“The people chose one of the greatest come back stories,” Brown said, adding, “the people chose four more years of growth.”
Meanwhile, India Walton, the Democratic nominee and only candidate on the ballot, has received 41.1% of the votes tallied thus far. In order to win, she would need a significant amount of the write-in ballots to be for someone other than Brown.
Brown, a former head of the New York State Democratic Primary, was defeated by five percentage points in the June Democratic Primary by Walton, a political newcomer and Democratic Socialist. Brown did not campaign during the run-up to the primary and declined to debate Walton.
At the time, Walton seemed all but assured to be Buffalo’s next mayor, as well as the country’s first Socialist mayor of a major U.S. city in 60 years; Republicans did not nominate a candidate.
However, less than a week after his defeat, Brown announced he was staying in the raceas a write-in candidate.