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Zohran Mamdani Won in a Double-Digit Blowout, NYC Ballot Results Confirm (truthout.org)
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The last round of ranked-choice ballots showed the left-wing candidate winning 56 percent of the votes, to Cuomo’s 44.

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[–] 56 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

If there were no ranked choice, he still would have won in this case. He won the plurality of the votes on the first round (unexpectedly and a massive over performance of the polls)

Granted ranked choice may have made more people feel safer to consider him in the first place, but still worth noting here

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    He probably would have still won but you can’t make that determination directly

    Probably a lot of people voted for him as first because they could have another, more known option as option 2.

    Like in the National elections imagine that there was ranked choice. A third party would get a significant amount of votes, maybe even surpassing the democrats, but without this ranked choice, the inertia is just too high and it’s too risky to vote for them.

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