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So, Mamdani won the first round of ranked choice voting for the democratic mayoral candidate in NYC. No one got more than 50% of the vote, so subsequent rounds of voting must be performed.

Why isn't the final result immediately known, instead of it seemingly needing weeks to go through the rounds. Aren't the ballots already cast and every voter's ranked choice votes already known?

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Aren't the ballots already cast and every voter's ranked choice votes already known?

Yes. But the math gets "interesting" when there is no one with 50+% of the first-ranked choices. We use it (MN) and it can take a few days to get to the eventual winner.

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Answering my own question - from https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-ranked-c...

The computerized process of tabulating votes takes little time, but it doesn�t start right away.

Polls close at 9 p.m. Tuesday. Within a few hours, preliminary results should give a picture of how the candidates are doing based on voters� first choices.

The ranked choice tabulations, however, won�t start until July 1 because the city needs to wait for the arrival of mail-in ballots.

The July 1 tabulation could potentially give a clear picture of who won, but the result won�t be official. Further rounds of ranked choice analysis will be done as additional absentee ballots come in until the board certifies the election July 15.

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