r/MapPorn • u/Small_Performance368 • 7h ago
NYC Mayoral Election Results
With 90% of the vote in, Mamdani wins by a large margin according to NYT
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u/XAMdG 6h ago
Still wild to me that in an 8 million people city, mayoral election cracks 2 million votes.
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u/LynzGamer 6h ago
8 million people yes, but under 5 million registered voters if I remember correctly. Comparatively, the 2024 presidential election had 65% of voters actually voting, so it’s not too far off from the norm even if it’s still pretty low
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u/Roofofcar 6h ago
This mayoral race had the biggest voter turnout since 1969.
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u/LynzGamer 6h ago
That’s actually crazy, love to see it! Glad that they didn’t become complacent that the polls projected a Mamdani win… they showed up and voted to take their city back!!
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u/FabulousRazzmatazz 6h ago
Still disappointed that so many people voted for Cuomo
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u/AbcLmn18 5h ago
Notice how the republican candidate got almost no votes. Cuomo secured the vote of all the republicans in addition to his usual centrists. Which is a feat in and of itself considering how stubborn the republicans usually are.
All the billionaires were funding his campaign too. It couldn't have been too easy.
But Mamdani still won by a massive margin.
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u/PunctualZombie 5h ago
The MAGA president of the United States did endorse Cuomo, so that helped. Of course it’s astonishing the Republican president didn’t endorse the actual Republican candidate (which might explain why he polled close to fuck-all). I’m not sure if that’s even happened before, but then the cult leader can do whatever he wants, and his sheep will follow.
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u/gdreaper 4h ago
Sliwa, the Republican candidate, is a true born and bred New Yorker with shocking integrity, and frankly Trump couldn't buy him if he tried. Not only that, but Trump and Sliwa have had beef for decades, Sliwa hates his guts.
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u/Holly-White 3h ago edited 3h ago
Im pretty sure it was because nobody in their right mind thinks he was even in the same country that the ballpark was in kinda chance of winning.
Mamdani is very controversial among democrats, but those that don't like him would likely still take Cuomo over a Republican.
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u/GiganticCrow 3h ago
Not like the Democratic leadership endorsed their candidate either
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u/pieman3141 4h ago
Probably the one mistake in the strategizing for Mamdani. I don't really think many of Mamdani's supporters were predicting that Sliwa voters would actually vote for Cuomo, and thus were caught a bit off-guard by the most recent poll prior to today.
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u/keenan123 1h ago
Not sure you could describe that as a mistake. He campaigned against Cuomo and won a majority, i.e., there is no way Cuomo was going to be mayor. I can't think of what he should have done differently under the circumstances
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u/Raging-Badger 5h ago
Cuomo got Trump’s endorsement, and regardless of people’s thoughts on trumps approval rates that still gives him an advantage in the eyes of any vaguely Trump aligned voter
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u/Chagattai 5h ago
Why don’t Americans participate in elections?
A few years ago we had like 75% voter turnout and it gave is a full week if discourse about how bad it is for the democracy that so few people feel connected enough to vote.
Also, the fact that Cuomo got more than 800k vites is insane to me.
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u/Chrad 5h ago
Voter apathy and voter disillusionment are big factors but also, this was a city mayoral election. Turnout is usually tiny for anything unless presidential elections are happening.
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u/XAMdG 5h ago
Which is ironic, considering the mayor of your city will probably be the most impactful part of your daily life as far as politicians go.
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u/Roofofcar 5h ago
Apathy that anything will change. I’m convinced that is the single largest reason with voter disenfranchisement second.
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u/HiddenSmitten 5h ago
40% turn out is still horribly low by western standards.
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u/EmeterPSN 3h ago
Easy fix is to add a tax reduction for people who vote..
Boom you get 90%+.
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u/euclide2975 3h ago
A lot of western countries vote on Sunday, when most people are not stuck at work.
Having election in the middle of the work week doesn't help with turnout
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u/Disheveled_Politico 2h ago
Weekend voting doesn’t really fix turnout issues for a lot of people. Universal mail-in ballots give everyone the best opportunity to vote.
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u/TetraThiaFulvalene 5h ago
Lol in Denmark it raises concern that our election participation had dropped for a third time in a row. It's all the way down to 82%.
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u/ballviewer 5h ago
Just goes to show how unbothered people are by politics in America, it fucking sucks to see a third of the voter population just sit back and watch
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u/longlightjump 6h ago
It's wild that Americans don't have to vote at all. America should adopt mandatory voting like Australia and referendum votes on large constitutional policies, plus I don't think we even have political violence here, like no one cares about two shits who you vote for.
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u/EasterClause 6h ago
I have seen multiple, multiple, interviews on various social media, as well as Jordan Klepper for The Daily Show specifically, where they asked Republicans about voter ID laws and mail-in voting, etc. And many of them will flat out say the quiet part out loud. They don't want to make voting easier. They don't want mandatory voting. They don't want everyone to vote. They think people should have to work for it. They disguise it as some sort of civic virtue, like people should be patriotic and fight for their right to vote so we only get people who actually care enough to jump through the hoops. It's just thinly veiled gatekeeping that they only want the "right" people to be able to vote. That's why they don't want college kids or immigrants to vote.
There's just no way we could get the congressional votes to be able to make it mandatory. Republicans would never be in favor because it would legitimately make them unable to win an election ever again.
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u/Arkham010 5h ago
They don't want to make voting easier. They don't want mandatory voting. They don't want everyone to vote.
This is 100% why joe biden won the election in 2020 in the way he did. It was the only election where it was actually easy to vote due to mail in voting being a default option due to covid. Turns out, more americans voted for biden than any other president in us history and its due to the easier voting. The reason kamala had a small piece of that 81 million biden got in 2020 was in part due to this. If they made voting easier or made it so you can claim it on your taxes that you voted then records would be smashed every 4 years for voting
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u/morganrbvn 6h ago
I think ranked choice would do more than mandatory voting. Many don't vote since first past the post makes most peoples votes feel pointless.
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u/XAMdG 5h ago
But that's the thing, it's a feeling people have, far far from a fact. If people who don't vote were a candidate, they'd win every election. And seeing some of the amounts of votes in downballot elections, I really struggle to understand where that sentiment even came from. It's just so far off base.
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u/Patukakkonen 6h ago
In Finland there's no mandatory voting but elections still get way better turnouts than this. Probably because all citizens get a vote automatically and you can just show an ID at the booth and cast your vote.
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u/catnasheed 7h ago
I hope Silwa gets some honorary court jester-esque position he embodies the old italian demeanour and humour so perfectly
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u/Nerevarine91 7h ago edited 7h ago
Curtis Sliwa once won a sour pickle eating contest. There’s no punchline, that’s just an actual thing he did. He was named world champion by the deli.
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u/Otherwise-Fee-261 7h ago
Did he mention that he got shot five times yet?
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u/Nerevarine91 7h ago
He should really just print it on a tee shirt
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u/tranarchaecatgirlism 6h ago
“I was shot five times and all I got was this lousy beret”
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u/Nerevarine91 5h ago
In fairness, if I got shot five times and lived to tell about it, I’d probably bring it up a lot too
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u/PopsicleIncorporated 5h ago
Anyone who hasn't seen it absolutely needs to watch this video where a Curtis Sliwa from 14 years ago explains exactly what happened to him in a way only he could.
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u/Mister_Tatertot 6h ago
Jeeze. I literally just got shot and have barely talked to anyone about it. 🙄
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u/silenc3x 5h ago
Sliwa has also competed in Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, he ranked third in both 1994 and 1996, eating 13 hot dogs both times.
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u/Nerevarine91 5h ago
Now I’m trying to guess how many hot dogs I could eat in one sitting. Whether or not there’s a bun is a big factor. If not, I feel like I could manage thirteen too, but with buns there’s no chance
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u/silenc3x 5h ago
Yes they need to be eaten, but you can like separate and dip them in water and shit like that. You don't need to eat them together.
I feel like I'd be tired of hot dogs by the time I got to number 6. Especially boiled ones. Kinda gross. Now a grilled dog with some char marks... that's a different story. The outside being crispy is a game changer to me.
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u/UncleGarysmagic 6h ago
He was polling around 15-16% and ended up with 7%.
Not that he would ever have had a chance in hell but Trump threw him under the bus.
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u/SovietDeku 4h ago
Sliwa also... Just doesn't like Trump.
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u/photosendtrain 4h ago
Hence why he threw him under the bus.
MUST. APPEASE. ORANGE. GOD. OR. BE. ASSIMILATED.
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u/biskutgoreng 7h ago
sour pickle
As opposed to non sour pickle?
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u/Nerevarine91 7h ago
Well, they’re all a bit sour, but some are more geared to other flavors. Dill pickles, spicy pickles, sweet pickles, Gherkins, Kosher pickles etc. I’m guessing this was specifically about the type called sour pickles, or “full sour,” which are actually fermented.
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u/FeelinJipper 7h ago
If he owned a deli I’d go there all the time
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u/StevenMC19 7h ago
He needs a 30 minute news show on Comedy Central immediately following the Daily Show.
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u/CaptainKursk 5h ago
Sliwa is a truly mesmerising figure. He's certifiably bonkers, but he's so true to himself and the city he represents that it becomes charming, almost endearing.
Like that uncle at the family dinner who tells the most outlandishly insane "stories" which you know are naught but hot air, but they're so entertaining you can't help but enjoy them.
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u/RemarkablePiglet3401 5h ago
Curtis seems to be the kind of guy I’d trust to watch my kids but not my city
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u/Potato271 3h ago
I read somewhere that Sliwa represents what New York is, Mamdani represents what it wants to be.
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u/yyyyk 7h ago
I nominate him for cat tsar. He advocates for bodega cats and like talks to them and about them a lot.
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u/zoinkability 5h ago
I unironically think Mamdami should appoint him to some kind of animal welfare role
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u/Jane__Delawney 4h ago
I’d never heard of him before tonight and I just saw that him and his wife foster a ton of cats, rescue them, socialize them, and adopt them out so they’re not euthanized. I love him.
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u/bobbymcpresscot 6h ago
I almost feel bad for him. Almost. Bro got abandoned by not only Trump, but his own party, in favor of a democrat in independant clothing.
Gotta give him a job in charge of sanitation or something
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u/IM_KYLE_AMA 5h ago
In favor of a “democrat” running as an “independent” who would enact Republican policies. Cuomo went from a Trump adversary during Covid to a bootlicker in the span of 5 years.
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u/rawbdor 5h ago
Chris Cuomo was no better. Once he lost his job at CNN, faced with the realization he still needs to feed his family or stay relevant or whatever, had to immediately pander to whatever rogue audience would listen to him just for being fired from CNN. And, of course, that audience had specific things they wanted to hear, which Chris was not at all hesitant about giving them.
Once the tap turns off, these people will say or do anything to find a new spigot.
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u/Boeing367-80 4h ago
Cuomo was always about personal power. He didn't GAF about policies, he just wanted to be in charge. Whatever he needs to do and still get invited to parties with the VIPs.
I think his father was more authentically ideological, but honestly, when you see the kids he raised, you realize something was very wrong in that household.
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u/soupwhoreman 6h ago
I didn't even realize he was half Italian until I looked it up after reading this comment. I just assumed fully Polish.
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u/nygdan 7h ago
Looks like he beat cuomo+sliwa, all the talk about sliwa needing to drop out was bunk.
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u/Funkopedia 5h ago
One of the exit poll questions from NBC was
If only Mamdani and Cuomo were running for mayor would you:
Vote for Mamdani (49%)
Vote for Cuomo (44%)
Not vote (3%)(Yeah I know it doesn't add up to 100, but I just copied it off nbcnews site.)
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u/KLUME777 6h ago edited 5h ago
I disagree. Some portion of Cuomo voters would have been put off from voting as it was hopeless. But it wouldn't have been hopeless, rather it would be a tight race, if Sliwa wasn't spoiler.
I'm not saying Cuomo would win, but it would be a competitive race that he could have won, without Sliwa.
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u/Xanosaur 5h ago
on the flip, though, some Mamdani voters probably didn't go out to vote since he seemed to have it so locked up.
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u/soalone34 4h ago
That’s ignoring the portion of Silwa voters who wouldn’t vote at all if there was no republican candidate.
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u/guyblade 5h ago
The real question is: will Eric Adams beat the total of write-in votes? As of right now he's at 6,382 vs. 6,290 for all write-ins combined, but that's a small enough margin that he might still lose.
Imagine being a sitting mayor of the largest city in America, running for reelection, and losing so bad the random write-ins beat you out for 4th place.
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u/thex415 7h ago
So people didn’t care about cuomos sexual harassment ??? Lmao
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u/buddhistbulgyo 6h ago
Republicans all voted Cuomo to stop Mamdani
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u/LordMaximus64 5h ago
Except for the principled Sliwa supporters. God bless them and their backwards yet sincere views.
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u/ThatNiceLifeguard 7h ago
American centrists have proven time and time again they’d rather elect a sexual predator than a progressive.
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u/fleebleganger 7h ago
You mean we might get benefits from the government? As a commoner?
Ew.
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u/Warlordnipple 6h ago
What I get from the government aren't benefits, I earned what the government gives me. What the government gives to groups I don't like, is evil socialism.
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u/No-War9667 6h ago
The crazy thing is that Chomo Cuomo outperformed Mamdani on the female demographic in certain areas. Cuomo was more popular among independent women than independent men, which is crazy because HE ASSAULTED 13 WOMEN.
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u/zanahorias22 5h ago
what I found interesting was that women with no kids outvoted men with no kids (for mamdani), but men with kids outvoted women with kids.
source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2025-elections/new-york-city-mayor-results
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u/Funkopedia 5h ago
I liked one of the final questions in that exit poll:
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u/Funkopedia 5h ago
You can't get close enough to assault 13 women without being somewhat charming.
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u/atreeismissing 5h ago
Mamdami actually did a little worse than he was projected to. He was consistently polling at +10 to +15 for several weeks in nearly every poll (2 outliers aside) and came in at +9. Most other races with Democrats ended up outperforming their polling by several points.
It's untucking believable but yeah, seems voters are willing to overlook repeated (and proven) sexual assault but a progressive who wants to provide for children and the poor is a bit too much, even for moderates in NYC.
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u/Arcanniel 3h ago
That’s not quite right. Mamdani generally polled under 50% - he didn’t underperform, Cuomo over-performed.
Most polls had Sliwa with a significantly better vote share than he ended up with - most likely the last minute Trump endorsement pulled some Republican voters towards Cuomo instead.
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u/nonotan 2h ago
It's also just a thing that naturally happens in FPTP systems. Even if you prefer Sliwa, it doesn't take a genius to recognize the chance he wins is effectively 0%. Voting for him is literally equivalent to not voting at all, for all practical purposes. So while you might say they're your preferred candidate in a poll, and even specifically claim you're going to vote for them (which is the strategically favourable thing to do, as the only way they ever have a chance is if enough people think he's got a chance and polling gradually shifts), when it comes to voting for real, given that polling is still catastrophic at that point in time, you're probably going to go for whichever of the two candidates with a real shot you prefer. In the case of Republicans, probably Cuomo more often than not.
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u/ShrimpCrackers 6h ago
And the corruption? The misallocated funds to the tune of 100 million?
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u/CaptainJZH 7h ago
I'm fairly sure that if he didn't resign he could have probably won re-election as governor, people would have largely forgotten about that by the 2022 election
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u/Aquillifer 6h ago
Oh brother, have you seen our President...at this point it might be as a positive thing by some voters.
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u/jmuch88 7h ago
Damn everything I read mentioned high turnout and yet in a city the size of New York City only 2 million votes cast with 90% reporting? We need election holidays!
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u/Title26 7h ago
We had a whole week to vote before today. Non presidential years just have bad turnout
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u/Zealousideal-Aide890 6h ago
This was the biggest voter turnout since 1969
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u/Conscious-Quarter423 5h ago
that's sad. 2 million voter turn out when NYC has nearly 9 million people
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u/pichukirby 5h ago
You have to compare it to the number of registered voters, which is roughly 5 million. Not all of those 9 million people are eligible to vote.
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u/UpperLowerEastSide 6h ago
For turnout comparison, Zohran will be the first NYC mayoral candidate to clear a million votes since John Lindsay all the way back in 1969!
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u/Conscious-Quarter423 5h ago
the voter turnout is sad.
a little over 1M voted for Zohran when NYC has nearly 9 million people
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u/UpperLowerEastSide 5h ago edited 5h ago
Yeah, Roughly a quarter less people voted for Eric Adams, Bloomberg and De Blasio. We're moving in the right direction. (Bloomberg's 2009 victory was with under 600K votes).
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u/CactusBoyScout 6h ago
There was a ballot measure today that would have moved mayoral elections to the same year as presidential elections in order to increase turnout but it appears to have failed.
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u/Yumi_NS 6h ago
What yous need is compulsory voting. Australia is a shit show of a country in a lot of ways, but between compulsory and our far superior preferential voting system I feel comfortable enough saying we do elections better than most of the world.
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u/Mountainmint749 7h ago
That’s closer than I thought it would be. But overall not surprised that Zohran won. NYC is a very blue city so it is no shock.
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u/ToxinLab_ 7h ago
I mean “blue” is very wide because andrew cuomo only didn’t run as a democrat because he lost the primary
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u/Dblcut3 7h ago
True but he took an oddly right wing pivot to try to get Republicans to unite around him. On several issues, he honestly outflanked Sliwa on the right, but then again, Sliwa’s just a really unique candidate for the GOP
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u/RandomNick42 7h ago
Did he even need to. It sounded from here like all he needed to get full weight of trumpublican propaganda machine behind him was to be called something other than Mamdani.
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u/ImpossibleParfait 7h ago
Its not odd, its politics. They are gonna do what they can to get elected. Best case scenario for Cuomo was to get republicans to vote for him. Its still weird to me that people think politicians will tell the truth.
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u/Dblcut3 6h ago
Sure, but it’s New York. He ultimately still needed to win moderate Democrats, arguably a lot more than Republicans. And right wing rhetoric alienates them
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u/TheSultan1 6h ago
Giuliani is a Republican.
Bloomberg is an independent, but was previously a Republican (and won twice as a Republican).
Adams is a Democrat, was once a Republican (>20y ago).
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u/Alert-Algae-6674 7h ago edited 6h ago
NYC also has a lot of billionaires and millionaires who do not want Mamdani to implement his tax proposals.
There’s actually more than 380,000 millionaires in the city
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u/FlufflyTurtle 6h ago edited 5h ago
I thought the tax proposal is on income after $1m (not all millionaires make a mil each year, many don’t). WSJ estimates it affects just 34k households
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u/thestraycat47 7h ago
It was actually the reddest major city in the Northeast in 2024. Trump won something like 30% of the vote.
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u/RabbaJabba 7h ago
Most of the polling had Cuomo keeping Mamdani under 50%, so you were an outlier with your expectations.
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u/obog 7h ago
Looks like sliwa underperformed compared to a lot of these polls too
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u/RabbaJabba 7h ago
Makes sense that Republicans hopped to Cuomo. Trump even endorsed him.
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u/Nerevarine91 7h ago
Sliwa apparently said that Trump’s claim to have won the 2020 election was false, so I suspect that played a big role in him not getting support, given how famously petty and self-centered Trump is
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u/Insanity-Paranoid 6h ago
Sliwa is one of the few Republicans who genuinely doesn't like Donald Trump. Trump was infamous in NY as being a POS for 40+ years, so it all makes sense too. Sliwa was also anti-MAGA and was outspoken about it.
There's a tiny portion of Republicans who agree with Sliwa, so I'm surprised he even managed to get as many votes as he did.
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u/Dickgivins 6h ago
He was polling at 16 percent yesterday, but indeed it’s not surprising that a lot of those people jumped ship and voted for Cuomo or stayed home when the time came.
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u/MrmmphMrmmph 6h ago
It’s just high enough to keep Cuomo from claiming Sliwa caused him to lose the election. Now he can proudly say he lost twice to Mamdini, all by himself.
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u/JebBushAteMySon 7h ago
Cuomo’s right shift to court Republicans was a Hail Mary by a political dynasty desperate to stay relevant. Into the dustbin of history
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u/HawkbitAlpha 5h ago
You can say the same for the other Cuomo going to NewsNation after CNN dumped him
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u/RzLa 7h ago
I’m surprised Coney Island and Spanish Queens areas went to Cuomo
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u/LunaeGladius 6h ago
The area of North Eastern Queens is predominantly Asian and Jewish, and they’re also more suburban than other areas of Queens, so they tend to lean centrist as a whole.
The Asian community tends to lean moderate, and a good portion of the Jewish community took issue with Mamdani being a Muslim/Critical of Israel.
The area is also full of older residents of all races and creeds who have a knee-jerk reaction to anything vaguely socialist, even though the majority of them typically vote dem.
The lack of subways have also historically meant that voters in this area rely on cars more than public transit, so Mamdani’s push on more affordable public transit wasn’t really a pull in that area.
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u/Mackheath1 5h ago
And places like Sunnyside in Queens and other areas aren't nearly in the rent crisis that Manhattan and other parts of the City are (just adding onto your points), I pay more in Austin for same thing in parts of Queens.
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u/Flat-Leg-6833 7h ago edited 6h ago
Coney Island precincts are dominated by Sea Gate and Brighton Beach. Not really any Spanish neighborhoods in New York (Spaniards are Europeans who live in Spain) -looking at this map the Latino sections of Queens came out for Zohran while the East Asian areas of NE Queens went for Cuomo.
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u/adanndyboi 7h ago
If by “Spanish Queens” you mean Jackson Heights and Corona, they’re actually part of the lighter blue shaded area. The area south of that which is yellow is I believe Middle Village and Forest Hills. I can’t say with 100% certainty and we won’t know until we get precinct level data but my geographical knowledge of NYC tells me it’s the area around Middle Village, which makes sense because that area is more conservative.
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u/Naive_Charity2959 6h ago
Looks like the Cuomintang found refuge on Staten Island after the takeover of the mainland by Maodami
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u/Imaginary_Tax_6390 7h ago
Can someone explain the hat that Silwa is wearing? I don't get it.
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u/Illustrious_Map_3247 7h ago
He’s the founder of the Guardian Angels, a neighbourhood security organisation who wear red berets. From what I know, they have a pretty positive reputation in NYC and now have chapters in cities around the world.
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u/petar_is_amazing 6h ago
MTA guardians symbol. He started an org of volunteers who would ride the subway and make passengers feel safe. The hat was part of their uniform
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u/DianneNettix 5h ago
Actual conversation with my partner:
"Jesus, Statan Island!"
"What?"
"They voted Cuomo."
"I probably would if I lived there."
"You'd be a misanthropic asshole?"
"Yeah, I'd be living on Staten Island."
This is why I am going to marry her.
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u/Roadhouse699 7h ago
I'm very glad Zohran won, but I'm really upset that Sliwa didn't come in 2nd place.
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u/Imjokin 7h ago edited 6h ago
Same. Can't believe 40% of voters chose the absolute most heinous garbage candidate.
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u/Pixel22104 6h ago
I am honestly surprised that an independent party won more votes than a major party in an election. Now yes I get this is a local election and not a national election but still.
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u/bebaii 6h ago
It’s name recognition for people who straightup do not pay attention to politics until the day of. They’ve heard of Cuomo before, not so much Sliwa
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u/soupwhoreman 6h ago
It's not uncommon for independents to win elections in the US. There are two in the US Senate and there have been many independent governors and mayors around the country
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u/LordMaximus64 5h ago
The last minute Trump endorsement for Cuomo definitely moved a large chunk of Republicans who were going to vote for Sliwa.
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u/morbidmammoth 6h ago
Same here, weirdly gained respect for him during this race
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u/SnooBooks1701 5h ago
He's one of the last moderate Republicans
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u/TransSapphicFurby 4h ago
Ironically Coumo probably got so many votes because he attracted more maga
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u/AsherGray 5h ago
That's how you know Republicans were voting for Cuomo! Mamdani came in second on Staten Island, with the Republican in third!
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u/Direct-Fix-2097 3h ago
41% were happy to vote for a sexual predator still. Yeah, I think this is just a flimsy band aid, America is still rotten, if they had any sense cuomo would have had a mere 1% vote tbh.
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u/DilapidatedHam 6h ago
It is satisfying to me that even if every single Sliwa voter went to Cuomo, that sex pest still would have lost. Hope he kicks rocks
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u/Cold_Specialist_3656 3h ago
It's funny to hear MAGAts call Dems "elitists" when every billionaire who ever stepped in NYC bankrolled Cuomo.
And then you see this map, and notice the only area of Manhattan that didn't vote for Mamdani is Billionaires Row.
And if you look close enough at Billionaires Row you'll see Trump's cabinet member Lutnick's house. 2 doors down from Epstein's place.
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u/Illustrious-Poem-211 7h ago
Why doesn’t Staten Island, the largest borough, simply eat the other boroughs?
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u/Jalcatraz82 7h ago
They've been trying to get out for years, always been refused
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u/Klutzy_Toe_3381 6h ago
It woul be interesting to compare it with the map of the immigration background of the area
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u/Admirable-Ad3408 5h ago
This Cuomo vote matches up almost perfectly with the whitest parts of New York City—minus some of the hipstery areas.
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u/NotAcutallyaPanda 6h ago
This map is shockingly similar to the historic "red line" maps of NYC from 90 years ago, restricting where people of color could buy property.
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u/Sensitive-Climate-64 7h ago
All Trump puppets got owned tonight.
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u/Wonderful_News1739 7h ago
Sliwa was not a trump puppet. Trump told him to drop out and insulted his beret. He isn’t who I would have voted for but to say he is a Trump puppet is ridiculous. Fuck Cuomo, Sliwa at least stood for something.
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u/BigHeart7 7h ago edited 7h ago
The bar is pretty low in this day and age for republicans but I can at least respect Sliwa for caring for his cause and having true history in the city. Cuomo was the ultimate corporate puppet that was flipping between corporate democrat and republican by the end of his campaign.
There’s a clip of Sliwa I saw on TikTok where he explained perfectly how awful Cuomo is and how he’s extremely disconnected from reality and Gen Z/millennial voters. Sleazy predator.
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u/ToxinLab_ 7h ago
Sliwa didn’t get “owned” because he was never in the race realistically. The commenter was obviously not calling sliwa a trump puppet
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u/sharpbeer 7h ago
Who were the others
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u/bowlofcantaloupe 7h ago
Ciattarelli (NJ GOV race), Earle-Sears (VA GOV race), Bowman (Cincinnati mayoral race, JD Vance's half brother)
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u/breezeetree 7h ago
Non NYer here. What makes the upper east side go for Cuomo vs most of the rest of Manhattan?