Eric Adams on top in New York City mayoral primary – for now

Voters used a new ‘ranked-choice’ system to choose a winner, but it could be weeks before the count is finalized.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a former police captain who put public safety at the centre of his campaign for New York City mayor, was leading a field of 13 Democratic candidates in Tuesday’s primary election, though the outcome is unlikely to be known for weeks. With 90 percent of the in-person votes counted, Adams had been picked as the top choice on 31 percent of ballots. But with at least 87,000 absentee ballots yet to be processed, and a new ranked-choice voting system in place, final results are not expected until mid-July at the earliest. Speaking to jubilant supporters, Adams acknowledged that he had not won yet and that, under the new system, there were multiple rounds of ballot counting still to go.