A long-shot mayoral candidate will remain on the Big Apple ballot this November, despite dropping out last week, according to a ruling by a Manhattan judge.

Judge Jeffery H. Pearlman ruled Thursday against former City Hall hopeful, attorney Jim Walden, who had sued the city’s Board of Elections in a bid to wipe his name from the ballot after ending his campaign last week . 4

Walden filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, claiming that keeping his name on the ballot was akin to voter “disenfranchisement.”

The BOE denied his request, stating that the deadline to remove his name was months ago.

“Here, as the Board of Elections followed the law precisely as written, refusing to accept a declination of candidacy more than 3 months after the deadline for such paperwork, the Court finds that the

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