Here are five takeaways from New York City’s second experience with ranked-choice voting, and how it helped Zohran Mamdani ...

The candidates have struck alliances and made cross-endorsements to take advantage of the ranked-choice voting system.

But with RCV, backup choices give you more power. If your first choice is eliminated early in the count, your vote moves to your second choice — and so on. If you only rank one person and they’re ...

One downside of the system is it makes it tough to forecast a winner before the vote count is complete. That means people ...

The winner of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary featuring progressive Zohran Mamdani and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo ...

In the final sprint leading up to Zohran Mamdani’s historic win on Tuesday, the New York City mayoral primary took on an unusually refreshing tone: one of cooperation.

Zohran Mamdani has won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. A new vote count Tuesday under the city’s ranked choice voting system confirmed the progressive legislator’s victory.

Under ranked choice voting, no mascot was chosen as the first pick by at least 50% of students, so students' second choice picks would then be considered. The bear received the lowest vote share ...

Ranked-choice voting has formed some unusual alliances between candidates. New Yorkers voting in the city's closely-watched Democratic mayoral primary election on June 24 will be able to rank ...

Without it, someone could win with a very small percentage of the vote. With ranked choice voting, there's no need for strategy. The basic principle is easy: Rank your favorite candidates, in order.

Unlike the primary, November's election does not use ranked-choice voting on the general ballot. Mamdani will likely face ...