India Walton, the democratic socialist candidate for mayor of Buffalo, New York, conceded the race this afternoon to incumbent Mayor Byron Brown, who waged a write-in campaign to keep his job after losing to Walton in the Democratic primary. The race exposed schisms within the New York Democratic Party, but ultimately, Brown paired Democrats still loyal to him with Republicans to win reelection. Right now, write-ins account for 59 percent of the votes cast in the mayoral race, compared with 41 percent for Walton, and it’s likely that almost all of those write-ins are for Brown.
