STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Loss of her biggest cheerleader and one of her closest confidents didn’t stop Kamillah Hanks in her re-election bid for the North Shore Council seat representing the 49th Council District.

After a very emotional campaign cycle for Hanks, she was reelected by besting two challengers, Republican John Shea, and Independent candidate Sarah Blas. As of 10:15 p.m. on Tuesday night, Hanks has accumulated 54.8% of the vote, compared to 34.7% for Shea and 10.3% for Blas, according to the NYCBOE.

“What you do as a representative is a little sacred,” said Hanks at her campaign office in West Brighton on Tuesday night.

“The fact that the opinion of the people of the 49th district was to send me back to City Hal, for four more years, I say ‘F--- Yeah! It ain’t pretty, it ain’t

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