Eric Adams, a former police captain, has won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, the latest vote tallies show.

Adams, Brooklyn Borough President, won the race on Tuesday after appealing to the political center and pledging to strike the right balance between battling crime and ending racial injustice in policing.

Based on results from the latest tabulations, he was leading former city sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by 8,426 votes, or a little over 1 percentage point. Former city hall legal adviser Maya Wiley, who had progressive support including an endorsement from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was another closest vanquished rival.

The Associated Press called the race for Adams soon after the updated results were released.

The winner of the primary is likely to win the mayoral election proper in the Nov. 2 general election, considering the left-leaning politics of the city and an unheralded Republican opponent.

The winner will face Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa in the upcoming election to succeed outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio, a two-term Democrat.

Adams would be the city’s second Black mayor if elected. He triumphed over a large field in New York’s first major race to use ranked-choice voting, under which voters ranked up to five candidates for mayor in order of preference.

Candidates with too few votes to win were removed and ballots cast for them redistributed to the surviving contenders, based on the voter preference, until only two were left.

Following the release of the updated results, Adams said in a statement shared on Twitter, “While there are still some very small amounts of votes to be counted, the results are clear: an historic, diverse, five-borough coalition led by working-class New Yorkers has led us to victory in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York.”

He added, “I grew up poor in Brooklyn and Queens. I wore a bulletproof vest to keep my neighbors safe. I served my community as a state senator and Brooklyn borough president.”

He said he intended to "deliver on the promise of this great city for those who are struggling, who are underserved, and who are committed to a safe, fair, affordable future for all New Yorkers.”