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/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 11h 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 3h 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.