City Council
In 2017,Brannan won the Democratic primary to replace Gentile in the 43rd district. Brannan won 39% of the vote in a five-way race,beating Khader El-Yateem,who garnered 31% of the vote, [19] by 682 votes. [20]
Brannan drew criticism from The Indypendent newspaper during the campaign for accepting certain campaign contributions from real estate interests. [21] Contributors to Brannan's campaign included $2,000 from Sal Raziano,a senior realtor of the real estate firm Casandra Properties and Anthony Constantinople (an amount under $1,000) of Constantinople &Vallone,a lobbying firm under investigation in 2017 for accusations of conflicts of interest and payroll discrepancies at its Sports &Arts program at a Lower East Side public school. [22] During the campaign,two of his opponent’s opponent’s employees and a third supporter of his opponent filed a complaint with the New York City Campaign Finance Board in which they accused Brannan of neglecting to disclose campaign expenses when he failed to alert election regulators that Gentile’s campaign for Brooklyn DA paid the $2,000 rent for Brannan’s campaign office;Brannan’s campaign called the claims baseless. [23]
In the general election,Brannan won with 51% of the vote to the Republican candidate,John Quaglione's 47%. Brannan won by a slightly smaller margin in the 2021 election.
In the 2024 general election for a redrawn 47th district,Brannan defeated his Republican colleague Ari Kagan by 58 to 41 percent after they were drawn into the same district. [24]
