BUFFALO, N.Y. — ​Mayor Byron Brown launched an uphill battle write-in-campaign after his upset loss to India Walton in the June primary. On Wednesday morning, he says he's turned the tables.

When it comes to Buffalo’s mayoral race, there are plenty of write-in ballots, but as of right now, no one knows how many people actually wrote down Byron Brown.

Just like last year’s presidential election, voters may need to wait a couple of days before anything becomes official.

Mayor Brown was not the only candidate with a write-in campaign. Benjamin Carlisle and two others also joined the race as write-in candidates.

The official count of write-in votes is not expected to begin for another two weeks. This is also when they count absentee, emergency and provisional ballots to allow for time to arrive via mail.

Further adding to the wait, the Board of Elections says the under-vote, votes that have no filled bubble and just a write-in, adds another 2,277 votes.

With multiple write-in candidates, and the first-time an incumbent mayor in New York state will be trying to get re-reelected as a write-in, Democratic Chairman Jeremy Zellner says some unique challenges are ahead.

“We feel comfortable that the campaigns are comfortable with where we are with the process, but one ever faced anything of this scale, of this amount of counting ballots before, so it’s yet to be seen how long this is going to take, but we’re going to make sure they’re all counted,” Zellner said.

So again, while early numbers look positive for Mayor Brown, it’s still too early to say his write-in campaign successfully beat Walton.