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Terms and term limits (since 1834) Direct elections to the mayoralty of the unconsolidated City of New York began in 1834 for a term of one year, extended to two years after 1849. The 1897 Charter of the consolidated City stipulated that the mayor was to be elected for a single four-year term.
According to current law, the mayor is limited to two consecutive four-year terms in office but may run again after a four-year break. The limit on consecutive terms was changed from two to three on October 23, 2008, when the New York City Council voted 29–22 in favor of passing the term limit extension into law. [ 2]
The 2021 New York City mayoral election was held on November 2, 2021. Incumbent Mayor Bill de Blasio was term-limited and ineligible to run for re-election. On June 22, 2021, the primary elections for the Democratic and Republican primaries were held.
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Of the City Council’s 51 members, 47% can run for 3 terms, while 51% can run for 2 terms. In 2021, 39 of the 51 council members will be term-limited out of office (would be 40, but 1 incumbent is not running for re-election) – so that 75% of the city council will be newly elected.
May 31, 2021 · A group called US Term Limits is upset that Eric Adams, alone among the mayoral candidates, won’t take its pledge to protect New York City’s eight-year term-limit law.
Nov 2, 2021 · Eric Adams (Democratic Party) is the Mayor of New York. He assumed office on January 1, 2022. His current term ends on January 1, 2026. Adams (Democratic Party) ran for election for Mayor of New York. He won in the general election on November 2, 2021.
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May 19, 2021 · “McGuire, Garcia, Yang, Donovan and Wiley are to be commended for standing by the term limits approved by New York City residents,” said Philip Blumel, president of U.S. Term Limits, a national advocacy group with the goal of passing term limits on all elected officials, in a Wednesday statement.
