"First-past-the-post" is the time-honored way elections have been held throughout most of the United States for much of our history. If a candidate wins a plurality in a field of competitors (i.e., if they come in first), they win—irrespective of the size of the plurality or the margin of victory versus the runner-up candidate. Mostly all of New York elections follow this practice, and voters and candidates generally take this fact in stride. Acceptance of this practice, however, was recently put to the test after Daniel Goldman narrowly won a Democratic Party primary for Congress in a multi-candidate field.