Follow along on our election results map, as Zohran Mamdani has come out on top in the race for New York City mayor against Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa.
A record number of New Yorkers made their voices heard in the heated, historic election that pegged a socialist as the Democratic candidate against a three-term former governor running as an independent — and a Republican candidate who just wouldn’t call it quits.
More than 2 million New Yorkers voted — the most since the 1969 mayoral election that saw John Lindsay soar to City Hall, the city Board of Elections said at around 9 p.m., just before polls closed.
As of 6 p.m., 1.01 million voters had cast their ballots on Election Day, in addition to the 732,000 who voted early — a massive turnout of more than 1.7 million, more than any since the 1993 mayoral race.
Some 124,000 mail-in ballots also already came in, the city Board of Elections said.
The 1993 mayoral race saw 1.898 million votes, and turnout in such elections dwindled until 2001, when about 1.5 million New Yorkers cast their ballots, electing Mayor Mike Bloomberg, in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
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No other mayoral contest since has drawn that many votes — until Tuesday’s.
By comparison, only 1.1 million people total voted in the last election in 2021 between Mayor Eric Adams and Sliwa.
A massive turnout of independent and Republican voters was thought to spell good news for Cuomo, while a boon in younger New Yorkers casting ballots was a boost for Mamdani.
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Of the Big Apple’s 5.1 million registered voters as of February, 11% were Republicans, 65% were Democrats and the remaining 1.1 million were not aligned with any party.
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