Christopher Marte, the incumbent for our City Council seat — District 1 — has won the election after five rounds of voting in the ranked choice system. Once candidates Eric Yu and Jess Coleman were eliminated in rounds 3 and 5 respectively, the tally was 61.9 percent for Marte and 38.1 percent for challenger Elizabeth Lewinsohn. You can see the results for yourself here.
Ultimately Marte won with 12,862 votes after all the transfers. (There are 107,758 registered voters in our district, and 69,308 of them are Democrats.)
There was no Republican primary; Helen Qiu is registered with the Board of Elections to be on the ticket in September.
In other offices, Jumaane D. Williams won for public advocate; Mark D. Levine, our current borough president for comptroller; and Brad Hoylman-Sigal for Manhattan borough president in a close race — 54 to 46 percent over Keith Powers.
And of course for mayor: after three rounds, with Jessica Ramos, Zellnor Myrie, Selma K. Bartholomew, Brad Lander, Michael Blake, Scott M. Stringer, Adrienne E. Adams, Whitney R. Tilson and Paperboy Love Prince all eliminated in a batch:
I had totally forgotten about Eric Adams, whom Mamdani will face in the elections on November 4 along with Curtis Sliwa and Jim Walden, a lawyer running on an independent line.
Happy with Chris Marte!! God help us is Mamdani wins, DeBlasio on steroids ! Wake up New York, we want a safer City not go backwards! He is not a Democrat.