Zohran Mamdani leads former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor, with the contest set to be decided by a ranked-choice count since neither candidate earned a majority of the vote.

"Decision Desk HQ projects no candidate will reach the 50% plus threshold in the first round, sending the New York City Democratic Mayoral primary to Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV)," said Scott Tranter, DDHQ's director of data science. "The City of New York will have their first release of the RCV votes next Tuesday, July 1st."

"Zohran Mamdani will go into the RCV process as the favorite," Tranter added. "In addition to his current vote lead, he has been endorsed by third place finisher Brad Lander and can expect to pick up a substantial portion of Lander’s supporters once their second choice votes are allocated in the RCV process."

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