After ranked-choice votes were tallied, Eric Adams received 51.1 percent. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images Adams stays ahead, but Garcia surges to second in first tally of ranked-choice votesNEW YORK Eric Adams lost his lead in New York City's Democratic mayoral primaries after lower-ranked candidates were accounted.Kathryn Garcia is now just 2.2 points ahead of him, with over 120,000 absentee votes still to be counted.These ballots will decide the race with Adams leading by only 15,908 votes.After Tuesday's 11 rounds of ranked choice voting, Garcia surpassed Maya Wiley to take the second spot.This system allowed voters to choose up to five candidates according to their preference. After a candidate has been eliminated, the votes of those remaining candidates are distributed to them. After the final certification is issued by the board, the absentee ballots will also be considered.Garcia stated in a statement that "Once all votes have been counted, I am certain everyone will vote for the Democratic nominee." We are looking forward to the final results. It is worth waiting for democracy.Adams, the Brooklyn borough president has now received just over 51 per cent of the vote, a significant increase from the 31.7percent he received in the first-place votes last Tuesday.He released a statement Tuesday, however, in which he questioned the math of the Board of Elections. The ranked-choice tabulation's vote total was more than 100,000 votes higher than the official tally from election night.We asked the Board of Elections for explanations about this massive increase in voting and other irregularities, before commenting on the Ranked Choice Voting projection. He released a statement. Eric Adams, a five-borough working-class coalition of New Yorkers, is our next mayor. We are confident in his ability to make New York a safer, fairer, and more affordable city.Adams stated repeatedly that he would accept and support the results of the election.He said, "People ask you all the time, are you going to accept it?" Darn, I'm.Wiley finished second last week with 22.2%, but she was relegated to third in the rankings. Garcia was less than 1 point behind Wiley, so the leaderboard could change again once the paper ballots open. She did not concede, despite the narrow margins.She said that she had stated on election night that we must allow democracy to continue and count every vote, so that New Yorkers have faith and support our democracy and government. We must all support the results.Garcia was supported by her voters, who gave Adams enough votes to be in the lead.Andrew Yang took fourth place. He had campaigned alongside Garcia in the days preceding last week's primary and encouraged his supporters to rank Garcia second.This alliance could prove to be decisive.A Marist poll conducted by WNBC and POLITICO before the pact revealed that Adams voters were more likely to choose Yang second than Yang. Garcia and Wiley voters were also more likely to choose the respective candidates for first and second.However, Tuesday's results showed that Garcia was the main beneficiary of Yangs exclusion, which suggests that the duos alliance won over Yangs supporters.Yang's axing in the tenth round resulted in Adams and Garcia getting roughly 6 points each. Wiley received just 3 points.We may not win, but we can help Kathryn Garcia get elected, Yang campaign manager Chris Coffey stated about the candidates' thinking when he joined this accord.
