- Shift toward the GOP: The Republican vote share in Flushing and Bayside increased by 22 percentage points between 2018 and 2022, signaling a rightward shift among voters.
- Republicans seeing success in Chinese-dominant areas: In the 2021 mayoral election, Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa won in many majority-Asian precincts in Queens, demonstrating a conservative trend among the city's Chinese American voters.