Eric Adams has emerged as the winner in the Democratic Primary for New York City’s mayoral election.<\/p>\n
The former police officer won the party’s nomination in the prestigious election by winning more than 50 percent of the nearly 938,000 votes.<\/p>\n
The city’s Board of Election determined the mayoral primary winner using ranked-choice voting tabulation of in-person votes and more than 125,000 absentee ballots after Adams failed to win more than 50 percent of first-choice votes on the initial tally. <\/p>\n
Adams, who is currently the Brooklyn Borough President, held off former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia with a 8,426-vote lead after the count of absentee ballots saw his substantial lead narrowing down to a single percentage point.<\/p>\n
Adams won 50.5 percent of the votes, while Garcia received 49.5 percent.<\/p>\n
Maya Wiley, a former counsel to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, finished third.<\/p>\n
Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang had already conceded defeat after he was placed a distant fourth.<\/p>\n
“While there are still some very small amounts of votes to be counted, the results are clear: An historic, diverse, five-borough coalition led by working-class New Yorkers has led us to victory in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City,” Adams said in a statement issued after the outcome.<\/p>\n
The odds are in favor of Adams in the general election against Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, as New York City is a traditional Democratic bastion.<\/p>\n
If he wins, Adams will become the second Black mayor in the history of the nation’s largest city. <\/p>\n