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��Brooklyn Borough President
Eric Adams surged ahead in
the Democratic primary for
mayor, while Councilwoman
Vanessa Gibson took a
commanding lead in the race
for Bronx Borough President
— although the outcome isn’t
certain yet.
In the old days, Adams and
Gibson would have won the
nomination of thier parties
with a pulrality — but not a majority
— of votes. But this is a
new era in New York, as voters
in the June 22 primary utilized
ranked-choice voting (RCV) in
the mayor’s race and other contests
for the first time — selecting
more than one candidate for
office, in order of their preference,
ensuring that the winner
must reach 50% of the vote.
The preliminary vote count
from the city’s Board of Elections
of all ballots cast in the
early voting period and on Primary
Day gave Adams a sizable
advantage — securing just under
a third of all votes (31.6%)
with 253,234 first-choice votes.
Civil rights attorney Maya
Wiley is a distant second with
177,722 (22.2%) first-choice
votes, followed closely in third
by former Sanitation Commissioner
Kathryn Garcia with
155,812 (19.5%).
Adams, however, came away
sounding confident that he won
the race, though he acknowledged
all the counting that remain
in the race.
“We know there’s going to be
2s and 3s and 4s, we know that.
But there’s something else we
know: That New York City said
our first choice is Eric Adams,”
Adams said during his campaign
party Tuesday night.
Meanwhile, Gibson received
39.2% of the Democratic primary
first-choice votes for borough
president, holding a margin
of 4,171 votes over runner-up
Fernando Cabrera, 34.2%, a fellow
member of the council.
Adams and Gibson both
failed to reach the required 50%
threshold necessary in rankedchoice
voting to claim victory.
Therefore, additional rounds of
voting as well as absentee ballots
will need to be tabulated in
the coming days.
The city’s Board of Elections
will now have to wade through
213,059 ballots to see the other
choices voters made in the various
city elections. Then there’s
the more than 80,000 absentee/
mailed ballots that New Yorkers
sent which have yet to be
counted at all.
In short, the city’s Board
of Elections has its work cut
out for them. With more than
300,000 votes to be counted or
recounted, it may take several
weeks before a definitive winner
of the mayor’s race and borough
president’s race is determined.
In the election for City Hall,
Garcia and Wiley now hope to
pick up tens of thousands of
lesser-choice votes from voters
of eliminated candidates
such as entrepreneur Andrew
Yang (93,291 votes) and City
Comptroller Scott Stringer.
In the Bronx, Fernando Cabrera
is holding out hope that
he can secure enough votes
from non-first place rankings,
as well as absentee ballots,
that he can overcome his election
night deficit and pull out
a victory.
The winner of the Democratic
primary for mayor and
borough president are very
likely to win their respective
general elections in November,
as both the Bronx, and
the city at-large, skew heavily
for the left-leaning party
— making it hard for any Republican
candidate to win in
either contest.
The BOE is not expected
to release the full results for
ranked-choice voting until
June 29, although those tallies
will not include absentee
ballots; absentees won’t be released
until July 6.
The BOE will then release
updated results each week until
winners have been declared.
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