Why a winner won't be called tonight: The implementation of ranked-choice voting means that the one certainty on primary day is that New Yorkers will have to wait — for weeks — before most of the biggest races are decided. At some point tonight now that the polls have closed, the city's Board of Elections will release the first-choice numbers from early and in-person voting.
But that will only provide a narrow view of the results. Here's what the timeline for results looks like:. Current New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the next mayor "will have their hands full with the recovery" from the Covid pandemic when they succeed him in office. He said that "it just didn't make sense to me in the end" to endorse but whoever wins he plans to work with on a "seamless transition. The polls for New York City's primary election close in just about two hours at 9 p.
We expect to learn some results tonight. But we won't know the final outcome of races using the ranked-choice voting, including the highly contested person Democratic primary in the mayor's race. Under the new ranked-choice system, voters are being given the option to rank five candidates.
Once the ballots are in, the candidate with the lowest number of votes will be removed from the running and their voters' second choices reapportioned. Here are some of the major storylines to watch ahead of the polls closing:. Read more about today's election here.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez provided one final mini-splash today during a radio interview on Hot 97 when she revealed that candidate Scott Stringer was her second pick in the ranked-choice mayoral primary. Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Maya Wiley, her first choice, earlier this month after initially indicating she might sit out the race altogether. The congresswoman had harsh words, though, for candidate Eric Adams, who has been critical of the new-to-New York voting system and whose campaign surrogates described the late alliance between candidates Andrew Yang and Kathryn Garcia as a move to suppress the Black and Latino vote.
Adams has, on other occasions, offered clearer indications he would respect the outcome. Whatever that is, ultimately, New Yorkers will likely have to wait until after the July 4 holiday — at the earliest — to find out.
On the ground, in the final hours of this very long campaign, which includes races for comptroller, borough presidencies, district attorney jobs and dozens of open city council seats, there is at least one thing no candidate for any office would contest: the weather has been suboptimal. About 30, more than that requested absentee ballots, most of which have not yet been returned. For the first time, New York City will be using a ranked-choice voting system for some races.
This means it will likely take weeks to have full results of the election. Here's a quick breakdown of when we expect to see results:.
ET, June 23, Sort by Latest Oldest Dropdown arrow. Michael M. We know that. We know there's going to be twos and threes and fours — we know that. But there's something else we know. Here's what some of the leading candidates are saying: Eric Adams: Adams wrote on Twitter thanking everyone who "poured their hearts and souls into this race.
The contest for the Democratic mayoral nomination, which will almost certainly determine outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio's successor, features 13 candidates , but has in recent weeks appeared to come down to four favorites: Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a retired captain in the New York Police Department Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang Maya Wiley, a civil rights lawyer who served as counsel to de Blasio in his first term Former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia.
This passing of the baton is not like normal elections. This is in the middle of the pandemic and the recovery. This has to be a seamless transition so I decided it was best to stay back, keep my views to myself and I'm ready to work with whoever wins.
New York City is coming back strong. It amazing to see the energy out there and amount of economic activity but this next mayor will have their hands full with the recovery for sure. Expecting to learn who won the ranked-choice races on Tuesday night? The implementation of ranked-choice voting means that the one certainty on primary day is that New Yorkers will have to wait —for weeks — before most of the biggest races are decided.
At some point after the polls close on Tuesday night, the city's Board of Elections will release the first-choice numbers from early and in-person voting. Absentee ballots will not be counted until July 6 and the ranked-choice process doesn't kick off until June Adams and Yang have waged the most fierce, personal campaign-within-a-campaign of the primary.
Adams led the charge of criticism after Yang revealed, early in the running, that he spent some of the worst of the pandemic in a second home outside the city, in upstate Ulster County. That dynamic blew up over the weekend, when Yang and Garcia began to campaign together, with Yang encouraging his supporters to rank Garcia second. Surrogates for Adams charged that the alliance was forged out of a desire to keep a Black or Latino candidate out of City Hall. Though Adams has been less explicit himself in making the allegation, his campaign bundled remarks to that effect from prominent supporters and blasted them out to reporters.
Can progressives deliver for Maya Wiley? It took longer than she might have hoped, but leading progressive lawmakers and organizations ultimately coalesced around the civil rights lawyer in the final weeks of the campaign.
Wiley goes into primary day with endorsements from New York Reps. National liberal leaders like Massachusetts Sen. The question now: Did it all come together too late in the game? If a manual count is required, the Board will likely certify the results for all races except for District 9, where incumbent Councilmember Bill Perkins—who led the field of more than a dozen on primary night, when the BOE released first-round vote counts—now trails artist Kristin Richardson Jordan by votes.
Manual recounts take place when the leading candidate has a lead of 0. Jordan is currently ahead by 0. In Council District 25, which includes Elmhurst and Jackson Heights in Queens, businessman and former state Assembly staffer Yi Andy Chen also saw his initial first-round lead of just 98 votes vanish after seven rounds of counting.
Finally ready to say it: we did it District 25, we won! Marko Kepi, a supporter of former President Donald Trump, who was initially up by a paltry 33 votes after the first-round ballots were counted last month, may lose the race to David Carr, former chief of staff to Councilmember Steven Matteo. According to the most recent BOE figures, Carr earned nearly more votes in the subsequent four rounds of ranked-choice vote counting—a difference of almost three points.
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