Nicole Malliotakis
Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican who has represented New York's 11th congressional district since 2021, seeks re-election in 2026 against Democrat Michael DeCillis, a retired police officer who also ran for the seat in 2018 and 2022.
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- Born
- November 11, 1980
- Birthplace
- Manhattan, New York City
- Education
- New Dorp High School (1998)
Seton Hall University (BA in communications, 2001)
Wagner College (MBA, 2010)
Biography & Campaign Analysis
Background
Nicole Malliotakis was born on November 11, 1980, in Manhattan, New York City, and moved to Staten Island at the age of two, growing up in Great Kills. Her father is from Greece, and her mother is from Cuba, which she left in 1959 following the rise of Fidel Castro.
Malliotakis graduated from New Dorp High School in 1998, where she was elected senior class president, received a B.A. in communications from Seton Hall University in 2001, and earned an MBA from Wagner College in 2010.
Career
Nicole Malliotakis worked as a community liaison for State Senator John Marchi and Governor George Pataki and later as public affairs manager at the Consolidated Edison Company of New York.
She won election to the New York State Assembly in 2010, defeating Democratic incumbent Janele Hyer-Spencer, and represented the 60th district from 2011 to 2012 and the 64th district from 2013 to 2021.
Her election made her the first Greek-American woman and the first Cuban-American woman elected to office in New York State. As the Republican nominee for mayor of New York City in 2017, she lost to incumbent Democrat Bill de Blasio, 66% to 28%.
Malliotakis won the 11th congressional district in 2020 by defeating incumbent Democrat Max Rose, 53% to 47%, beat Rose again in 2022, and defeated Democrat Andrea Morse in 2024. She joined the Committee on Ways and Means in January 2023, and in the 119th Congress she also serves on the Joint Economic Committee.
2026 race
New York's 11th congressional district includes all of Staten Island and the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton, Dyker Heights, Bath Beach, and Bensonhurst, and Nicole Malliotakis won re-election there in 2024 with 64.1% of the vote.
She is the Republican nominee for 2026 and also holds the Conservative Party line.
Her Democratic opponent is Michael DeCillis, a retired police officer and candidate for the district in 2018 and 2022, who won the Democratic primary with 61.4% of the vote over Allison Ziogas, an electrician and labor organizer who had withdrawn but remained on the ballot.
The general election takes place on November 3, 2026.