While preliminary returns will be released after the polls close Tuesday, a winner might not emerge for a week because of the city’s ranked choice voting system.

Mamdani surges in polls, Cuomo holds lead in others. Voters head to polls Tuesday. Follow Newsweek's live blog.

Andrew Cuomo is at the precipice of a remarkable political comeback, but a second-term Assembly member stands in his way. New York City Democrats head to the polls on June 24 to vote in citywide elections that will determine their party's nominee − and thus the favorite to win in November − for every office from mayor to county court judge.