New York City mayoral primary election results aren’t expected to be finalized for another two weeks. But former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo appears to have been handed a defeat from democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, and Cuomo is responding.

A Cuomo campaign release on Tuesday said the vote count “does not represent the majority.”

Voting in the city’s ranked choice primary for city leadership, including the mayor’s position, showed that Mamdani took 43.51% of the votes in the race, while Cuomo got 36.42%.

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