When will NYC mayoral election results be announced? Here's how to track them live
With NYC Mayoral Election's first-choice votes tallied, no candidate secured a majority in the Democratic primary for mayor, resulting in ranked-choice voting.
With most of the first-choice votes now counted, CNN and CBS News are projecting that no candidate is likely to cross the 50% threshold needed to win the Democratic primary for mayor outright. That means the race is heading into ranked-choice voting.
Earlier, New Yorkers voted to choose the city’s next mayor with two wildly different Democratic candidates leading the race, former Governor Andrew Cuomo and first-term Assembly member Zohran Mamdani.
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When will the election results be announced?
Polls closed at almost 10 PM Tuesday, and now the tabulation of the ranked-choice begins on 1 July.
Now, the candidate with the fewest votes will be eliminated, and anyone who picked them as their top choice will have their vote shifted to their next preferred candidate still in the race. This process keeps going, round by round, until someone gets a majority and is declared the winner.
Cuomo is attempting to make a comeback after his resignation in 2021 following a series of sexual misconduct charges against him. “This is not a job for a novice,” he told supporters, per NBC News. “This is not a job for a person who never really had a job before. We need someone who knows what they are doing on day one, because your lives depend on it.”
On the other hand, Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist who has been receiving endorsements from Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has been pitching the cost of living in NYC as the focal point of his campaign. “This is the most expensive city in the United States of America and New Yorkers are tired of having to worry each and every hour of each and every day about whether they can afford to live here,” he said at a recent rally.
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Now, as the city waits to see who will come out on top, here are a few reliable ways to track the results in real time:
Where to follow NYC Mayoral Election results live:
The New York Times will provide live updates and “simulate ranked-choice results for the first and final rounds of voting”
PBS will show live results and an interactive map showing how different districts are voting.
The NYC Board of Elections will release unofficial, first-choice-only results shortly after polls close.
