Democratic Primary — Comptroller

Margin larger than exhausted ballots: The winner's final-round lead of 141,870 votes exceeds the 38,292 exhausted ballots — even if every exhausted voter had ranked further, the winner's margin would have held.

How to read this: Ranked Choice Voting eliminates the last-place candidate each round, transferring their ballots to each voter's next ranked choice still in the race. Ballots in contest = voters who ranked at least one candidate here. Active votes = ballots still assigned to a remaining candidate in a given round. Exhausted ballots = ballots where all ranked choices have been eliminated. Vote counts shown in each round reflect votes before that round's elimination. Ties broken alphabetically by candidate ID (NYC BOE uses random draw; ties are rare at scale).

When a candidate is eliminated, their supporters' ballots transfer to whoever they ranked next. This panel shows how each eliminated candidate's votes distributed — to the winner, to other remaining candidates, or exhausted (no further choices ranked). Cards are ordered by votes that went to the winner, highest first. Note: "Exhausted" means those voters had no more ranked candidates still in the race — their ballots stopped counting at that point.

NYC primary voters may rank up to 5 candidates in order of preference — but they are not required to. This chart shows how many candidates each voter chose to rank (1 = ranked only their top choice; 5 = used all available rankings). Voters who ranked only one candidate are more likely to exhaust — their ballot stops counting once that candidate is eliminated.