The phrase "as mayoral primary" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be missing a determiner or additional context to clarify its meaning.
Example: "As the mayoral primary approaches, candidates are ramping up their campaigns."
Alternatives: "during the mayoral primary" or "in the mayoral primary".
They have set up a primary that all sides acknowledge could leave the party as divided as this year's mayoral primary did, with the winner facing an uphill battle against Mr. Pataki, a Republican.
As with the mayoral primary, her victory today is probably tantamount to victory in the fall.
It happens to be the same day as the New York City mayoral primary, which may make it a bit tougher for New York reporters to follow the Republican governor.
Detroit's Department of Elections estimates that voter turnout will be around 17 percent, about the same as the last mayoral primary in 2009.
In the Rochester Democratic mayoral primary, Mayor Thomas Richards is being challenged by City Council President Lovely Warren.
The impact of the Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to strike down part of the Voting Rights Act may be seen in New York City as early as this September in the mayoral primary.
Election workers on Friday began the monotonous job of double-checking the results from more than 5,000 lever voting machines used in New York City's mayoral primary, as William C. Thompson Jr. clung to hope that revised vote totals might make Bill de Blasio face him in a runoff.
But being elected the top dog at City Hall proved elusive, as Mr. Badillo failed to win four mayoral primary contests -- as a Democrat in 1969, '73 and '77, and as a Republican in 2001, when Michael R. Bloomberg trounced him.
A former president of the Greenwich Village Chamber of Commerce, he spent $400,000 of his own money running in the last Democratic mayoral primary and as an independent in the general election.
In the age of the blow-dried candidate, of politicians packaged to look and sound good on television, Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary endures as a kind of reassuring anachronism.
