On the night of the 15th, when the Democratic primary was over, New York City opened a new chapter in its history. The Chinese community stood behind their strongest candidates as two female candidates made an especially strong showing. Margaret Chin won the primary for City Council District 1 to become Chinatown's first Chinese City Council member, and Yen Chou pressed through to win the City Council District 20 primary. Chou could join Chin and make history in the City Council by becoming the first two Asian women elected to the position.

John Liu, who ran for the Comptroller, won 38 percent of the vote and will have a run-off election against his opponent David Yassky.  Kevin Kim also won the City Council District 19 primary and could become New York City's first Korean- American City Council member. 

According to the Board of Elections' results, Liu won 134,011 votes as the front runner of the Comptroller race. David Yassky won 107,503, with 30 percent of the votes.  Because Liu did not get the statutory 40 percent requisite votes, both Liu and Yassky will face each other in the run-off. Melinda Katz and David Weprin each got 20 percent and 11 percent respectively. In the District 1 race, the Chinese candidate received 4,541 votes and won 49 percent of the vote, defeating the incumbent Alan Gerson, who only won 1,021 votes.  In the District 20 Flushing race, Yen won the primary by 155 votes, defeating her opponents.   

In the District 10 Bayside race, Korean-American candidate Kevin Kim won the primary with 2,561 votes.  In District 38 Sunset Park area, current City Councilmember Sara González defeated her opponent, Robinson Iglesias, by 2,151 votes.  In the mayoral race, Bill Thompson, who defeated Tony Avella by a landslide, will challenge Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg.  In the Public Advocate race, Bill de Blasio defeated the more well-known Mark Green; however, since de Blasio did not win the statutory requisite 40 percent vote, he will enter into a run-off.  The Manhattan District Attorney race was won by Cyrus Vance.  New York's final election will take place on November 3rd.