connection survey he completed in 2024 for his 2025 NYC Council District 2 campaign, still displayed on his Ballotpedia page (checked https://ballotpedia.org/Jason_Murillo on 2026-09-25); a fact-check removed a tax_wealthy position drawn from generic anti-tax-increase language in that survey, since it did not address taxes on high earners or corporations specifically, so no positions are recorded for him. Per Ballotpedia, Yuh-Line Niou won the June 2026 Working Families Party primary for this seat but is listed as withdrawn/not appearing on the November 3 general-election ballot, superseding the July 2026 snapshot data that showed her as a WFP-line general-election candidate; she is therefore not included as a candidate in this file. Murillo's biography relies on Ballotpedia and his self-reported 2024 survey; no news profile was found, and his survey gives inconsistent district-leader titles and does not describe a law degree or bar admission.

Sources · 14

Researched 2026-09-25. Green citations are official government records.

  1. 1.Grace Lee (New York) · Ballotpedia Reference
  2. 2.Assemblymember Grace Lee — official Assembly page · New York State Assembly Official record
  3. 3.Policy · Grace Lee for NY Senate (campaign site) Candidate's own words
  4. 4.Jason Murillo's Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey responses (2025 NYC Council campaign) · Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey · 2024-06-11 Candidate's own words
  5. 5.Grace Lee (New York) · Ballotpedia Reference
  6. 6.Assemblymember Grace Lee — official Assembly page · New York State Assembly Official record
  7. 7.Grace Lee — Committee Membership (NY State Assembly) · NY State Assembly Official record
  8. 8.Grace Lee - Assembly District 65 · New York State Assembly · 2026-10-19 Official record
  9. 9.New York State Senate District 27 election results 2026 · Ballotpedia · 2026-11-09 Reference
  10. 10.New York State Senate election results 2026 · Wikipedia · 2026-11-09 Reference
  11. 11.Jason Murillo · Ballotpedia Reference
  12. 12.Jason Murillo's Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey responses (2025 NYC Council campaign) · Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey · 2024-06-11 Candidate's own words
  13. 13.NY State Senate · District 27 results 2026 · Ballotpedia Reference
  14. 14.NY State Senate · District 27 results 2026 · Wikipedia · 2026-11-09 Reference