Polls are now closed in both Colorado, where voters are deciding whether to recall Democratic state Sens. John Morse (SD-11) and Angela Giron (SD-03), and in New York City, where voters are choosing nominees in several races, including two high-profile Democratic primaries. For mayor, the front-runner, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, is hoping to reach 40 percent and avoid a runoff with either former city Comptroller Bill Thompson and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. And for comptroller, ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer is attempting a comeback against Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.
We'll be liveblogging all of these races and more below. For a more in-depth preview of all of these contests and several others, click here.
Results: CO (AP) | NY (AP) | NY (WNYC)
8:10 PM PT: Bad news: A new batch of almost 2,400 votes just showed up in the Morse recall. He actually did worse with this batch and still trails 52-48. If the number of remaining ballots is accurate, Morse needs something like 64% of them to prevail. Hard to see that happening.
8:11 PM PT: With 89% reporting in NYC, de Blasio has inched up to 39.7%. Stringer's lead, meanwhile, is now almost 4%.
8:12 PM PT (Darth Jeff): Who's having a much better night than Weiner? How about Melinda Katz, who lost to him in Weiner's first Congressional race in 1998? Katz wins the Democratic nomination for Queens Borough President with 44 percent.
The race for Manhattan's Borough President won't be resolved tonight. With 87 percent reporting, Gale Brewer appears to have a runoff spot with 35 percent. A close race is underway for the other slot: Jessica Lappin leads Robert Jackson 25-22 percent. Meanwhile in the Bronx, incumbent Borough President Ruben Diaz easily secures renomination.
In Brooklyn, the writing is on the wall for incumbent District Attorney Charles Charles: He trails challenger Kenneth Thompson 55 to 45, with 90 percent in.
8:17 PM PT (Darth Jeff): Correction: No runoff for Borough Presidents. The AP and WYNC call victory in the Manhattan Borough President primary for Brewer.
8:18 PM PT: Man. 39.8% for de Blasio. We might not know the answer tonight. A similar situation in 2005 happened when Freddy Ferrer came within inches of 40%. Later-counted votes put him over the top.
8:21 PM PT (Darth Jeff): Toledo has jumped to 97.3 percent reporting, and it looks lite the general election is set in stone. Independent incumbent Bell leads with 26.87, fellow Independent Collins is second with 24.20. Dems Lopez and McNamara narrowly look like they'll be shut out, with 23.02 and 22.41 percent respectively.
8:22 PM PT: Terrible news:
BREAKING: @SenJohnMorse CONCEDING in #COrecall #COpolitics #COleg
— @EliStokols
8:24 PM PT (David Jarman): Holy crow, this is going to be close in New York City. With 93% reporting, Bill De Blasio is at exactly 40.0%. Bill Thompson in 2nd with 26.4%.
8:27 PM PT (David Jarman): Or more precisely, it's 39.96%... rounding errors don't count toward the required 40% +1.
Further down the ballot: Eliot Spitzer has conceded to Scott Stringer in the Comptroller primary.
8:29 PM PT (David Jarman): Whoa, quite the reversal in the Pueblo district, where Angela Giron had previously been holding her own. Now, "YES" on the recall is leading, by a pretty wide margin: 57-43.
8:33 PM PT (David Jarman): Bill de Blasio has crested the 40 mark... all the way up to 40.02% with 94% reporting. However, people who are following the precincts closely are noting that most of the remaining precincts are Hispanic areas, and BDB is averaging only 35% in areas with at least 50% Hispanics (courtesy of the NYT's fabulous results map), so he could wind up falling back down below 40.
8:33 PM PT (Darth Jeff): And that's it for Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes. The AP calls it for his opponent Thompson, 55-45 with almost all in.
8:36 PM PT (David Jarman): Ah, nice. Anthony Weiner's parting shot: giving the middle finger to the press corps on his way out. And as far as Bill De Blasio goes, he's back down below 40: at 39.97!!
8:41 PM PT (David Jarman): We've got formal calls in two New York-area primaries: the Eliot Spitzer comeback fails, as the AP calls the Comptroller primary for Scott Stringer. But the Thomas Suozzi comeback continues apace, as Newsday calls the Nassau Co. Exec race for him (he'll face Ed Mangano in the general, a rematch of the 2009 race that surprised everybody but presaged the Dems' bad year in 2010).
8:42 PM PT (Darth Jeff): Turns out money can't buy you everything. Despite spending $3 million of his own money, Adam Haber fell to Tom Suozzi, with Newsday calling the race for the former Nassau Executive.
8:42 PM PT (David Jarman): On the Colorado front, it looks like John Morse has been mathematically eliminated: he's down 469 votes with less than 400 to count. And in the Angela Giron race, with 16k votes counted, she's still trailing 57-43, though we don't know how many ballots are yet to be counted there.
8:51 PM PT (David Jarman): With 95% reporting in NYC, Bill De Blasio is currently at 40.1%. Don't take anything as definitive tonight, as absentee counting and then recounts will need to come into play. (In fact, recounts may well eat up much of the interim weeks until the runoff may or may not happen.)
9:00 PM PT: The liveblog continues here.