Gale Brewer Holds Commanding Early Lead In UWS City Council Race

Upper West Side NY

22 June, 2021

10:17 PM

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UPPER WEST SIDE, NY —Longtime Manhattan elected official Gale Brewer has a commanding early lead in the Democratic primary for the City Council District 6 Upper West Side seat, according to NY1. With 100 percent of the UWS precincts reporting their first-choice votes as of late Tuesday night, Brewer has 53.8 percent of the first-place votes, reports NY1. Behind her is Maria Danzilo, with 15.1 percent of first-choice votes, and Sara Lind with 13.6 percent, according to NY1. Tuesday night's results include only the first-choice, in-person votes cast in District 7. Final results will not be known until mid-July, when absentee ballots have been counted and voters' second through fifth choices have been factored into the ranked-choice tabulation. However, Brewer hit the magic 50 percent first-choice vote marker, which more or less guarantees her as the winner of the District 6 Democratic primary. Here's the complete distribution for first-choice votes reported by NY1 so far: Gale Brewer: 17,037Maria Danzilo: 4,777Sara Lind: 4,322Jeffrey Omura: 3,296David Gold: 1,458Zachary Weiner: 798 Before the election, Brewer pointed to her "unique set of experience and skills" to help the Upper West Side emerge from the coronavirus pandemic as a reason to vote for her. Here's Brewer's full interview with Patch about the UWS City Council position. Here is more information about all the Democratic candidates who competed in the City Council District 6 primary: Sara LindZack WeinerJeffrey OmuraDavid GoldMaria Danzilo