NYC 2025 Primary DEM Council Member District 19
Below is the ABIF from the "nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d19" election (NYC 2025 Primary DEM Council Member District 19)
Voting methods: IRV • FPTP • approval • STAR • Pairwise • All methods
Results
Below are the results of the election represented above using various election methods with abiftool/abiflib. The detected ballot type from the ABIF above is "ranked". Some methods may transform these ballots for analysis; see method notices for details. Resubmit the ABIF with "Transform ballots" turned off to minimize the transformations.
| Method | Winner |
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| IRV/RCV | Benjamin Chou |
| FPTP | Benjamin Chou |
| Approval | Benjamin Chou |
| STAR | Benjamin Chou |
| Condorcet/Copeland | Benjamin Chou |
IRV/RCV results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d19/IRV#IRV
- IRV/RCV Winner: Benjamin Chou with 7,723 votes (66.7%) in final round
- Runner-up: Alexander J. Caruso with 3,787 votes (32.7%) in final round
- Exhausted ballots in final round: 0 (0.0%)
- Number of rounds: 1
- Ballots counted in final round: 11,579 (100.0%)
- Majority of ballots: 5,790 (50.0%)
- Total ballots: 11,579
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| Overview: Active ballots: 11,579 (100.0%) Exhausted ballots: 0 (0.0%) Counted ballots: 11,579 (100.0%) |
| IRV/RCV winner: Benjamin Chou: 7,723 (66.7%)✅ →
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Alexander J. Caruso: 3,787 (32.7%)
(🛑eliminated)
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Candidate Write-in: 69 (0.6%)
(🛑eliminated)
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FPTP result
nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d19 FPTP results permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d19/FPTP#FPTP
- FPTP Winner: Benjamin Chou with 7,723 first-place votes (66.7%)
- Runner-up: Alexander J. Caruso with 3,787 first-place votes (32.7%)
- Margin of victory: 3,936 votes (34.0 percentage points)
- First-place votes
- Benjamin Chou: 7,723 votes (66.7 %)
- Alexander J. Caruso: 3,787 votes (32.7 %)
- Candidate Write-in: 69 votes (0.6 %)
- Total ballots: 11,579
Approval voting results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d19/approval#approval
See transformed ballots
Note: For Approval, these choose_many ballots are inferred from ranked ballots.
Conversion method: favorite_viable_half
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- Approval Winner: Benjamin Chou
- Approval Results:
- Benjamin Chou (BC255955) — 7,730 approvals (66.76% of ballots) (✅ winner)
- Alexander J. Caruso (AJC258721) — 3,797 approvals (32.79% of ballots)
- Candidate Write-in (CANDWrite-in) — 17 approvals (0.15% of ballots)
- Total: 11,579 ballots (11,544 total approvals)
STAR results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d19/STAR#STAR
- STAR winner: Benjamin Chou
- Finalists: Benjamin Chou vs Alexander J. Caruso
- Runoff result:
- Benjamin Chou: 7,730 votes (66.8%)
- Alexander J. Caruso: 3,797 votes (32.8%)
- No preference: 52 voters (0.4%)
- Total stars allocated: 27,793
- Total ballots: 11,579
- First round:
- ★#0: Benjamin Chou received 16,920 stars (60.9%) from 9,197 voters (79.4%)
- ★#1: Alexander J. Caruso received 10,689 stars (38.5%) from 6,902 voters (59.6%)
- ★#2: Candidate Write-in received 184 stars (0.7%) from 115 voters (1.0%)
- Finalists:
- ★Benjamin Chou (✅ winner) preferred by 7,730 of 11,579 voters
- ★Alexander J. Caruso preferred by 3,797 of 11,579 voters
- ★No preference between the finalists: 52
NOTE: Since ratings or stars are not present in the provided ballots, allocated stars are estimated using a Borda-like formula.
Condorcet/Copeland results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d19/pairwise#pairwise
- Winner: Benjamin Chou
- Runner-up: Alexander J. Caruso (beats all other candidates except Benjamin Chou)
- Smallest margin: Alexander J. Caruso over Candidate Write-in (6,892-96; margin: 6,796)
- Largest margin: Benjamin Chou over Candidate Write-in (9,190-88; margin: 9,102)
- Pairwise ties: none
- Total ballots: 11,579
Win-loss-tie (Condorcet/Copeland) table
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d19/pairwise#wlt
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Benjamin Chou
(2-0-0)
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Benjamin Chou
2 victories ⇣ |
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Alexander J. Caruso
(1-1-0)
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Benjamin Chou:
7,730(66.8%)
Alexander J. Caruso:
3,797(32.8%)
(No preference: 52; 0.4%)
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Alexander J. Caruso
⇽ 1 loss / 1 victory† ⇣ |
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Candidate Write-in
(0-2-0)
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Benjamin Chou:
9,190(79.4%)
Candidate Write-in:
88(0.8%)
(No preference: 2,301; 19.9%)
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Alexander J. Caruso:
6,892(59.5%)
Candidate Write-in:
96(0.8%)
(No preference: 4,591; 39.6%)
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Pairwise tournament (Copeland ordered)
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d19/pairwise#dot
Voting methods: IRV • FPTP • approval • STAR • Pairwise • All methods
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