Candidates for City Elected Office

Candidates for Mayor, Public Advocate, Comptroller, District Attorney, Borough President, or City Council. This includes:

• Each person (i) who has declared their intention to seek a designation or nomination for election or re-election and has filed papers or petitions, or (ii) on whose behalf a certification of nomination, a designating petition, or an independent nominating petition has been filed, which has not been declined;
• Write-in candidates who have been entered into the nomination book at the Board of Elections; and
• Candidates who have been designated to fill a vacancy in a designation or nomination for one of these offices.

Candidates. Reports are due within twenty-five (25) days after the last day for filing designating petitions or independent nominating petitions pursuant to the election law.

Write-In Candidates. Reports are due within twenty-five (25) days after the primary.

Candidates Filing Vacancies. Reports are due within twenty (20) days after a certificate designating the person to fill the vacancy is filed with the Board of Elections, or within five (5) days before the election for which the certificate is filed, whichever is earlier.

Candidates Who Are Currently City Elected Officials. Contact COIB’s Annual Disclosure Unit at (212) 437-0739 or efiling@coib.nyc.gov to file electronically through the electronic filing application.

All Other Candidates. Complete and submit a PDF fillable annual disclosure report form:

1. Filers must use Adobe Acrobat to properly fill out the report. To download Adobe Acrobat, visit https://get.adobe.com/reader/.
2. Open the annual disclosure report form using Adobe Acrobat.
3. Complete all blank fields.
4. Date and sign the Certification (found on page 37) by typing your full name in the signature field.
5. Save the PDF.
6. Email your report to efiling@coib.nyc.gov

If you already filed a financial disclosure statement covering the reporting period with the New York State Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government (formerly, the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics), you may satisfy your filing obligations by emailing a copy of the complete disclosure statement (not the receipt) to efiling@coib.nyc.gov.

Any member of the public may request to view a candidate’s annual disclosure report.

Whenever a candidate’s annual disclosure report is publicly released, the Board will notify the filer and provide the identity of the person to whom the report was released.

Information regarding the candidate’s spouse, domestic partner, or unemancipated child(ren) will be withheld from public inspection unless the candidate shares the financial interest with them or the Board determines that such information involves an actual or potential conflict of interest on the part of the candidate.

If you have unintentionally omitted certain information in the report or included incorrect information, you must amend your report by contacting the Board at (212) 437-0739 or at efiling@coib.nyc.gov. Only the filer may amend the filer’s report.