Hakeem Jeffries
American politician (born 1970)
Illustration by Vugol.me, adapted from Official U.S. Congress portrait · Public domain
Races
- 2026 · U.S. House, NY-08 · General · Democratic · on the ballot · incumbent
- 2024 · U.S. House, NY-08 · General · Democratic · result not on file · incumbent · source
- 2022 · U.S. House, NY-08 · General · Democratic · won · 99,079 votes (71.6%) · incumbent · source
- 2020 · U.S. House, NY-08 · General · Democratic · won · 234,933 votes (84.8%) · incumbent · source
- 2018 · U.S. House, NY-08 · General · Democratic · won · 180,376 votes (94.1%) · source
Background
Hakeem Sekou Jeffries is an American politician and attorney serving since 2013 as the U.S. representative for New York's 8th congressional district. From 2007 to 2012, he represented the 57th district in the New York State Assembly.
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A member of the Democratic Party, Jeffries has served since 2023 as the leader of the House Democratic Caucus and House minority leader.
In the news
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Campaign finance
As of 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC
Website and social
Sources
- Official portrait — public-domain congressional image set (unitedstates project)
- Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-21 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakeem_Jeffries
- Website and social links — Wikidata (CC0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5640425
- Official social accounts — congress-legislators dataset (unitedstates project)
- Roster — FEC filing — https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H2NY10092/
- photo_action — http://jeffries.house.gov
- photo_headshot — http://jeffries.house.gov
- photo_full_body — https://jeffries.house.gov/about/
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