NYC 2025 Primary DEM Council Member District 25
Below is the ABIF from the "nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d25" election (NYC 2025 Primary DEM Council Member District 25)
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 | Shekar Krishnan |
| FPTP | Shekar Krishnan |
| Approval | Shekar Krishnan |
| STAR | Shekar Krishnan |
| Condorcet/Copeland | Shekar Krishnan |
IRV/RCV results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d25/IRV#IRV
- IRV/RCV Winner: Shekar Krishnan with 9,968 votes (67.2%) in final round
- Runner-up: Ricardo J. Pacheco with 4,762 votes (32.1%) in final round
- Exhausted ballots in final round: 0 (0.0%)
- Number of rounds: 1
- Ballots counted in final round: 14,838 (100.0%)
- Majority of ballots: 7,420 (50.0%)
- Total ballots: 14,838
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| Overview: Active ballots: 14,838 (100.0%) Exhausted ballots: 0 (0.0%) Counted ballots: 14,838 (100.0%) |
| IRV/RCV winner: Shekar Krishnan: 9,968 (67.2%)✅ →
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Ricardo J. Pacheco: 4,762 (32.1%)
(🛑eliminated)
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Candidate Write-in: 108 (0.7%)
(🛑eliminated)
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FPTP result
nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d25 FPTP results permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d25/FPTP#FPTP
- FPTP Winner: Shekar Krishnan with 9,968 first-place votes (67.2%)
- Runner-up: Ricardo J. Pacheco with 4,762 first-place votes (32.1%)
- Margin of victory: 5,206 votes (35.1 percentage points)
- First-place votes
- Shekar Krishnan: 9,968 votes (67.2 %)
- Ricardo J. Pacheco: 4,762 votes (32.1 %)
- Candidate Write-in: 108 votes (0.7 %)
- Total ballots: 14,838
Approval voting results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d25/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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=CANDWrite-in:[Candidate Write-in]
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- Approval Winner: Shekar Krishnan
- Approval Results:
- Shekar Krishnan (SK255625) — 9,988 approvals (67.31% of ballots) (✅ winner)
- Ricardo J. Pacheco (RJP258801) — 4,777 approvals (32.19% of ballots)
- Candidate Write-in (CANDWrite-in) — 35 approvals (0.24% of ballots)
- Total: 14,838 ballots (14,800 total approvals)
STAR results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d25/STAR#STAR
- STAR winner: Shekar Krishnan
- Finalists: Shekar Krishnan vs Ricardo J. Pacheco
- Runoff result:
- Shekar Krishnan: 9,988 votes (67.3%)
- Ricardo J. Pacheco: 4,777 votes (32.2%)
- No preference: 73 voters (0.5%)
- Total stars allocated: 34,373
- Total ballots: 14,838
- First round:
- ★#0: Shekar Krishnan received 21,603 stars (62.8%) from 11,635 voters (78.4%)
- ★#1: Ricardo J. Pacheco received 12,411 stars (36.1%) from 7,649 voters (51.6%)
- ★#2: Candidate Write-in received 359 stars (1.0%) from 251 voters (1.7%)
- Finalists:
- ★Shekar Krishnan (✅ winner) preferred by 9,988 of 14,838 voters
- ★Ricardo J. Pacheco preferred by 4,777 of 14,838 voters
- ★No preference between the finalists: 73
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-d25/pairwise#pairwise
- Winner: Shekar Krishnan
- Runner-up: Ricardo J. Pacheco (beats all other candidates except Shekar Krishnan)
- Smallest margin: Ricardo J. Pacheco over Candidate Write-in (7,634-203; margin: 7,431)
- Largest margin: Shekar Krishnan over Candidate Write-in (11,615-156; margin: 11,459)
- Pairwise ties: none
- Total ballots: 14,838
Win-loss-tie (Condorcet/Copeland) table
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d25/pairwise#wlt
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Shekar Krishnan
(2-0-0)
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Shekar Krishnan
2 victories ⇣ |
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Ricardo J. Pacheco
(1-1-0)
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Shekar Krishnan:
9,988(67.3%)
Ricardo J. Pacheco:
4,777(32.2%)
(No preference: 73; 0.5%)
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Ricardo J. Pacheco
⇽ 1 loss / 1 victory† ⇣ |
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Candidate Write-in
(0-2-0)
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Shekar Krishnan:
11,615(78.3%)
Candidate Write-in:
156(1.1%)
(No preference: 3,067; 20.7%)
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Ricardo J. Pacheco:
7,634(51.4%)
Candidate Write-in:
203(1.4%)
(No preference: 7,001; 47.2%)
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Pairwise tournament (Copeland ordered)
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d25/pairwise#dot
Voting methods: IRV • FPTP • approval • STAR • Pairwise • All methods
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