Buffalo’s four-term incumbent mayor lost the Democratic primary to a self-described democratic socialist earlier this year — but he launched a rare write-in challenge.
A self-described democratic socialist running for mayor of Buffalo as the Democratic Party nominee was trailing by a double-digit margin to write-in ballots in the vote count late Tuesday, partly due to a rare and quixotic write-in challenge from a four-term incumbent mayor
who unexpectedly lost the Democratic primary.ASSOCIATED PRESSDemocratic nominee India Walton is the only candidate for Buffalo mayor whose name was listed on the ballot, but she had just 41% of votes as of 11:39 p.m., with about 68% of the city’s results reported, according to the
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