After Long and Controversial Vote Count, Eric Adams Declared Winner of NYC Dem Mayoral Primary
After a turbulent and lengthy vote count, Eric Adams was declared the winner of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary Tuesday evening and his opponents conceded the race to him Wednesday morning. The Associated…
After a turbulent and lengthy vote count, Eric Adams was declared the winner of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary Tuesday evening and his opponents conceded the race to him Wednesday morning.
The Associated Press called the race for Adams after mail-in ballots were added to the vote count Tuesday for the June 22 primary, which was New York’s first major race to use ranked-choice voting.
The latest tabulations showed Adams leading former city sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by 8,426 votes, a little over 1 percentage point.
“While it is only by a razor-thin margin, Eric Adams will be the winner of the Democratic primary,” Garcia said at the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in Central Park, according to the New York Daily News.
“I spoke to Eric earlier today and congratulated him.”
Maya Wiley, who finished third, also conceded the race to Adams Wednesday.
On June 29, the New York City Board of Elections released interim results that inadvertently included 135,000 old test ballots.
Corrected tallies on June 30 showed Adams leading Garcia by 14,755 votes, according to The AP, and Wiley trailing Garcia by just 347 votes in the ranked-choice analysis.