 He was re-elected with 90% of the vote in 2014 and the district has a PVI of D+43.Former Bronx Borough President and former director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs Adolfo Carrión, Jr., who was the Independence Party nominee for Mayor of New York City in 2013, considered challenging Serrano from the right in the Democratic primary, but ultimately declined to run.Democratic incumbent, Eliot Engel was challenged by Independent Candidate Derickson K. Lawrence.