Eleven candidates are vying to win the Democratic primary for mayor in New York City, the second time that ranked-choice voting will be used in the mayor’s race. Polls have shown former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani as the two front-runners. The incumbent, Eric Adams, will run as an independent in November.

Just hours after polls closed for New York City’s primary mayoral election, following a day of record-breaking heat, the former governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he had conceded the race to Zohran Mamdani,

Polls have closed in New York City’s contentious Democratic mayoral primary, but the ranked-choice voting system means it could still be a while before the race is called. Leading up to the election on Tuesday,