All 51 seats on the City Council will be up for grabs in November, and in nearly every district, there are multiple candidates competing in Democratic primaries. Eight races are for open seats, and the themes of many of these contests mirror the battles playing out at the mayoral level, with affordability a key issue.

NYC primary election results in the races for mayor, City Council, comptroller, public advocate, district attorney and borough president.

Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive winner of yesterday’s New York City mayoral primary, might provide some of the answers—to a point. Mamdani, a 33-year-old, relatively unknown state assemblyman, ran an invigorated,