NEW YORK (WCBS 880) – With just days left in the race for New York City mayor, new polls in the Democratic primary found Eric Adams is leading the other candidates, with Maya Wiley and Kathryn Garcia close behind.
A poll released Friday by the New York Post and McLaughlin & Associates surveyed 1,000 likely Democratic voters from June 10 to 15.
In the poll, 21.3% of respondents ranked Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, as their first choice as the city debuts ranked-choice voting.
Wiley, a civil rights attorney and former counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio, was the top choice among 16.5% of respondents, while Garcia, the former city sanitation commissioner, was ranked first by 16.2% of respondents.
Andrew Yang, the entrepreneur and former presidential candidate, was the top choice for 9.6% of respondents. Comptroller Scott Stringer was first for 7%.
Pollster John McLaughlin told the Post that Adams may be in the lead over Wiley and Garcia but this is a “close three-way race and any one of the three can win.”
The margin of error for the Post poll was 3.1 percentage points.
Another poll released Thursday evening by PIX11, NewsNation and Emerson College found Adams had 23% of the vote, while Wiley had 18% and Garcia had 17%.
Up next was Yang, with 14% of the vote, and then Stringer, who had 9%.
The PIX11 poll surveyed 1,284 likely primary voters on Tuesday and Wednesday. It had a margin of error of 2.7 percentage points.
Spencer Kimball, director of Emerson College Polling, told PIX11 that ranked-choice voting “looks to be more beneficial for Wiley and Garcia than for Adams, which could change the eventual outcome.”
While New York City mayoral races are often unpredictable, this primary is especially hard to predict because it will be the first to use ranked-choice voting, with voters ranking up to five candidates.
Under the city's system, ranked choice procedures only kick in if no candidate gets more than 50% of the vote. With such a large field of legitimate contenders, that’s likely to happen this year in the Democratic primary.
Primary Day is next Tuesday, June 22. Early voting continues through Sunday, June 20. More information on voting can be found at vote.nyc.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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