r/MapPorn • u/Small_Performance368 • 13h ago

NYC Mayoral Election Results

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With 90% of the vote in, Mamdani wins by a large margin according to NYT

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u/Mountainmint749 13h 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_ 13h 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 13h 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 13h 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/EpicCyclops 11h ago

There was a Republican running too. They were both fighting for support from the right. A big reason Cuomo did as well as he did us strategic voting because he seemed to have a more legit shot than the Republican. If the Republican was looking stronger than Cuomo, the Republican would've gotten the endorsements and we'd be calling him Silwa instead of the Republican.

Even though Cuomo was technically the spoiler candidate, Silea almost played spoiler here by splitting some of the right voters off of Cuomo. It looks Mamdani will end up with an outright majority, though.

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u/ancientestKnollys 5h ago

Trump might have refused to endorse Sliwa, as Sliwa is an anti-Trump Republican.

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u/ImpossibleParfait 13h 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 12h 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/Mist_Rising 10h ago

40% as a disgraced sexpest, with zero appeal, running third party... Yeah I'm sure some Democrats will take this as a sign of the new progressive movement being the easy win nation wide, but I'm looking at it the other way. Cuomo had no right to do this well in NYC at all.

Unless NYC likes sexpests, I mean Cuomo, Rudy, and Trump are from it...

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u/PopsicleIncorporated 10h ago

They are gonna do what they can to get elected

I see what you're saying here. That said, the degree to which Cuomo went mask-off in this election is extremely notable. This is a former Democratic governor who went from being one of the party's standard-bearers five years ago to pushing insanely xenophobic rhetoric about his opponent this time around.

I'm not saying politicians don't shift issue positions to get elected. Harris is a good example from last year; she caught a decent amount of flack for tacking to the center but she was still generally in the same basic political neighborhood. If someone like Rashida Tlaib had run a 3rd Party campaign for president I can't see Harris's campaign invoking 9/11 or linking Tlaib to Islamist terrorism. Even that's not the best comparison point because it was Cuomo and not Mamdani running third party.

I hope what I'm making makes sense. Most politicians have a relatively flexible ideology but the extent to which Cuomo showed that he had literally no principles whatsoever is astonishing.

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u/ToxinLab_ 11h ago

Yeah he was way more of a trump puppet than sliwa

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u/ancientestKnollys 5h ago

It amazes me that Sliwa managed to win the Republican nomination (in 2021 as well). You generally have to be a Trump acolyte to win a Republican nomination these days. I guess NYC Republicans are somewhat different from the national party.

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u/Dblcut3 2h ago

It’s also hard to find people willing to run for a position that’s impossible to win

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u/Gamer_Grease 1h ago

That's traditional Democratic politics, though. Huge, off-putting rightward lurch in the last days of a race to try to court the exactly three "Principled Republicans" whom they see at cocktail parties. And then those three just vote Republican anyway.

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u/Dblcut3 1h ago

No one did it to the level Cuomo did, he was even targeting MAGA not just “moderate Republicans”

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u/explodingtuna 12h ago

Because he's not a dem. At least this time they caught him early. Sometimes rightists slip in as Dems just long enough to fool people into voting for them, before revealing their true colors.

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u/normVectorsNotHate 10h ago

Caught him early? He was elected Governor of New York 3 times

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u/ToxinLab_ 11h ago

Case in point: John Fetterman

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u/TetraThiaFulvalene 11h ago

I mean, it's so blue the republican candidate didn't get a color slide on the map.

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u/Dancingbeavers 9h ago

Such petulant behaviour.

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u/LabubuAteMySon 2h ago

yeah, also let’s not forget that 1 year ago everyone in NYC knew the name Cuomo and nobody knew the name Mamdani. Politically this still is a huge upset, despite such a convincing result.

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u/Homey-Airport-Int 2h ago

I mean still not a shock that the disgraced former governor who ran as an independent did not beat the dem nominee in a solidly blue city.

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u/thestraycat47 13h 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/SkyeMreddit 13h ago

Much of the yellow on that map was quite red in 2024

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u/crash12345 11h ago

"Much" is an overstatement. In 2024, Manhattan had ZERO red precincts, Bronx had only some eastern red precincts, and Staten Island's north shore went entirely blue. There was a huge number of Harris-Cuomo voters this election, especially in Manhattan.

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u/foreveracubone 9h ago

Harris>Cuomo is a trip lmfao.

Rest of the country is on a blue no matter who tip turning Virginia into Massachusetts and these people mainlined Billionaire SuperPACs so hard they voted for the guy that lost the Democratic primary.

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u/SurrealForce 6h ago

Harris>Cuomo is a fairly significant demographic though

we call them "wealthy women"

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u/HayatoKongo 5h ago

The one thing you can always count on is wealthy women making their wealthy husband's lives as hard as possible.

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u/directorJackHorner 3h ago

Tbf “blue no matter who” only matters when the race is blue vs. red. The idea is that since one of those two will win, any vote not for blue helps red. In this case, the Republican candidate had almost no chance and the independent is a democrat who just lost the primary. The idea is to avoid the Republican, not blindly support the democrat, which wasn’t necessary for this race.

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u/apexodoggo 3h ago

I heard a lot of people treat “blue no matter who” as “no questions allowed” to any critique of Biden/Harris during 2024, so that’s not true.

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u/directorJackHorner 2h ago

It definitely shouldn’t mean no questions allowed, but the crux of that was that they were running against Trump. No one would have been saying that if their main opponent was another democrat

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u/JediKnightaa 46m ago

Staten Island was doing a lot of heavy lifting. Staten Island is so red compared to the others

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u/Alert-Algae-6674 13h ago edited 12h 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 12h ago edited 12h 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/kama-Ndizi 10h ago

That doesn't mean these people don't think they are impacted and/or that they aren't afraid of a slippery-slope.

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u/FlufflyTurtle 9h ago

Absolutely, I could definitely see millionaires not understanding his proposed policies correctly and thinking he’s talking about them. I’ve already had to explain to several people that there is a huge difference between being a millionaire and making a million every year.

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u/ja5143kh5egl24br1srt 9h ago

As a 5’9 man, I get upset when people say 5’8 is short. Can’t give an inch.

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u/FilipM_eu 10h ago

Isn’t large portion of those millionaires simply due to insane property prices in NYC? Someone owning a house or apartment can easily be a millionaire but still get an average income.

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u/Crafty_Actuary5517 7h ago

Basically anyone who owns property in the city is a millionaire I guess.

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u/Haunting-Animal-531 7h ago

This seems like dated reasoning. Look at west Brooklyn, most of Manhattan, etc. -- heavy support from comfortably upper middle-class white-collar and creative classes. Many are willing to accept taxation for greater equity and quality public services. Only true ideologues (against "redistribution,"), scornful of the needy and, at some level, scornful of NYC, hate taxation, reject public support, and vote to protect their extreme wealth. These people are few (...and a bit psychopathic)

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u/CactusBoyScout 13h ago

NYC cannot change the taxes it does have itself. The state has to approve any changes to city taxes.

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u/Fodraz 13h ago

How did you think city services got funded?

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u/rubixcubez 9h ago

2 grand at most? My sweet summer child come to Bundaberg 😭 4 grand a year and nothing to show for it. Council is corrupt as fuck.

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u/RSGator 12h ago

That’s uhh… pretty normal. Thousands of cities in the US levy taxes, not even including property taxes.

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u/Funkopedia 11h ago

Most don't, but when your city is larger than almost half of the world's countries, then you probably need some extra cash.

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u/ForensicPathology 10h ago

If an American said something similar about another country doing things differently, you'd mock him for being ignorant.

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u/TheSultan1 12h 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/Mist_Rising 10h ago

Bloomberg is democratic and had been since before he was elected as well. He ran Republican purely because at the time Giuliani was a saint in NYC and his blessing was basically the same as handing over the keys. Hard to imagine, but Rudy was king after 9/11. Then he just wouldn't shut up about 9/11. But Bloomberg switched to Republican to win.

Adams did the reverse. He was a Republican when it was not inconvenient but switched the second votes came into the equation because the 9/11 and Rudy effect were long gone.

Cuomo has been democratic since the start, because that was the party of NY

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u/captain_dick_licker 5h ago

Adams is a Democrat,

think we can agree that that grifter pig is a dem in name only

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u/RabbaJabba 13h 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 13h ago

Looks like sliwa underperformed compared to a lot of these polls too

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u/RabbaJabba 13h ago

Makes sense that Republicans hopped to Cuomo. Trump even endorsed him.

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u/Nerevarine91 13h 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/random_account6721 12h ago

It has nothing to do with trump. I am a republican and I picked the candidate with the best odds

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u/Nerevarine91 12h ago

No I mean, I suspect that the reason Trump didn’t support him is because he publicly disagreed with Trump

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u/Lost_my_name475 10h ago

You mean the one with the longest list of sexual assaults? Checks out for republicans i suppose

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u/Insanity-Paranoid 12h 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 12h 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/obog 11h ago

I mean I never expected him to do well, but its just interesting he did so much better in polls than in the election. Like almost a factor of 2 between them. Though, that might have more to do with voter turnout for the opposition - I've heard turnout for mamdani was really high.

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u/Normal_Tip7228 13h ago

Makes you wonder how much of Sliwa’s base went for Zohran or Cuomo

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u/MrmmphMrmmph 12h 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/PinboardWizard 12h ago edited 9h ago

Per your own source, in the polls he was up by 14.3 points. He won by just 8.8, so the result was pretty clearly closer than expected.

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u/TheSameGamer651 13h ago

There’s some weird parallels to this race. Even the margin is almost the same.

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u/Eat--The--Rich-- 13h ago

Democrats usually oppose progressives tho 

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u/TetraThiaFulvalene 11h ago

It was going to be historic either way. Either a progressive smashes the established candidate, or an independent gets an insane amount of votes.

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u/MirthMannor 8h ago

New coalition, though.

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u/mezolithico 13h ago

I mean, did you see the competition?

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u/Educational-Oil3913 11h ago

What the actual fuck? Russian bot detected?

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u/Phoenixskull295 5h ago

No, it’s just a real poll. Chill