by COLlive reporter
Newly released data show a significant increase in voter participation within the Chabad Jewish community of Crown Heights, now ranking among the largest and most active voting blocs in the city.
The figures come from a comprehensive voter report released by the Jewish Future Alliance (JFA), documenting a sharp rise in both voter registration and turnout during the most recent election cycle.
According to the report, the voter registration campaign supported by more than 60 local shuls and community organizations registered 1,454 new voters since the Democratic primary on June 24, 2025.
Of those newly registered voters, more than 80 percent went on to vote in the general election, a rate well above typical turnout for newly registered voters in New York.
In total, 7,120 members of the Anash community cast ballots in the Mayoral Election on Nov 4th, representing a dramatic increase in participation.
Voting method data show broad utilization of early and mail voting options:
In person:
Early Voting: 2,765
Election Day: 3,600
Affidavit Ballots: 185
Mail:
Absentee Ballots: 127
Early Mail Ballots: 443
The report also highlights strong voter retention. Ninety-four percent of Jewish voters who participated in the primary returned to vote in the general election.
Demographic data point to especially strong participation among younger voters. Seventy-five percent of newly registered Anash voters were under the age of 30, including 509 registrants ages 18–20. At the same time, 24 new registrants were over the age of 70. In the general election, 575 voters were under age 21, while 31 voters over age 90 cast ballots. The oldest Anash voter was 102.
Rabbi Yaacov Behrman, founder of the Jewish Future Alliance, told COLlive: “Our strong turnout sent a powerful message. Regardless of which candidates won or lost, the community gained from every vote. The challenge now is to carry this momentum into the upcoming high-stakes elections.”
Rabbi Lazar Avtzon of the Crown Heights Shul Association said the results mark important progress but noted that work remains.
“This is a significant milestone, but there are still thousands of eligible residents who are not registered,” Avtzon said. “If all of Anash were registered to vote, there could even be a real possibility of electing a member of Anash”.
As part of its post-election outreach, JFA mailed thank-you cards to voters who participated, while ‘we missed you’ cards were sent to voters who did not cast ballots.
The Jewish Future Alliance thanked the residents of Crown Heights, COLlive, and its community partners for their support, with special recognition to the UJA-Federation of New York for backing nonpartisan voter registration and turnout initiatives.
Great work! So now we have Mamdani. A little myopic to imagine that CH has any impact NYC elections. Those were the days, my friend…
And asked us to vote.
Plus. it shows what we hold and helps for local district politics, congressmen etc.
And again, if a Rebbe says to do it beside the common sense benefit, there’s obviously more than meets the eye…
Round of applause to all the big people who endorsed coumo as the front runner to defeat mamdani!
There is an inyan that IF you vote and even if its not for the “winner’ it shows that your community can have an impact. We came out in much larger numbers than in the past, due to those who put in efforts to Get Out the Vote, and while we may not have made a difference in the Mayoral winner, there are other offices and elections coming up in which those running see that we and many other like minded communities like us are waking up and voting in larger numbers so it does pay, to pay attention to… Read more »
And what do we have from all this, and from the previous elections and from the one before that?
Maybe it’s time we lobby to split the boroughs. Why does Brooklyn need the same mayor as Manhatten, queens, etc?