The New York Daily News, which has long been hostile to the Independence Party of New York, has this story about the party’s showing in the New York city mayoral race of November 5, 2013. The Independence Party’s candidate, Adolfo Carrion, placed third in the race, but the story focuses on the fact that he only got eight-tenths of 1% of the total vote.
At this point no one knows how many votes were cast on the Working Families line for the Democratic Mayoral nominee, and no one knows how many votes were cast on the Conservative Party’s line for the Republican nominee. New York election officials do not release any vote totals until the results are complete and official. Therefore, all election returns on election night are from the media, and New York media never bother to get the votes cast on each party line when they do the election night report.
Therefore, it is difficult to completely analyze the Independence Party’s showing, because the election returns for some of the other ballot-qualified parties in the Mayoral race aren’t known yet. Thanks to Nancy Hanks for the link.
It appears to have been a pitifully small turnout overall, probably less than 25%! For DiBlasio to consider his election victory a mandate when fewer than 20% of New Yorkers went out of their way to vote for him is laughable. Well, it would be laughable if the turnout wasn’t so disappointing and pitiful.
There will be more votes found and counted in the next few weeks. So far there are 1,026,169 votes for the candidates who were on the ballot and an unknown number of write-ins. But when all the ballots have been counted, it will probably be 1,050,000.
By comparison, in November 2009, for Mayor, 1,154,505 votes were cast for the candidates on the ballot.
A very small bit of good news — I saw at least one city council race won by a “FUSION” candidate, because of the minor party votes. Haven’t gone through all of the races from last week yet, hopefully there are a few more.
http://enrweb.boenyc.us/CD15147.html