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Christopher Marte wins City Council seat after five rounds of voting
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:
- Zohran Kwame Mamdani | 56 percent
- Andrew M. Cuomo | 44 percent
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.
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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.
Why is Mamdani not a Democrat?
I don’t mean any disrespect to this writer or anyone, but disparaging the De Blasio mayoralty has become one of those rallying cries that lazy people lean on unendingly. The reality is like one of those “Now You Know” situations, wherein readers are informed, to their utter surprise, about diametrically incorrect notions that they’ve always acted on as truths. In Japanese these are known as “old-people’s legends”. I’d urge anyone who cares to examine his record, and particularly the promises he made as a candidate and fulfilled as an executive. I’m not saying he was the perfect mayor or a great one, but to hold the name De Blasio up as synonymous with failure is simply to ignore the actual record.
I’ve reexamined DeBlasio’s record as suggested above and discovered:
Crime surged
Public School performance plunged
Spending grew faster than inflation
Population declined
He spent taxpayer money on his 2020 presidential campaign and spent five years before agreeing to reimburse NYC at a discount.
People went to jail for bribing DeBlasio but he “miraculously” avoided indictment for receiving bribes.
These are all facts. Anybody trying to convince themselves he want an atrocious mayor must be clinging to “old people’s facts”.
And let’s not forget the $700 million DeBlasio gave to his wife to address mental health in the city and which is still unaccounted for.
I’m open to considering your criticisms, though some of it doesn’t comport with my understanding, and I question how much if the rest he is responsible for, considering that the latter portion of his term was during the pandemic. Did he cause people to move out of NYC then (or ever)? Don’t think so.
the pandemic was everywhere, it’s not like iit was isolated to NYC, so it’s not a valid argument to excuse his bad record
“De Blasio’s history of campaign finance scandals – City & State New York”
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2019/11/de-blasios-history-of-campaign-finance-scandals/177432/
Should be pointed out that Marte performed worse than any incumbent in the City Council, by a lot.
I think that’s because he had more credible, well-funded challengers than the others. Coleman and Lewinsohn had flyers everywhere, lots of mailers and even some TV I saw on streaming.
Considering:
– the Real Estate Board of NY (the city’s biggest developers)
– the NY Apartment Association (lobbying arm of the city’s landlords)
– People for Public Space (which actually wants to privatize public space for the benefit of the restaurant industry)
– Open NY and Abundant NY (astroturf group promoting unbridled high-rise development)
– Lewinsohn spent $600,000 of her own money and took in most of her donations – median donation being over $1,000 from mostly people outside the district (she couldn’t find the requisite 75 donors from within the district to qualify for the Matching Funds program…
…considering that all these entities spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in a vicious negative campaign to discredit him, he did remarkably well, excellently well, in fact.
No other councilmember faced all that money flowing in from the 1%ers. Ain’t that true?
The broad support he got from the residents WITHIN his district is a prime example of that hallowed concept = People Power.
That is what should be pointed out.
Broad support is 60% of a 30% turnout?
Apparently even in the district with the tallest building in the country, supporting new housing to meet demand is dismissed as ”unbridled high rise development”.
Maybe we should go back to crowding into tenements because of a housing shortage? Or maybe we should go back to being a small colonial outpost? I’m sure the NIMBYs of those times preferred stasis.
Hooray for Council Member Marte and his decisive victory!
Marte won with 12,862 votes (with RCV). This is 37% of 61,968 Active Registered Democrats — the highest turnout for all CD1 primaries going back to 2001, for which data is available at vote.nyc.
Marte’s votes, 11,408 in round 1 and 12,862 in the final round, also are the highest number of total votes for a CD1 primary winner, again going back to 2001.
(Under New York State Election Law § 5-400, voters are deemed inactive if they moved outside the state, died, were convicted of a felony, or personally requested removal.)