The New York city Board of Elections recently issued the official tally of election returns for Mayor and other city offices, from the November 3, 2009 election. See this link. It shows the vote for Mayor by Borough. Scroll down below totals given for each borough, to get to the city totals.

Apparently for the first time in a New York city election, the Board included a tally of each person who received write-in votes. New York state has a declared write-in declaration of candidacy procedure for president in the general election. However, it does not have a declared write-in candidacy procedure for any other office. Therefore, technically, every write-in (for office other than president) is valid, and every write-in ought to be tallied. But, that has not been done before.

The results show that the person who got the most write-ins for Mayor is Charles Montgomery Burns, the fictional character in the Homer Simpson series. He is Simpson’s boss. He was credited with 25 write-ins. Perhaps there was a small organized attempt to get write-ins for Mr. Burns, possibly as a satire on electing a wealthy person to be Mayor. See this story.