NEW YORK (Diya TV) — Incumbent Thomas DiNapoli won the Democratic primary for New York State Comptroller on Tuesday, fending off challenges from two progressive candidates, including Indian American contender Raj Goyle, and securing the party’s nomination for a fifth full term.

Statewide, DiNapoli received 574,459 votes. Drew Warshaw placed second with 175,791, and Goyle finished third with 121,051. The Associated Press projected DiNapoli the winner.

DiNapoli was facing a primary challenge for the first time in 20 years. He will now face Republican nominee Joseph Hernandez in the November general election.

Goyle is a Democratic politician who lives in Lower Manhattan. He previously served in the Kansas House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011, representing the 87th District, and was the 2010 Democratic nominee for Kansas’s 4th Congressional District, losing to Republican Mike Pompeo in the general election. After that campaign, Goyle moved to New York City, joining the Rubin Foundation before co-founding Bodhala, a legal-technology and analytics company that was acquired by Onit, Inc. in September 2021. He later co-chaired the 5BORO Institute, a nonpartisan New York City policy organization.

Goyle announced his campaign for comptroller in September 2025, proposing to use advanced software to improve investment returns, invest pension funds in new affordable housing, and divest from fossil fuels and from Palantir.

His campaign received endorsements from Reps. Ro Khanna and Pramila Jayapal, legal scholar Zephyr Teachout, New York Communities for Change, and the Sunrise Movement NYC. Goyle was also a former co-chair of Phone Free New York, which advocated for the statewide classroom cell phone ban currently in effect.

Warshaw, the other challenger, is a former co-CEO of Enterprise Community Partners, a national affordable housing nonprofit, and a former chief of staff at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Issues in the primary included the state pension fund’s investment in Palantir and DiNapoli’s handling of unclaimed funds, with challengers arguing New York returns a lower proportion of such funds to their rightful owners than many other states.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not endorse in the state comptroller’s race.