Democratic New York City Council candidate and former Rep. Anthony Weiner failed on Tuesday in his bid to return to the political scene after a career plagued by scandal.

Weiner was running against a menagerie of opponents in New York’s 2nd City Council district Democratic primary, including state Assemblyman Harvey Epstein, Sarah Batchu, Andrea Gordillo, and Allie Ryan.

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With over 80% of the votes counted on Tuesday night, Weiner held only just over 10% of the share, with Epstein at nearly 40% and Batchu and Gordillo at just over 20%.

The former congressman entered politics in 1991 when he won a contested Democratic primary for the city’s 48th council seat, later serving until 1998 when he won election to Congress.

Weiner then found himself embroiled in scandal as he neared the middle of his seventh term in Congress.

In May 2011, Weiner posted a sexually explicit photograph of himself on his Twitter account, saying he meant to send it to a woman who was following him. Weiner was married at the time to former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

He denied posting the image before admitting to doing so in a press conference. Weiner also said he “exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years.”

Weiner would resign from Congress less than a month later and disappeared from the political spotlight until reappearing to run for mayor of New York City in 2013. Weiner would be among the front-runners until another sexting scandal tanked his campaign, ultimately leading to him finishing fifth in the race.

Then another major scandal hit. Weiner would be investigated by the FBI in 2016 for sexting a 15-year-old from North Carolina before he surrendered to the agency and pleaded guilty to a charge of transferring obscene material to a minor. Weiner was required to register as a sex offender and sentenced to 21 months in prison.

He would be released and sent to a halfway house in 2019. Weiner was freed several months later.

His 2025 candidacy was his first step back into electoral politics in years, and he pleaded with voters to give him another chance.

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“I’m not denying. I’m not pointing fingers. I’m not asking for a pardon,” Weiner said last month.

“I’ve served my time. I accepted responsibility. Now I’m moving forward.”