After outraising him by hundreds of thousands of dollars, Jeffries defeated Barron in the June 26 primary election, 72% to 28%. A New York Daily News post-election editorial noted that Barron had been "repudiated" in all parts of the district, including among neighbors on Barron's own block in East New York, where he lost 57–50. The Daily News also analyzed Jeffries's donations in the last weeks of the campaign and found almost 50% came from out of state. He defeated Beavan and Republican Alan Bellone in the November general election with 71% of the vote, but not before declining to attend a pre-primary debate with third-party candidates, saying that the presence of the Green Party and Republican candidates at the debate would "confuse" voters.
