The Working Families Party has been gathering strength in one particular legislative district of Brooklyn during this decade. The district, the 52nd Assembly district, includes Bay Ridge and Brooklyn Heights. In 2006, it polled 22.6% of the vote for Assembly in that district, almost triple what the Republican nominee polled. In 2004 it had also out-polled the Republicans, even though the WFP share of the vote had only been 11.5%. In 2002 there had been no Republican nominee in the race, and the WFP had polled 15.3%.

In each of these elections, the Working Families Party cross-endorsed the Democratic nominee, Assemblywoman Joan L. Millman. Generally when a minor party in New York is the kind of party that mostly doesn’t run its own nominees, and cross-endorses major party nominees, it gets between 3% and 5% of the vote in such races.