Eleven candidates are vying to win the Democratic primary for mayor in New York City, the second time that ranked-choice voting will be used in the mayor’s race. Polls have shown former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani as the two front-runners. The incumbent, Eric Adams, will run as an independent in November.

Just hours after polls closed for New York City’s primary mayoral election, following a day of record-breaking heat, the former governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he had conceded the race to Zohran Mamdani,

New York City is using ranked choice voting in its Democratic mayoral primary election. Here's how it works: Rather than pick just one candidate, voters get to rank several in order of preference.