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City Council seat will require a second round of voting
Incumbent Christopher Marte came very close to securing his seat on the City Council last night — at one point at around 8:30p he was over the 50 percent mark — but with 98.96 of the scanners reported, he remains at 49.19 percent of the 23,108 who came to the polls. (There are 107,758 registered voters in our district, and 69,308 of them are Democrats.)
- Christopher Marte | 49.19 percent | 11,366 votes
- Elizabeth Lewinsohn | 24.32 percent | 5619 votes
- Jess Coleman | 16.08 percent | 3716 votes
- Eric Yu | 9.95 percent | 2300 votes
(There was no Republican primary; Helen Qiu is registered with the Board of Elections.)
But the rules of ranked choice voting dictate that a candidate needs to score more than 50 percent of the vote to win in the first round; if not the gears of the ranked choice system will start churning.
The next round for ranked choice voting will take place next Tuesday. That tally will include any mail ballots scanned before Election Day. The ranking of candidates may continue to change until all mail and affidavit ballot processing is completed. Reports will come through from the Board of Elections every week.
The City did a profile of the district which I only encountered recently, compiling stats on voters. Of that 107,000, 64 percent are Democrats, 9 percent are Republicans and 25 percent are unaffiliated.
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Clarifying question: Does this mean we will need to cast our vote(s) again next Tuesday, or is that essentially the next readout (meaning, it’s when the mail in/absentee ballots will be included)??
No, you do not vote again. In essence you already voted up to five times. In the next round, the candidate in last place will be eliminated, and the voters who put him/her first will then get their second place votes distributed among the remaining candidates. And so on.
This makes sense, thank you
It is the next readout of the rank choice process and the inclusion of mail in ballots.
We can only hope that the cross endorsement of Elizabeth and Jess can disrupt this continuing disaster.
I have never met a more obnoxious group of political advocates than the barely voting age supporters of Marte who parked in front of the Target in Tribeca last week and shouted down any one who dared to talk to either Elizabeth or Jess’ people. I have to give Lewinsohn credit – she never broke composure the entire time.
Marte has been terrible for downtown. Dirty, unsafe streets, anti-development (until he cut a day before election deal to save face) and worried about the broader political agenda vs. the neighborhoods he represents.
He has done nothing for Tribeca and has no plans to change that record.
Well said. We need to move on from this clown.
Many of us in the neighborhood support Chris Marte. He has worked tirelessly for the good of all who live in his district. Please try to be civil in your criticism.
The “deal” you are referring to was saving the Elisabeth Street Garden and getting 600 new affordable housing units. This was not overnight, Marte has been working on this for years. It’s a win win for downtown.
Why do you guys let yourselves be totally played so easily? Do you really think Eric Adams and Marte just HAPPENED to announce this “deal” the day before the election? The 600 units include a space zoned for a school, 300 apartments already planned at 100 Gold St. and another project that is subject to a completely new, years long rezoning process. I can’t imagine something more cynical and more clearly political from two of the most craven politicians in NYC. If you can’t see what this was, I’m worried for you…
Craven is the word. Thank you.
NYC is done. For some smart folks, our elections have been taken over by transplants. Be fair warn, if Mamdani is elected prepare for Diblasio 3.0 2.0 was Adams.
i agree with you. I just want to live in a ” Safe” New York.
The entire vote was only 23k ? How many registered democrats are there that could vote ?
Just days before the election I got an e-mail from Marte’s office in response to the petition regarding the counterfeit bazaar, I was puzzled that he acted like he has just noticed it! How many years has he been in office? Granted he might have bigger fish to fry than the quality of life issues in this crossroad of unconstrained illegal activities and residents who just want to take back their sidewalks and make the neighborhood livable. This inexplicable occupation of the few blocks below and above Canal and the streets around since Covid and the total hands off from the city has left the area in a perpetual state of chaos and filth asides from the daily harassment from the vendors pushing their goods.
So far not a single politician has formally acknowledged this issue.
I do worry the combination of Mamdani and Jess Coleman or Marte means this nightmare will outlive most of us.
Agreed. Have any of the candidates even mentioned this issue, and other quality-of-life issues around the city – littering, public urination, graffiti, etc.?
They have done NYPD sweeps through there regularly but they return quickly. Marte has been very supportive and worked with NYPD but again… This sits in the Mayor’s office for fault as he’s the one who had a hiring freeze on agencies responsible for Quality of Life issues like DSNY, Parks and NYPD. Now the Mayor is bragging he’s putting more cops on the streets because he’s running for office. Knowing where to push the blame is critical to understand and it sits with the Mayor!
I wonder how many voters were swayed to Marte as a reaction to the horrible barrage of nasty anti-Marte flyers. The fact that he is such a threat to the obviously very wealthy in the neighborhood
Proves that he is doing his job well for the rest of us. Shame on
those who sent them.
LOVE CHRIS MARTE! This is a good man.
Chis Marte has been a TIRELESS SUPPORTER of community gardens and community composting. He showed up at our protest events.
He is what a COUNCIL MEMBER and a leader should be.
You want cleaner streets? Pick up after yourselves! One man cannot be parent your children or clean up after you!
Truly disgusting what we saw from Marte’s people throughout the voting process. His people were shouting at everyone outside the Target, calling everyone who didn’t support them racist, and clearly bullying Jess’s and Elizabeth’s volunteers. I saw it everyday I walked by. Marte was there sometimes just standing there far away, doing nothing. I also saw a MAGA-like truck shouting Marte messages drive right in front of PS 89 and the BMCC voting location several times (pretty sure that is blatantly illegal). On Election Day, there were also a lot of older women working for Marte wearing a weird message around their neck smearing Coleman.
Somehow the narrative has been that there was a negative anti-Marte campaign, despite the fact that neither Lewinsohn, Jess nor Eric Yu paid for any of those ads. Marte, on the other hand, ran one of the nastiest operations I’ve ever seen in Lower Manhattan. It’s shameful what we let this guy get away with. And I’m sorry, but shame on local media and all the “clubs” and local leaders who don’t say anything about it. You’re all part of the problem.
Agree 100%. Anyone who enables that kind of behavior by staff is suspect.
And the irony of it all is that this was happening in front of a store that 50% of the merchandise is behind glass enclosures due to the rampant, unabated shoplifting problem.
The comments that “Marte can’t do anything if the Mayor reduces funding” is entirely misguided. The local precincts feel pressure from local leadership and will react when pushed. The problem is no one is doing the pushing for fear of alienating the progressive “get out of jail free” caucus.
His “get tough on crime” stance was to further enable the aggressive vendors in Battery Park by not banning them, but by ensuring they are licensed. Really? You think that will solve the issue? Take a look at the Brooklyn Bridge – it was finally cleaned up of illegal vendors by BANNING them.
No plan. No guts. I would love to see Liz or Jess run as an independent.
I’ve always found Chris Marte to be pleasant and accessible and his staff helpful. (Would not say the same about Carlina Rivera).
Baffled to see so many negative comments…
The fact that Chris Marte is the only one who is definitively fighting against the idiocy of building another tower at IPN – a place that does not lend itself to such a monstrosity – and will surely upset the quality of life for all in the area – is what gave him my vote!
Fighting against idiocy or tilting against windmills?
Your position on a fourth IPN tower — “idiocy” / “monstrosity” — may be popular in Tribeca, as Marte’s strong win suggests. But not all of us agree, and our ranks are growing. More and more folks feel that adding 500 families, give or take, to the neighborhood will mean more people patronizing local stores, more kids in neighborhood schools and at kid activities — in short, more life. And with less climate damage than the default policy of forcing those families to the ‘burbs or the South.
There are genuine issues on all sides of this matter. Let’s try to keep that in mind.
Not to mention that if we keep losing population to the South and other areas, we continue to lose power at the Federal level.
Komanoff,
Sure adding apartments means more household/families/kids.
It also means more Amazon, food delivery and Uber.
So more vehicles.
There are already many restaurants and cafes – basically at a saturation point and competing against each other.
Numerous empty storefront. Residents are not really shopping local, not really supporting retail.
Marte, is the only one for IPN. He has my Vote.
Walking towards the voting place on Greenwich I passed a man handing out Marte brochures. I said “I’m voting for him” before looking up — and when I did, it was Christopher himself handing out the flyers!