When Brooklyn Borough President and former police captain Eric Adams won the Democratic New York Mayor’s primary this week, he became the city’s next likely mayor. And Adams spent a lot of money – over $ 10 million – to win this race, based on the June campaign fundraising reports.

Only one Democratic candidate, Ray McGuire, who self-funded much of his campaign, spent more money than Adams: $ 10.5 million. The next round of campaign finance reports are expected from mayoral candidates on July 15, which will cover the period from June 8 to July 11.

As of Tuesday, 99% of the estimated votes had been counted and the New York City Council of Elections plans to certify the primary vote by July 14.

Adams’ apparent victory came on Tuesday when he passed 50% of the vote in the city’s choice voting primary. Kathryn Garcia, the former commissioner of the New York City Department of Sanitation, came second in the overcrowded primary with 49.5% of the vote.

While Adams became the nominal favorite in the last few weeks of the mayor’s primary, he had to widely pass and spend Garcia to secure the slim victory.

Garcia spent $ 4.9 million during the campaign and raised $ 8.4 million, according to his latest campaign finance report in June. Adams raised $ 11.3 million. However, Garcia and Adams received most of their money from public funds. Garcia brought in $ 1.9 million in private funds and $ 6.5 million in public money. Adams raised $ 4.9 million in private donations and $ 6.5 million in public money.

New York City’s public contribution system allowed mayoral candidates who met spending and contribution limits to receive $ 8 for every $ 1 from a single donor up to the first $ 250 of that person. Garcia received the most public funding of any Democratic candidate.

On Tuesday evening, Adams reflected on his upbringing in New York City in a Tweeter.

“I grew up poor in Brooklyn and Queens. I wore a bulletproof vest to keep my neighbors safe. I have served my community as a state senator and president of the Brooklyn Borough. And I’m honored to be the Democratic candidate for mayor of the city I’ve always called home, ”Adams wrote.

If elected in November, Adams will be the city’s second black mayor.

Adams ran a centrist campaign and called himself “the future of the Democratic Party” just days after the vote ended in New York. Unlike many other Democratic candidates, Adams has opposed police funding and has often spoken of gun violence in the city.

Adams will likely be the next mayor of the nation’s most populous city, as registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 6-to-1 margin in New York City. He will face Republican Curtis Silwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels, in November.

Silwa won the Republican primary with over 70% of the vote. He only brought in $ 414,804 during the campaign – all from private funds – and spent the paltry sum of $ 301,639. Michael Bloomberg was New York’s last Republican mayor, but the former three-term mayor was a Democrat before changing his party’s registration in 2001 to run for the Republican primary for mayor. Bloomberg went on to be independent and competed in the Democratic presidential primary in 2020.

The last time the mayor of New York City ran and served as Republican mayor for his entire term was Rudy Giuliani from 1994 to 2001.

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