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New York state Assembly member Zohran Mamdani held an early lead over former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday.
But New Yorkers will have to wait at least a week, if not more, to find out who wins the Democratic nomination because Mamdani appears to have fallen short of securing a majority in the first round of the ranked-choice voting system.
New York City uses a ranked-choice voting system, which allows voters to number their candidates in order of preference.
If no candidate earns more than 50% of the vote share in the initial round, the candidate with the fewest votes gets knocked out, and the votes that went to them get redistributed.
This system calls for multiple rounds of vote counting if no candidate reaches 50% in the initial tally.
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Edited by: Roshni Majumdar
