Here’s what to know about the primary election for mayor and a number of other posts, which will take place on the hottest day of the year so far.
Good morning. It’s a very hot Tuesday. We’ll get details on today’s Democratic primary.
At the end of a day like today, Primary Day in New York, it’s always about numbers.
There’s the number of votes the winner won by.
There’s the number of people who voted.
And today, there’s also a number that election-watchers usually don’t watch: the temperature.
With the city under an extreme heat warning until 8 tonight, it may hit 100. That is far warmer than the last time there was a primary for mayor, in 2021. That day, the high was a seasonable 78.
This time around, the heat could affect the turnout in a race that could turn on whether former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s union supporters and paid staff members head off Zohran Mamdani’s volunteers.
Here’s another number: 384,338.
That’s the number of voters who don’t have to think about standing in a sweaty line at a polling site. They’ve already cast their ballots, having taken advantage of early voting, which ended on Sunday. (Here is yet another number: 78,442. That is how many voters checked in at polling places on Sunday, by far the busiest of the nine days of early voting.)
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