Buffalo Mayor Brown declares re-election, Walton refuses to concede
Reuters
Published Nov 02, 2021 10:55PM ET
Updated Nov 03, 2021 03:56PM ET
(Reuters) - Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, a Democrat who mounted a rare write-in campaign after losing his party's nomination to a socialist candidate in a shocking upset earlier this year, declared his re-election victory on Tuesday but his opponent India Walton refused to concede.
Brown declared victory, claiming a fifth four-year term, and thanked his supporters after local media reported Walton had won 41% of the vote while 59% of the votes were for "write-in."
The write-in votes, however, will still need to be checked to confirm that Brown's name has been indicated.
"At the very beginning, they said we couldn't win, it was impossible to win as a write-in. But you can't ever count a Buffalonian out," Brown said to applause from his supporters.
Walton, however, was not ready to concede.
"This is definitely not a concession speech," local TV station WIVB quoted Walton as saying, adding that she said it was still unclear who the "write-ins" were.
Asked by WIVB if he thought the number of write-in votes for Brown was greater than the number of votes for Walton, Brown answered: "That is correct."
Walton, a democratic socialist, community activist and nurse, made national headlines when she won the Democratic primary in June over Brown, who has served as the first African-American mayor of New York state's second-largest city since 2005.
But with no Republican on the ballot, Brown, 63, campaigned as a moderate alternative to the 39-year-old Walton, urging voters to write his name on their ballots.
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