Democratic Party candidate for mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, won the most votes in the history of internal elections among Democrats in the history of New York, according to a statement from the local election board.
Mamdani received a total of 565.639 votes after the full election results were published.
It is worth noting here that the Democratic Party in New York uses the so-called ranked choice voting system, in which voters rank candidates by numbers.
If in the first round no one receives more than 50 percent of the vote, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, and those ballots are then transferred to the person who was ranked second, and so on until one candidate has at least 50 percent support.
Mamdani won the Democratic primaries after three rounds, and the number of votes, when including ballots where he was ranked second or third, broke the record.
The previous record was set in 1989, when David Dinkins won 547.000 votes in the primaries.
Four years ago, Eric Adams, then the Democratic candidate and current mayor of New York, won only in the final round, having received 404.000 votes, with 50.000 of them being “transferred” through the ranked choice voting system.
The election for mayor of New York will be held in November this year. Mamdani will compete for the mayoral seat against Adams, who is running as an independent candidate, and against Curtis Sliwa, the Republican Party candidate.
Mamdani has a chance to become the first Muslim immigrant to serve as mayor of New York. He was born in Uganda and moved to the United States (U.S.) in 1998. He is currently a representative in the House of Representatives of the New York State Assembly, Klix.ba writes.
