A Republican won a Brooklyn Assembly election. Democrats may not let him take his seat.

This much isn’t in dispute: Lester Chang, a Republican who ran in a heavily Asian section of south central Brooklyn, won a race for New York State Assembly last month.

Whether he ever gets to represent these constituents in Albany will depend on his potential future Assembly colleagues, who are threatening to block him from taking office due to uncertainty over whether he meets the basic residency requirements.

The Democrat-led Assembly Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday in Albany that will focus on whether Chang — a Navy veteran who knocked off Peter Abbate Jr., a 36-year Democratic incumbent, by fewer than 600 votes last month — actually resided in Brooklyn for the 12 months leading up to Election Day, the minimum period he had to live there to qualify for the race.

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