Eric still leads in new tally

The city’s bumbling Board of Elections said Wednesday that Eric Adams maintained his lead in the Big Apple’s Democratic mayoral primary — one day after officials threw the race into chaos with a botched count.

Preliminary results posted on the embattled election agency’s Web site showed Adams narrowly ahead of Kathryn Garcia, 358,521 votes (51.1 percent) to 343,766 (48.9 percent).

The percentages are identical to the ones reported Tuesday, when Garcia overtook Maya

Wiley to vault into second place pending the counting of absentee ballots.

But the vote spread between Adams (upper inset) and Garcia (lower inset) shrank to 14,755 from 15,908.

Adams’ campaign called the results a “simulation,” adding: “Our campaign was the first choice of voters on Election Day and is leading this race by a significant margin because we put together a five-borough working-class coalition of New Yorkers to make our city a safer, fairer, more affordable place.”

Garcia said: “While we remain confident in our path to victory, we are taking nothing for granted and encourage everyone to patiently wait for over 124,000 absentee ballots to be counted and included in the rankedchoice voting tabulation.”

The new numbers were released after the BOE on Tuesday posted — and later took down because they included 135,000 test votes — its tallies of 11 rounds of in-person and early voting in the city’s first ranked-choice election.

The final results are scheduled to be released next Tuesday.