Underdog chomps Qns. pol

IN A STUNNING upset, Queens City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley is losing to an underdog challenger.

Civic leader Bob Holden held a 133-vote lead Wednesday morning and declared an upset victory, though Crowley, a Democrat, has not conceded.

Holden, a registered Democrat, ran on the Republican line after losing to Crowley in the Democratic primary in the Middle Village and Maspeth district.

He hammered her on her support for closing the jail complex on Rikers Island and replacing it with local jails, and said she wasn’t aggressive enough in fighting a plan to turn a Maspeth hotel into a homeless shelter.

“She didn’t work hard as a councilperson,” Holden said.

The nasty faceoff featured a flyer comparing Holden to the curmudgeonly Grandpa character from “The Simpsons,” which Holden blamed for a bomb threat he received. In the closing days of the campaign, Holden circulated a video on social media that appeared to show Crowley pushing one of his volunteers.

Absentee and affidavit ballots still have to be counted, which could take at least a week. The two sides estimate there could be anywhere from 400 to 1,000 votes outstanding.

As of Wednesday morning, Holden had 10,221 votes to 10,088 for Crowley, a margin of less than 1%.

“I am confident once all of the numbers come in, we will have four more years to build on that success,” Crowley said.

A Holden victory would give Mayor de Blasio a harsh critic to deal with at City Hall.

De Blasio said he doesn’t “understand Democrats who run as Republicans.” “If you can run as a Republican in Donald Trump’s America, you just bought the whole label,” he said.