Eric Adams, Kathryn Garcia lead mayoral race after initial RCV count, but thousands of absentee ballots remain to be counted

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Eric Adams’ substantial lead seems to have shrunk considerably Tuesday after the city’s Board of Elections (BOE) released unofficial, preliminary results based on ranked-choice voting tabulations.

Those results, which eliminated all the candidates through RCV from early voting and election day ballots, show that after 11 rounds, Adams has 51.1% of the vote (368,898 votes), with Kathryn Garcia in second with 48.9% of the vote (352,990 votes).