Eon Tyrell Huntley

Eon Tyrell Huntley describes himself as a father, retail worker, lifelong Brooklynite, democratic socialist and three-term PTA president. He ran unsuccessfully in the 2024 Democratic primary for Assembly District 56, then defeated incumbent Stefani Zinerman in the June 23, 2026 Democratic primary and is unopposed in the November general election. His campaign website lists universal childcare, a rent freeze and expanded rent controls among his priorities.[1][2]

According to his Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey and campaign website, Eon Tyrell Huntley grew up in East New York and in NYCHA's Pink Houses; his father immigrated from Guyana and his mother is a second-generation Brooklynite.[1][2] He says he attended New York City public schools, and Ballotpedia lists a high school diploma from the High School of Art and Design and a bachelor's degree from the Parsons School of Design in 2006.[1] Huntley describes working as a fashion designer and, currently, a retail clothing salesman, and Ballotpedia lists his profession as retail.[1][2] He says that as a member of the bargaining committee for Workers United Local 340, he fought for and won healthcare coverage for fellow workers.[1][2]

Huntley says he served three terms as PTA president at his daughters' school and co-founded a mobile food pantry that fed hundreds of Brooklyn residents each month during the COVID-19 pandemic.[1][2] In his survey he says he has lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant for 19 years with his wife Rebecca, a public school teacher.[1]

Huntley ran in the June 25, 2024 Democratic primary for Assembly District 56 and lost to incumbent Stefani Zinerman, who received 52.8% of the vote to his 46.9%.[1] On June 23, 2026 he defeated Zinerman and a third candidate, Michael Bailey, in the Democratic primary with 58.3% of the vote, and he also advanced on the Working Families Party line after that party's primary was canceled.[1]

Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21.