Brad Lander won the Democratic primary in New York’s 10th District as NYC election results came in Tuesday night. At his watch party at Threes Brewing in Gowanus, Brooklyn, about a hundred people cheered as the race was called, chanting his name and embracing while they shed tears.
Lander, the former New York City comptroller, told after the win that voters “want to see a democratic party that’s fighting harder.” He also said, “We shouldn’t be taking corporate PAC money from Wall Street and crypto and AI and AIPAC. We’ve got to fight harder for working families and have people see us fighting for them, and we have to reset the U.S. relationship with Israel.”
Threes Brewing in Gowanus
The result gave Zohran Mamdani the mayor’s first victory of the evening, since he had endorsed Lander in the race. The district contest was one of several New York primary races being watched as polls closed in New York, with voters in line by 9 p.m. still allowed to vote.
Congressional primaries in New York City did not use ranked-choice voting, unlike local primaries and special elections under the system in place since June 2021. That meant the 10th District result turned on the direct count of ballots rather than a ranked-tabulation process.
Dan Goldman in New York’s 10th District
Dan Goldman, the incumbent congressman, put more than $2 million into his campaign, according to Federal Election Commission records. The loss leaves that spending behind a result that Lander claimed with a clear first-place finish, while the exact final vote total and margin were not given.
Micah Lasher was also leading Alex Bores by 5 percentage points with 64 percent of the votes in the Democratic congressional primary for Manhattan’s Upper West and Upper East Side. The night’s returns still left one basic comparison open: how far Lander’s win over Goldman stretched once all votes were counted.
