Nicole Malliotakis re-elected in New York's 11th district; Maggie Goodlander wins second term

Malliotakis wins New York's 11th district

Republican Nicole Malliotakis won re-election to the US House of Representatives in New York's 11th district, which covers Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn. The Associated Press projected her win in the early hours of Wednesday, 4 November, with 84% of votes counted: 91,539 votes (56.6%) for Malliotakis against 69,915 (43.2%) for Democrat Mike DeCillis. Iefimerida later reported 56.1% for her against 43.8% for DeCillis with 94% of ballots counted. NewsIT described this as her fourth consecutive term, following her first election to Congress in 2020, and said she had previously served in the New York State Assembly. Her share of the vote was 64% in 2024 and 62% in 2022, according to To Vima. NewsIT also reported that Democrats appeared to be winning control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, while the count was still incomplete.

Nicole Malliotakis56.6%

Mike DeCillis43.2%

Nicole Malliotakis

56.6 %

Mike DeCillis

43.2 %

Data from the article text

Goodlander holds New Hampshire's 2nd district

In New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district, Democrat Maggie Goodlander was re-elected over Republican Lily Tang Williams, according to an Associated Press estimate that Skai reported. The AP gave Goodlander 59.1% against 38.6% for her opponent with 79% of votes counted, and called the race at 10:05 p.m. US time on Tuesday, 3 November. Goodlander was first elected to Congress in 2024, and this result gives her a second term. Skai reported that she has served in the US Navy, at the Justice Department and in the White House. Her family comes from Avdella in Grevena, northern Greece, and settled in Nashua decades ago, the city where she was born and raised. In an April 2026 interview with Ethnikos Kyrix she spoke publicly about the pride she feels in her Greek heritage.

Maggie Goodlander59.1%

Lily Tang Williams38.6%

Maggie Goodlander

59.1 %

Lily Tang Williams

38.6 %

Data from the article text

Her record on Turkey and the F-35 program

Malliotakis has been openly critical of Turkey's place in NATO and of its bid to buy US fighter jets. In an interview with Kathimerini on 15 September 2026, she said Turkey is a NATO ally on paper, but under Erdogan it often acts as an opponent of other alliance members and countries in the region, and she expressed serious reservations about Ankara returning to the F-35 program. Her opposition dates to her early years in Congress, including an October 2021 bipartisan letter to the Biden administration asking it to reject Turkey's request for 40 new F-16 jets and 80 modernization kits. The signatories cited Ankara's acquisition of Russian S-400 systems and its earlier removal from the F-35 program. NewsIT reported that her congressional work also covers Greek-American relations, Cyprus and US policy in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Background and career

Malliotakis was born on 11 November 1980 in Manhattan and grew up on Staten Island. She is the daughter of a Cretan father, Giorgos Malliotakis, and a Cuban mother. She studied communications and public relations at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, graduating in 2001, and completed postgraduate studies in business administration at Wagner College in 2010. She worked in public relations at the utility Consolidated Edison before being elected to the New York State Assembly in 2010. In 2017 she ran as the Republican candidate for mayor of New York City against Bill de Blasio, winning about 28% to his 66%.