The voting is done. The results, however, aren’t yet fully known.
Candidates counseled patience last week.
What You Need To Know
- On Primary Night, in-person, first-choice vote results were posted
- On Tuesday, ranked-choice voting results will be posted, though without absentee ballots
- On July 6, the Board of Elections will run ranked-choice voting rounds again, though with absentees
- The week of July 12, official, certified results can be expected
“We’re going to allow them to go through the process and count the ballots and count all the ranking,” Eric Adams said in his Primary Night remarks.
“Ranked-choice voting is about choice,” Maya Wiley said in hers.
“This is going to be about not only the ones, but also about the twos and threes,” Kathryn Garcia said in hers.
But when will we know who won the primaries not just for mayor but for close contests like comptroller and Queens borough president?
On Primary Night, the in-person, first-choice results were posted.
On Tuesday, we’ll learn the in-person results for voters’ second- through fifth-choices.
With the push of a button, the city’s Board of Elections will tabulate ranked-choice votes, though without more than 100,000 absentee ballots in the data set.
On July 6, ranked-choice voting rounds will again be run — with absentee ballots.
For most races, we should have relatively final results.
“The ballot-tabulation software that the BOE is using is able to produce results almost instantaneously," Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York told "Mornings on 1." "The delay is to make sure we can count and cure absentee ballots. And this is a good thing.”
The week of July 12, with all absentee ballots in — cured or otherwise — official election results are expected.
Also Monday, exit polling by Common Cause New York and Rank the Vote NYC found that in the primary for mayor, 83% of voters ranked at least two candidates and 42% ranked five candidates.
“We also were encouraged by a lot of first-time voters that we met," said Sandra Choi, civic participation manager of MinKwon Center for Community Action. "Some were high-school seniors and others who chose specifically to register in this important election. And they were all excited to rank their candidates for their first vote.”
On Monday, Board of Elections workers in all five boroughs began processing absentee ballots. As of Monday evening, more than 130,000 absentee ballots had been returned to their offices to be counted.