Talk:Characteristics of New York City mayoral elections

Sources and references

This is a relevant consideration, but should be viewed in relation to the history of this article, which was not originally intended to stand alone, but as a brief introductory guide to New York City mayoralty elections for those unfamiliar with the context assumed by participants and observers on all sides (e.g. Tammany Hall vs reform and fusion elements).

It's not fully documented but many examples of the patterns described can be found in the original article by looking up particular elections or articles about different parties and candidates.

While I wrote most of the text, I didn't move this sub-article myself (which I don't object to doing so in light of the great length of the original article), but some of the implicit references, and even some of the original footnotes, seem to have gotten lost by the wayside.

Certainly the more documentation the better, and I welcome any suggestions and refinements.

In fact what I'd really like, but don't feel competent to create myself, is a descriptive and narrative history of New York's municipal elections to match the bare numbers. Shakescene (talk) 07:05, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

This article appears to be incomplete

This article doesn't address a couple of rather important points, which might be obvious to people who actually live in NYC but are unknown to those of us in the rest of the world:

• How does one get on the ballot in the first place?
• Since there are more than two parties represented, how many ballots are cast? Are there runoff elections, is the ballot a single-transferable vote, or does the race go to first-past-the-post?

--Rob Kelk 17:02, 7 September 2015 (UTC)