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Former NYPD police officer Eric Adams has won the New York City Mayoral Primary Tuesday according to the Associated Press
Adams held a slim lead of one percentage point over Kathryn Garcia Tuesday afternoon according to new count of votes which included tens of thousands of absentee ballots. Maya Wiley finished in third place. Wiley, who previously worked for current Mayor Bill de Blasio, was still in the race as of today but fell in the final stretch.
The news service called the race for Adams after the city Board of Elections (BoE) announced he led Garcia by more than 8,000 votes. There are still a few thousand ballots to count, but more than 110,000 ballots to counted Adams leads by a margin Garcia can’t overcome.