Martha Rowen
Martha Rowen (Republican Party, Conservative Party, Medical Freedom Party) ran for election to the New York City Council to represent District 33. She lost in the general election on November 7, 2023.
Rowen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Martha Rowen attended Beloit College. Her career experience includes working as a teacher.[1]
Elections
2023
See also: City elections in New York, New York (2023)
General election
General election for New York City Council District 33
Incumbent Lincoln Restler defeated Martha Rowen in the general election for New York City Council District 33 on November 7, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Lincoln Restler (D / Working Families Party) | 87.0 | 10,925 |
 | Martha Rowen (R / Conservative Party / Medical Freedom Party)  | 12.1 | 1,518 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.9 | 112 | ||
| Total votes: 12,555 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic Primary for New York City Council District 33
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Lincoln Restler in round 1 .
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Republican primary election
Republican Primary for New York City Council District 33
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Martha Rowen in round 1 .
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Conservative Party primary election
Conservative Primary for New York City Council District 33
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Martha Rowen in round 1 .
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Working Families Party primary election
Working Families Primary for New York City Council District 33
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Lincoln Restler in round 1 .
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Rowen in this election.
2022
See also: New York State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for New York State Senate District 26
Incumbent Andrew Gounardes defeated Brian Fox and Martha Rowen in the general election for New York State Senate District 26 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Andrew Gounardes (D / Working Families Party) | 79.1 | 69,976 |
 | Brian Fox (R / Conservative Party) | 20.1 | 17,767 | |
| Martha Rowen (Medical Freedom Party) | 0.8 | 665 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 78 | ||
| Total votes: 88,486 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for New York State Senate District 26
Incumbent Andrew Gounardes defeated David Yassky in the Democratic primary for New York State Senate District 26 on August 23, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Andrew Gounardes | 65.3 | 18,353 |
 | David Yassky | 34.2 | 9,614 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.4 | 124 | ||
| Total votes: 28,091 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Alana Sivin (D)
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Brian Fox advanced from the Republican primary for New York State Senate District 26.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Karim Elsammak (R)
Conservative Party primary election
The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. Brian Fox advanced from the Conservative Party primary for New York State Senate District 26.
Working Families Party primary election
The Working Families Party primary election was canceled. Incumbent Andrew Gounardes advanced from the Working Families Party primary for New York State Senate District 26.
Campaign themes
2023
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Martha Rowen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Rowen's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Martha Rowen is a wife, mother and grandmother, a retired NYC high school and college teacher, with an abiding interest in quality education and in the mental and physical health of our children and youth.
She and her husband are long-time residents of Brooklyn Heights, where they raised their daughter. Martha previously lived in Bay Ridge, where she has family roots.
Martha co-founded Citizens Defending Libraries, an advocacy group for protecting free speech, information access, and libraries, which counts among its victories saving the Red Hook, Pacific Street and Mid-Manhattan libraries from being sold to developers. She has also worked, as a co-founder of the pedestrian rights group Right of Way, to make our streets and parks safe for all users, and to improve public transportation.
In 2022, she ran as the Medical Freedom Party candidate for New York State Senate in District 26.
I am running for New York City Council to bring us back to a healthy civic life, rein in government overreach by limiting the powers of elected and unelected officials, and to institute reforms to keep such an attack on our rights from ever happening again.
- I will protect individual rights to bodily autonomy, and the rights of parents to decide what's best for their children in healthcare and education.
- I will work with the community to ensure policy affecting them is made together with residents, and businesses who will be affected.
- I support our police and will work closely with them and the community to protect neighborhoods and keep our subways safe.
Our once thriving neighborhoods are suffering the consequences of disastrously misguided policies that denied children the education and socialization they need, decimated small businesses, threw people out of work, exploded the homeless population, and denied New Yorkers our most basic rights and civil liberties.
I am running to bring us back to a healthy civic life, rein in government overreach by limiting the powers of elected and unelected officials, and to institute reforms to keep such an attack on our rights from ever happening again.
Medical Freedom Party
Brooklyn GOP
Brooklyn Conservative Party
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2022
Martha Rowen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Rowen's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Martha Rowen is a long-time resident of Brooklyn Heights and before that lived in Bay Ridge, where she has family roots.
A retired NYC high school teacher, who also taught in the CUNY system at Brooklyn, Hunter, and City Colleges, and in the NYU School of Professional Studies, Martha has an abiding interest in quality education and in the intellectual, mental and physical health of our children and youth.
Martha was a co-founder of Citizens Defending Libraries, an advocacy group for protecting free speech, information access and libraries, which counts among its victories saving the Red Hook, Pacific Street and Mid-Manhattan libraries from being sold to developers.
She has also worked, as a co-founder of Right of Way, a pedestrian rights group, and as a volunteer for Transportation Alternatives, to make our streets and parks safer for pedestrians and bicyclists, and to improve public transportation.
Martha is committed to protect and strengthen our rights to bodily sovereignty and self-determination in health. She is running to ensure these issues are discussed in the campaign, and as state senator, to guarantee that these inalienable rights will never be denied to New Yorkers.
- End the mandates that violate health freedom and have damaged our economy and society.
- Ensure our children have a healthy, safe, rich school environment
- End government by decree, and ensure that our constitutional rights are not infringed.
I am running to fight for New Yorkers' rights to medical freedom, bodily autonomy and informed consent;
to ensure a full range of true healthcare is available to all;
to advocate for a robust and nurturing education for our children;
to develop environmental policies that truly protect public health;
to end unconstitutional "government by decree" and guarantee our basic constitutional rights.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
See also
2023 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 11, 2023
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