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Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams took the lead in the Democratic primary for New York City’s mayoral race on Tuesday, but it will take weeks for an official winner to be produced. At the moment, Maya Wiley is in second place, followed by Catherine Garcia.
For the first time, New Yorkers choose their mayor in a rank selection system, in which voters rank their top five candidates in order of preference. A large number of Democrats have chosen Adams as the front-runner, according to unofficial results released by the New York City Board of Elections.
Adams received 31.7% of the vote on Tuesday, with more than 253,000 voters choosing him as their top pick. But since no candidate gets more than 50% of the Democrats’ first-choice vote, counting will continue in the weekly rounds.
At the end of each round, the last-place candidate is eliminated and the votes of the voters who chose that candidate instead will be counted for their second choice. Officials say the deletion and redistribution process is expected to extend into July.
Since New York City tends to be democratic, the primary winner is highly preferred to take over the Gracie Mansion after the general election.
Eric Adams leads the first night
As the results came in on Tuesday night, the former police captain celebrated, basking in his predictable command.
“New York City said our first choice was Eric Adams,” he told a crowd of supporters.
In a race that began in the midst of a pandemic, and ended when the city saw a rise in gun violence, an ex-cop ran hard on a promise to reform police while fighting crime.
“You don’t know this,” he said. “I know this. I will keep my city safe.”
Maya Wiley hopes to move up from second place
Democratic mayoral candidate Maya Wiley, left, greets a voter during a campaign stop near a polling station in New York’s West Village neighborhood, Tuesday, June 22, 2021. Mary Altaffer/AP Hide caption
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Democratic mayoral candidate Maya Wiley, left, greets a voter during a campaign stop near a polling station in New York’s West Village borough, Tuesday, June 22, 2021.
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The next candidate closest to Adams is progressive Democrat Maya Wiley, who has offered voters an entirely different approach to public safety. It has pledged to reallocate $1 billion from the police department’s $6 billion budget.
“You should also be accountable to each and every one of us here, because that’s not a wrong choice,” she said.
She received 22% of the first-choice votes.
During the campaign, Wiley won the endorsement of progressive New York lawmakers, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamal Bowman.
Catherine Garcia finished the race and Andrew Yang admitted
Democratic mayoral candidate Catherine Garcia speaks with the media on New York’s Upper West Side, Tuesday, June 22, 2021. Richard Drew/AP Hide caption
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Democratic mayoral candidate Catherine Garcia speaks with the media on the Upper West Side of New York, Tuesday, June 22, 2021.
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Third-placed Catherine Garcia said the public and media shouldn’t count her campaign just yet.
Garcia received 19.5% of the vote Tuesday.
Since the final differences will pass the votes to the top runners while disqualifying the last-place winners, she believes the race is still wide open.
Referring to the ranked selection system, she said, “This will not only be about ones, but also about second and third. And to be honest, we won’t know more tonight than we do now.”
Former Democratic mayoral candidate Andrew Yang ended his campaign Tuesday night. Mark Lennihan / AP Hide Caption
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Former Democratic mayoral candidate Andrew Yang ended his campaign Tuesday night.
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With just 11.7% of the vote, former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang will not move to the next stage in his campaign.
Yang admitted after 11 p.m. Tuesday, saying he couldn’t win the nomination with the numbers he had.
“Our city was in crisis and we thought we could help,” he said in his speech.
How can numbers change
According to the Election Board, absentee votes and testimonies for the race have yet to be counted. As of Wednesday morning, the city had received nearly 87,000 Democratic absentee votes, out of more than 200,000 distributed.
These cards are still coming: The deadline for absentee votes to arrive is June 29, as long as they have a postmark no later than Election Day.
The ranked selection system will also change the numbers, as new rounds of vote counting will be held every Tuesday until a candidate crosses the 50% threshold.
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