Virginia Maloney and Assemblymember Harvey Epstein (D-Manhattan) officially won their respective bids for the Democratic nominations for City Council after the New York City Board of Elections released ranked-choice voting tabulations at noon on Tuesday.
Epstein, who won the nomination for Manhattan District 2, and Maloney, who won Manhattan District 4, both ran in open primaries in the East Side districts with no incumbent opposition. After RCV, Epstein beat out his closest competition, Sarah Batchu, by 13.4 points in the final round of RCV. Epstein had led Batchu by almost 20 points in the first round.
