Democrat Justin Elicker defeated incumbent Toni Harp by 12,296 to 5,034 votes, or 69 to 28 percent, in Tuesday’s mayoral election, according to official results released by the Registrar of Voters office.
The office released the numbers (in the above chart) Wednesday evening, including absentee and Election Day Registration votes. (The latter were not included in the figures reported by the Independent on Election night based on results from the voting machines, which comprise the vast majority of ballots.)
Elicker previously defeated Mayor Harp in a Sept. 10 Democratic primary, 7,198 votes (58.29 percent) to mayor’s 5,150 (41.71 percent). Harp then ran Tuesday on the Working Families Party line. Elicker increased his vote total from the primary by more than 5,000; Harp collected 116 votes fewer on Tuesday than she did in the primary.