An apparently loony, lefty political worker handing out campaign leaflets for a Democratic candidate in Brooklyn was arrested after allegedly punching and beating a 98-year-old man with a broomstick and metal chair in a crazed dispute over the reelection flyers, police said.

Tashara Abel had been stuffing reelection flyers into mailboxes in the lobby of a building at Maple Street and Rogers Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens when the nonagenarian walked in around 4 p.m. Thursday, cops said.

The two began arguing over the handouts for the candidate, Democratic New York State Committee Member Anthony Beckford, who’s in a June 23 primary run, cops and neighbors said. Beckford is running for re-election as a Democratic district leader.

Abel, 27, allegedly repeatedly punched the older man in the neck and struck him with a wooden broomstick and a metal chair about his head and body, according to a criminal complaint filed against her in Brooklyn Criminal Court. 

The victim was treated on the scene for minor head injuries and declined to go to the hospital.

Abel fled after the attack but was captured on video entering and leaving the building. Police issued a wanted poster for her, and Beckford identified her, authorities said in the complaint.

When police questioned Abel, she stated, “He pushed me first, and I pushed him back,” according to the complaint.

The victim’s wife, who asked not to be identified, told The Post her husband, who turns 99 next month, was “shaken up.”

He had placed a small stick in the door to keep it open while he went into the garage. When he returned, he collided with Abel as she came down the stairs, the wife said.

The activist allegedly picked up the broom and hit her husband twice in the leg, then struck him with the metal chair, the wife claimed. 

Abel claimed she didn’t hit the victim.

“I was doing a lit job for the candidates that is running back on the ballot for June 23,” she told The Post. “So his address is on the paper, and I went there. I rang, nobody answered. I saw a piece of stick at the door and it opened.”

Once inside, she ran into the nonagenarian, who asked what she was doing, she said.

“I’m just doing my jobs that I’m supposed to be doing,'” she said she told him.

But the victim, the building’s caretaker, demanded she leave, she said.

“That’s when he pushed me with his hands, and then, I said, ‘Do not push me,'” she recalled, and claimed he spit in her face as he spoke.

“So I said ‘Don’t do that,'” she recalled. “That’s when he went for the door and pushed the door, and everything behind the door fell — the chair, sticks, everything.”

The items were blocking the building’s entrance, she said.

“I kicked the chair out of the way,” she recalled. “I moved the stick out of the way. So this man is lying on me.”

Abel, who said she has two daughters, was charged with three counts of assault, burglary and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said. She was freed on supervised release.

She has no prior arrests, a police source said.

Beckford called the victim to apologize, the victim’s wife said.