Queens Councilman Donovan Richards appeared to be on a glidepath to victory in his bid to become Queens’ next borough president, handily leading Republican opponent Joann Ariola, early results showed.

Richards scored 67 percent of the ballots cast during early voting and on Election Day, while the chairwoman of the Queens GOP netted just 31 percent.

However, these results do not include any votes from the 1.1 million-plus absentee ballots mailed to voters across New York City, who opted to skip the polls and vote by mail during the coronavirus pandemic.

The city’s embattled Board of Elections was not immediately able to say how many absentee ballots were mailed out in the borough. And, under state law, the BOE cannot begin to tally the absentee ballots until after Election Day.

Officials say they plan to begin the count on Monday.

The 36-year-old politician, who represents Southeast Queens at City Hall, is the first black man to be elected to the prestigious post to complete the one year left in Melinda Katz’s term, which ends in January 2022.

Richards will have to run again for the post in 2021 if he decides he wants a full four-year term.

Katz left the position to become Queens District Attorney in 2019, leaving Katz’s top aide, Sharon Lee, to fill the spot in the interim.

That was initially supposed to last for just a few months, but the special election to fill Katz’s position set for March 24 was cancelled as the coronavirus pandemic began.

City and state officials opted to leave Lee in the position for the time being and seek a more permanent replacement through the June primaries and November general election.

Richards’ now-empty seat on the City Council will be filled through a special election that has not yet been scheduled.