USA TODAY
The results released Tuesday included most of the more than 125,000 Democratic mail-in votes. Adams remained ahead of former Department of Sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia in the final ranked choice voting elimination round of the partial results but saw his advantage thin.
Adams held a 1%, or 8,426 votes, lead over Garcia in the Democratic primary. Although narrow, a Board of Elections official said earlier in the day fewer than 4,000 ballots had to cured, allowing voters to fix minor defects with their mail-in vote.
Maya Wiley, former counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio, remained third. More of her voters ranked Garcia over Adams after she appeared to be eliminated, but 139,459 ballots were exhausted by the final round, meaning those voters did not rank either of the final candidates.
Kathryn Garcia concedes in Democratic NYC mayoral race
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Kathryn Garcia concedes the Democratic NYC mayoral race, congratulates Eric Adams
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