Democrats, get ready to vote this weekend

Across the city, there are 20 contested Democratic races, meaning there are at least two names on the ballot.

The marquee race is Westchester County Executive George Latimer’s challenge to Rep. Jamaal Bowman in a House district covering parts of northern Bronx and southern Westchester.

“That’s going to be a race that symbolizes the direction of the party and if it’s going to continue to veer toward the left or come back to likely a more sustainable middle, that’s attractive to the broader electorate we see nationally,” Austin Shafran, a political consultant, said.

That race is one of three House primaries on the ballot, with Rep. Dan Goldman and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez facing opponents.

There’s one contested state Senate seat. Most of the action is occurring in 16 races for state Assembly.

In Manhattan, two longtime assemblymembers, Inez Dickens of Harlem and Danny O’Donnell on the Upper West Side, are retiring.

Meanwhile, there are three Assembly seats where the New York City Democratic Socialists of America want to knock off the incumbents

“You also have a struggle between two factions of [the] Democratic party,” Richard Fife, a political consultant, said. “The more mainstream Democrats and the more progressive DSA candidates and in many races, those two factions will be facing each other to decide which direction the state will go.”

Beyond congress and the state legislature, voters can cast ballots in judicial races and pick candidates for insider Democratic party positions.

“Do your homework, this is an age of information and there’s frankly no excuse for not being able to find out about any candidate that’s on the ballot, from district leaders to civil court judges, from the bottom all the way up to the top,” Shafran said. “These are the folks that are the ground game of the Democratic party.”

Meanwhile, Republicans are not completely shut out of primary voting this month. There is a contested race to be the GOP nominee in a Central Queens state Assembly seat held by Democrat Nily Rozic.

Meanwhile, voters on Staten Island have nothing on their ballots at all.

New Yorkers can start casting their ballots in early voting from Saturday, June 15 through Sunday, June 23.

Primary day is Tuesday, June 25.