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Mayoral Candidate Eric Adams during a press conference in NYC, USA – 4 Jun 2021
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Poughkeepsie, NY (77WABC)-NYC Democratic Mayoral Candidate Eric Adams is 7 percentage points ahead of challenger Kathryn Garcia in a new poll for this month’s Democratic Mayoral Primary for New York City.
The WNBC/Telemundo 47/POLITICO/Marist Poll, finds Adams leading the pack of hopefuls with (24%) and former sanitation commissioner Garcia with (17%). Coming in third is Maya Wiley (15%), and former Democratic Presidential Hopeful Andrew Yang (13%) follows.
Support for the other Democratic candidates is within single digits in this first round.
Adams is the first choice among all demographic groups, except for whites, likely Democratic primary
voters under the age of 45, those who identify as very liberal or liberal, and Jewish voters. Garcia is the
number-one choice for whites (28%), Jewish voters (26%), and those who identify as liberal (25%).
Younger voters (22%) and those who identify as very liberal (34%) select Wiley as their first-choice and Kathryn Garcia as the last candidates standing with 12 points separating Adams (56%) and Garcia (44%).
No candidate comes within eight percentage points of Adams in any of the rankings leading up to the final round.
Among the top three candidates – Adams, Garcia, and Wiley – likely Democratic primary voters in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens prefer Adams while those in Manhattan favor Garcia. Although likely Democratic primary voters in Staten Island were interviewed for the survey and included in citywide results, the proportional size of the borough in the survey sample is too small to report separately according to the Poll.
This year’s Mayoral primary is the first time the primary is being held in June and involves the introduction of ranked-choice voting. Early voting closes this Sunday at 4 pm with the primary on June 22nd.
Ranked-choice voting allows voters to rank up to five candidates on the ballot in order of preference. In turn, candidates with the lowest vote totals in multiple rounds will be eliminated and voters’ support will be given to their next-choice candidates until one candidate receives more than fifty percent of the vote.
The survey polled 876 likely Democratic voters in NYC between June 3, 2021, through June 9th, 2021. The margin of error for first-choice selection is +/-3.8 percentage points.
