NYC mayoral primary: Democrat Eric Adams holds initial lead, Andrew Yang concedes
New York City voters hit the polls Tuesday for the mayoral primaries, but they won't know which Democrat won for several weeks.
A brand new ranked-choice voting system allows New Yorkers to pick up to five candidates in order of preference. With ranked choice, even if a voter's No. 1 pick doesn't have enough support to win, they are still able to boost their other preferred candidates. If a candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote, ranked choice doesn't come into play.
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As of early Wednesday, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is leading the 13 Democratic candidates. With 90 percent of in-person votes counted, Adams, a former police captain, is the No. 1 choice on 31 percent of the ballots. In second place with 22 percent is Maya Wiley, a civil rights lawyer, closely followed by former city sanitation chief Kathryn Garcia, who has 20 percent of the vote.
Andrew Yang, the entrepreneur and former Democratic presidential candidate, conceded on Tuesday night after coming in fourth. "I am a numbers guy," he told supporters. "And I am not going to be the next mayor of New York City based on the numbers that have come in tonight."
Due to term limits, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) is not running again. In the Republican primary, there were just two candidates, and Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels patrol group, defeated businessman Fernando Mateo.
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