New York City Democrats will choose their nominee for mayor in next week’s primary election. The city uses ranked choice voting, allowing voters to select up to five candidates in order of ...

Some critics say ranked-choice voting has made the city’s elections worse. But the generally friendly, policy-focused Democratic race for mayor is showing why more cities are adopting the format.

Winning New York City’s Democratic primary is almost always a ticket to City Hall in a city that’s about two-thirds registered Democrats. How Cuomo vs. Mamdani shows ranked choice voting ...

How opponents on the left are banding together to try to stop Andrew Cuomo in New York City The city's ranked choice voting system has become a key piece of the campaign for mayor, with Zohran ...

In November 2019, New York City voters adopted RCV for closed party primaries. The goal was to select the nominee who best unifies a party’s primary electorate. Democratic voters first used the system ...

Both victor Mamdani and loser Cuomo both received more votes than New York City Mayor Eric Adams did in that race. While the mayor ended ranked-choice tabulation with about 404,500 votes, Mamdani got ...

Unlike Chicago’s nonpartisan runoff system, New York uses ranked choice voting, allowing voters to list up to five candidates in order of preference. If no candidate gets a majority of first ...

Last week, the New York City Charter Review Commission announced that it was considering a “ top-two ” system for mayoral elections, whereby the two candidates receiving the most votes in an ...

Zohran Mamdani’s New York City Miracle A few months ago, the “no-name” state assemblyman seemed destined to lose to Andrew Cuomo. On election night, he redrew the city’s political maps.

Over the years, Mamdani has stated that he would also attempt to ditch the admissions test. "As a graduate of Bronx Science, I have personally witnessed just how segregated New York City public ...