New York City Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Politics === [[File:Nancy_Pelosi_and_Eric_Adams_at_the_Speaker's_Balcony_(cropped).jpg|upright|thumb|[[Eric Adams]], the current [[Mayor of New York City]]]] The city's mayor is [[Eric Adams]], who was [[2021 New York City mayoral election|elected in 2021]] with 67% of the vote and assumed office on January 1, 2022.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/election/2021/results/new-york-city/mayor "New York City Mayor"], [[CNN]]. Accessed January 15, 2024.</ref> The Democratic Party holds the majority of public offices. As of November 2023, 67% of active registered voters in the city are Democrats and 10.2% are [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]].<ref>[https://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/enrollment/county/county_Nov23.xlsx NYSVoter Enrollment by County, Party Affiliation and Status Voters Registered as of November 01, 2023] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240116035832/https://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/enrollment/county/county_Nov23.xlsx |date=January 16, 2024 }}, [[New York State Board of Elections]], November 1, 2023. Accessed January 15, 2024.</ref> New York City has not been carried by a Republican presidential candidate since President [[Calvin Coolidge]] won all five boroughs in [[United States presidential election in New York, 1924|1924]]. A Republican candidate for statewide office has not won all five boroughs of the city since it was incorporated in 1898. In redistricting following the 2020 census, 14 of the 26 [[New York's congressional districts|congressional districts in the state of New York]] include portions of New York City.<ref>Boschma, Janie; Rigdon, Renée; Manley, Byron; and Cohen, Ethan. [https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/politics/us-redistricting/new-york-redistricting-map/ "Redistricting in New York"], [[CNN]], November 8, 2022. Accessed January 15, 2024.</ref> New York City is the most important geographical source of [[political fundraising]] in the United States. From 2016 to 2020, eight of the ten [[ZIP Code]]s where residents gave the greatest number of maximum allowable contribution of $2,800 to congressional candidates were located in New York City.<ref>Lincoln, Taylor. [https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/MaxedOut.pdf ''The Wells of the Congress''], [[Public Citizen]], January 18, 2022. Accessed January 13, 2024. "Eight of the 10 zip codes giving the most in maxed-out contributions are located in New York City and, specifically, in Manhattan."</ref> The city has a strong imbalance of payments with the national and state governments. It receives 83 cents in services for every $1 it sends to the federal government in [[Taxation in the United States|taxes]] (or annually sends $11.4 billion more than it receives back). City residents and businesses also sent an additional $4.1 billion in the 2009–2010 [[fiscal year]] to the state of New York than the city received in return.<ref>{{cite web |date = December 2011 |title = Downstate Pays More, Upstate Gets More: Does It Matter? |url = https://rockinst.org/blog/downstate-pays-upstate-gets-matter |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160501015209/http://www.rockinst.org/observations/wardr/2011-12-giving_getting.aspx |archive-date = May 1, 2016 |access-date = January 22, 2019 |publisher = The Nelson A. [[Rockefeller Institute of Government]]—The Public Policy Research Arm of the State University of New York }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page