Preliminary results from Tuesday’s general election show Assembly Member Ron Kim winning re-election to continue representing District 40, which covers parts of Whitestone, Flushing, College Point, and Murray Hill.
The incumbent Democrat secured re-election in District 40, defeating Republican challenger Phillip Shaw Chau Wang by a narrow 9-point margin. Preliminary results show Kim with 12,582 votes, or 50.96%, leading Wang, who received 10,254 votes, or 41.53%—a difference of 2,328 votes.
