The recent redistricting involving New York City Council seats has triggered some competitive June 27 primary races, and early voting in them begins Saturday.

Council seats are typically up for grabs every four years. But this election cycle is taking place two years after the 2021 elections, given the remapping of legislative districts last year.

It’s the second election cycle where the city Board of Elections will use rank-choice voting to determine a winner if the leading candidate gets less than 50% of the vote.

There are at least 10 competitive primary races across the city, including:

MANHATTAN:

District 9

Central Harlem, Democratic primary

In a surprise, Democratic socialist Councilwoman Kristin Richardson Jordan recently announced she would not seek re-election.

The three main contenders remaining are Yusef Salaam, who was exonerated in the infamous Central Park 5 rape case, and Assembly members Inez Dickens and Al Taylor.

Sources said it’s a showdown between Salaam, who has lefty activist backing and the support of Democratic Party leader Keith Wright, and Dickens, an uptown fixture who has deep ties to Harlem civic institutions and name identification.

Dickens also has the backing of local Rep. Adriano Espaillat and former Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel, as well as the United Federation of Teachers.

District 1:

Downtown, Democratic primary

Incumbent Chris Marte faces two major challengers to continue representing the Lower East Side, Chinatown and downtown Manhattan.

Susan Lee and Ursila Juny have qualified for public matching funds.

Trip Yang — who managed the 2013 campaign for the district’s last councilwoman, Margaret Chin, and is not involved in this race — told The Post that the race appears to be a two-person battle between Marte and Lee.

He said Marte has consolidated support from many of the district’s most important Democratic clubs, while Lee has been able to build substantial support in Chinatown by focusing her campaign on public safety.

BROOKLYN:

District  43

Southern Brooklyn

Democratic primary

Redistricting created a new seat that’s a majority Asian district.

Records show the seat covering Bensonhurst, New Utrecht and parts of Dyker Heights and Sunset Park is home to 54% Asian voters.

The three-way primary includes candidates Wai Yee Chan, Stanley Ng and Susan Zhuang.

Wai Yee, whose campaign site says she was born in Hong Kong and then immigrated to New York City, serves as the executive director of a nonprofit serving seniors.

She also sits on Mayor Eric Adams’ Asian Affairs Advisory Council for City Hall.

She has received endorsements from the powerful United Federation of Teachers union, plus notable Asian pols such as state Sens. John Liu and Iwen Chu. 

Zhuang is a longtime Democratic operative who worked as chief of staff to state Assemblyman William Colton (D-Bensonhurst).

She came under fire after bragging that she helped secure COVID-19 personal protective gear for New Yorkers, but The Post revealed the claim was bogus and that she wasn’t even living in New York and spent 2020 in Indiana.

Ng is a community activist.

Republican primary

Ying Tan, another community activist, faces off against Vito LaBella, a retired lieutenant with the NYPD who previously ran for the state Senate.

LaBella is also running on the Conservative Party line.

District 42:

East New York, Democratic primary

Incumbent Charles Barron, the iconoclastic ex-Black Panther, faces a stiff union-backed challenge from Chris Banks, the only one of three challengers who qualified for public funds.

Barron and his wife have represented the district in either City Hall or the statehouse since 2002.

Barron and Banks entered the closing days of the contest virtually tied in the money race: $87,000 to $79,000, respectively.  

District 41

Brownsville and parts of Weeksville and Bedford-Stuyvesant, Democratic primary

Councilwoman Darlene Mealy, serving her third term, faces a spirited primary from Isis McIntosh Green, who is backed by the Working Families Party, state Assembly members Latrice Walker and Brian Cunningham and several unions.

Jamilah Rose, a grant writer, is the third candidate. 

District 47

Bay Ridge, Coney Island and parts of Bath Beach, Republican primary

The GOP primary will determine who will face off against Democratic incumbent Justin Brannan, the current Finance Committee chairman, in the general election.

Brannan narrowly held onto his seat in 2021, and his reconfigured district could be up for grabs in the general election.  

Democrat-turned Republican Councilman Ari Kagan, a former journalist who grew up in Belarus under Soviet rule and even served in the Soviet army, faces challenges from two Republicans.

Anna Belfiore-Delfaus’s Twitter biography describes her as a “Wife. Mom. NYC public school teacher Founder of Thank you NYPD. Traditional Catholic,” but otherwise, she does not appear to have a campaign website set up.

The third candidate is Avery Pereira, whose LinkedIn page lists him as a special-education teacher within the city’s Department of Education.

Thanks to redistricting, the two current council members — Kagan and Brannan — could end up going head to-head in the general election in what could become a real donnybrook.

QUEENS:

District 19

Northeast Queens, including the neighborhoods of College Point, Whitestone and Bayside, Democratic primary

A Dem primary will determine who faces off against Republican Councilwoman Vicki Paladino.

Former Democrat city Councilman and state Sen. Tony Avella is favored to win the primary and have a general election rematch against Paladino.

Other candidates include Queens prosecutor and first generation Korean-American Christopher Bae and urban-affairs planner and neighborhood activist Paul Graziano.

THE BRONX:

District 13

East Bronx, including the neighborhoods of Throggs Neck, Pelham Bay, Morris Park, Westchester Square and City Island

Democratic primary

Dem incumbent Marjorie Velázquez faces Irene Estrada, chairwoman of Bronx Community Board 11, Van Nest neighborhood activist Bernadette Ferrara, and Army vet John Perez.

Velazquez is expected to prevail. She won the general election by 10 points in 2021.

Republican primary

The Bronx GOP believes it has a shot to take the seat in the more moderate law-and-order district.

The GOP primary has three candidates on the ballot. The Bronx GOP is backing Morris Park resident Kristy Marmorato, an X-ray technician and the sister of county Republican Chairman Michael Rendino.

Rivals include George Havranek, who is the president of the Spencer Estate Civic Association, and Hasime “Samatha” Zherka, a candidate for state Senate last year who is a construction business owner with deep ties to the area’s sizable Albanian community.