Andrew Rasiej, who ran a valiant campaign for Public Advocate against incumbent Betsy Gotbaum with a technology-centric platform, ended the night with a little more than 5% of the vote. The final tally in the race for Public Advocate:

Betsy Gotbaum: 48.04%
Norman Siegel: 30.36%
Michael Brown: 9.09%
Andrew Rasiej: 5.17%
Jay Golub: 4.78%
Damon Cabbagestalk: 2.56%

It was a disappointing finish (did Michael Brown even participate in the debates?), but all is not lost, according to Andrew Rasiej:

"I don’t consider this to be anything other than a victory speech…We changed the whole notion of what the Public Advocate’s office could be…It doesn’t matter what the percentages are, we created a real debate about what the Public Advocate’s office could be and we raised a lot of important ideas…In case you didn’t hear, today the New York Parks Department announced that they will be giving free Wi-Fi in most of the city’s parks today...

I don’t believe that one politician can solve the problems of 8 million people, but I can certainly buy everyone here a drink…let’s drink to our future, let’s drink to our city’s future, and let’s drink to the future of idea(s)!”