Voters in the largest city in America are choosing a Democratic nominee for mayor via ranked-choice voting. The crowded field is led by former governor Andrew Cuomo, who resigned from the state’s top office four years ago following sexual harassment allegations; state Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, who snagged key endorsements from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York); Comptroller Brad Lander, who made headlines when he was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at an immigration hearing last week; and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams.
This is a ranked-choice primary – only first-choice votes will be tabulated on election night. Final vote calculations will be released July 1 and updated weekly until all ballots are counted. Republican Curtis Sliwa is uncontested in his primary.
I can’t shake the horrible feeling that once the lowest-ranked candidates are eliminated, we’re going to see a centrist Voltron form around Cuomo like how the Democratic not-Bernie voters rallied around Biden in the 2020 primary.
IIRC many people also put Mamdani as their second choice.
We are going to see the NYT’s official endorsement of Curtis Sliwa very soon.
It could happen in the general, but in the primary the 3rd ranked candidate (Brad Lander) has cross-endorsed with Mamdani
edit: also Cuomo conceded the primary