Bill de Blasio, the city’s 6-foot-5-inch public advocate, sprinted to a towering lead Tuesday night in the Democratic race for mayor — but former Controller Bill Thompson was trying to hold on to force him into runoff.

With 93% of the precincts reporting, de Blasio was close to 40% of the vote — the threshold needed to win the nomination without a runoff, according to the returns by the city Board of Elections.
Thompson was a distant second, but with 26% of the vote, he was still in the hunt to force a three-week, one-on-one battle with de Blasio for the Democratic nomination. If a runoff were necessary, it would be held Oct. 1
Mayoral Candidates as of 1:30am
de Blasio, Bill – Dem 256,575 40%
Thompson, William – Dem 166,027 26%
Quinn, Christine – Dem 99,099 16%
Liu, John – Dem 44,789 7%
Weiner, Anthony – Dem 31,286 5%
Salgado, Erick – Dem 15,016 2%
City Controller Candidates
Stringer, Scott – Dem 284,831 52%
Spitzer, Eliot – Dem 260,760 48%
More results here
As you can see in this video via NYTrue.com, Weiner evaded his busty former sexting pal by busting through McDonald’s to get to his “victory” party. Leathers, who spent much of the day in hot pursuit of a personal confrontation with the ex-congressman, was less than thrilled :
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