Bagel Election 2025: And the winner is...

WNYC News | Jun 13, 2025

You voted on NYC's most iconic bagel, and now we have a winner: Egg bagel is New York City's most iconic bagel (at least of the candidates who ran). Congratulations, egg bagel!

Timothy Hunter and data scientist Kathryn Agnas of NYC Votes came on WNYC's Morning Edition to walk us through how they tabulated the results, why some ballots may have been invalidated, and how they got to the winner.

Votes in the ranked choice election were dispersed to find the winner

(WNYC News, NYC Votes, pyrcv.org/WNYC)

A special thank you to NYC Votes and to our bagel actors:

EGG: Jared Marcelle
SALT: Juliana Fonda
CINNAMON RAISIN: Zach Gottehrer-Cohen
SCOOPED: David Gebel
DONUT: Jason Saul

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