By Rachel Hutchinson, Bryan Huang, and Deb Otis:
New York City’s third election cycle with ranked choice voting (RCV) had the second-highest turnout in city primary history. Most voters reported that they found RCV simple and wanted to keep or expand it. Now we have the cast vote record, released by the NYC Board of Elections July 24 – an anonymized digital record showing how each ballot ranked the candidates.
FairVote’s initial analysis of the results (before the cast vote record was available) can be found here. . . .
There were 20 contests with three or more candidates across 31 contested Democratic and Republican primary elections. In this blog, we will focus on the Democratic mayoral primary. The cast vote record shows that a supermajority of voters embraced ranking candidates, followed cues from candidates and campaigns, and ultimately had a greater impact on the election results.
