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The Brian Lehrer Show

Previewing the Results of Ranked Choice Voting

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Ahead of the full NYC mayoral primary results, Steven Romalewski of CUNY Mapping Service breaks down what first-choice vote data suggests about the ranked-choice outcome.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Lair Show on WNYC.

0:12.4

I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom filling in for Brian today.

0:18.3

Today at noon, the New York City Board of Elections will post the results of

0:23.7

the first ranked choice tabulation in the primary. Now, we've all assumed the outcome of this

0:29.5

election. Former Governor Andrew Cuomo has already conceded to Assembly Manzoro

0:34.0

Mamdani. But there's still a mathematically possible yet very unlikely chance

0:41.1

that Cuomo could win. That's according to Stephen Romuluski, the director of the CUNY

0:46.5

Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research. He and his team have created some tools I

0:51.9

use routinely in my own reporting, including a great website called

0:55.7

Redistricting and You, where you can get all kinds of information about the changes to your

1:00.2

city council, state legislative and congressional district lines. He's also behind the New York City

1:05.6

Election Atlas, which has great data on past elections and maps of turnout up and down by all the way down to

1:12.7

the election district level.

1:14.3

And he's been analyzing the results of the first round of ranked choice voting.

1:18.7

And he joins us now with his findings.

1:21.2

Stephen, welcome to WNYC.

1:22.8

Thanks so much.

1:23.5

Really glad to be here.

1:24.9

And listeners, we have time for a few calls.

1:27.0

Do you have questions

1:27.9

about the first round of ranked choice voting in this Democratic mayoral primary, or what could

1:33.2

we learn from these remaining results that will be released in just a few minutes? Are you wondering

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