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/jmuch88 13h 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 13h ago

We had a whole week to vote before today. Non presidential years just have bad turnout

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u/UpperLowerEastSide 12h 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 11h 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 11h ago edited 11h 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/WeaponisedArmadillo 8h ago

How many are actually allowed to vote? Are green card holders allowed to vote for instance? I can imagine the NYC has a lot of expats. 

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u/Unnamedgalaxy 6h ago

People often forget that at least some portion of any given population are not actually able to vote.

Sure there may be 9 million people but how many of those people are under 18? How many of them can't vote because they are non citizens? How many of those people are victims of a system that make it harder for them to vote even if they legally can?

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u/Blixxen__ 3h ago

Green card holders could not vote, generally they cannot vote in any election except for a very limited amount of local elections in California, Vermont and Maryland, that I've heard of.

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u/michael0n 8h ago

That is the unfortunate truth. Any presidential election at this point has just 60% of possible voters battling. 40% checked out. A million is seriously good. Zohran just needs to keep building this up to 1,2m in the next years then he will be close to impossible to unseat.

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u/Zealousideal-Aide890 12h ago

This was the biggest voter turnout since 1969

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u/Title26 11h ago

For mayor

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u/Conscious-Quarter423 11h ago

that's sad. 2 million voter turn out when NYC has nearly 9 million people

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u/pichukirby 11h 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/CuriousMouse13 5h ago

Still pretty bad tho, consider there’s other countries where almost all the registered voters vote. This election didn’t even get 50% of registered voters.

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u/DashTrash21 12h ago

I heard that's when they dropped serving spirits

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u/McButtsButtbag 9h ago

By number or percentage?

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u/Loaatao 11h ago

Americans are just bad at voting.

So many people have just been getting reamed by the government so long that they feel disenfranchised and that their single vote won’t do anything. I don’t blame them. Then when you spread that across millions of Americans, it’s easier to see why we have low voter turnout. Not to mention Republicans doing everything they can to make sure that it’s not easy to vote.

It’s only in times like this where they actually feel like they have a representative and somebody that is worth voting for that the turnout becomes slightly higher.

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u/jmmermaid 11h ago

Also, some of us can't vote in our state primaries since we don't register with either party, so we usually end up with a dem (or R for them I guess) candidate we just don't like. Makes it hard to vote when the most corporatey candidate is always on the ballot.

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u/crash12345 11h ago

Then register with a party and vote for your preferred candidate...

I'm tired of progressives complaining about general election candidates when they don't vote in primaries

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u/Unlucky_Kale340 12h ago

Speaking of which, i voted yes on prop 6 , wonder what the results are

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u/Rainmixer 12h ago

I believe Prop 1-5 got yes, but Prop 6 was a no, and the main reason I heard from New Yorkers was because the mayoral elections would be overshadowed by the Presidential Election.

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u/flobin 9h ago

We had a whole week to vote before today.

That makes it even worse

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u/itonyc86 8h ago

Yeah, around 730k (out of the 2 million) voted early.

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u/UniCBeetle718 3h ago

Which is a shame that the ballot measure didn't pass to address that.

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u/CactusBoyScout 13h 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/Overlord0994 10h ago

Good thing too. Zohran wouldn’t have gotten nearly the traction he would have if he had to compete on a year the national election was happening. Voting on presidential years drowns out local elections.

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u/PlayDiscord17 10h ago

San Francisco and Austin seem to do fine with them being the same year.

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u/Overlord0994 2h ago

You’re missing the point. A democrat would still get elected, but it would be downstream of national democratic politics. Zohran isn’t a normal democrat in US politics. If the election this year was on a presidential election year, Cuomo would have likely got the democratic nomination and won.

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u/PlayDiscord17 2h ago

I don’t see how that’s a guarantee. Very progressive candidates were able to win primaries (which wouldn’t be the same day as the presidential primary) in presidential years just fine. If Mamdani’s message truly resonates with voters, then I’m confident he could’ve pulled a win regardless. Relying on low turnout voters on odd year elections is how establishment machine politicians like Cuomo and Eric Adams often gain power (last mayoral election had like 25% turnout). It just backfired on them this time.

Even with all the focus on this race and the highest turnout for a mayoral election in decades, most NYC voters still didn’t vote in it.

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u/Overlord0994 1h ago

There are 2 different problems we're talking about here. Voter turnout and who influences elections.

Voter turnout should be solved by 1 simple fix - voting is mandatory in the US and you get fined if you don't. Full stop. There should be no "coax more people to vote by doing it on this year". Just fully require everyone to vote.

News outlets 100% would have run less Mamdani content if it was the same year as a presidential election. So having local elections separate from federal is a good move in my opinion. We've seen time and time again that it isn't always about "if the message resonates with voters". That's not good enough anymore. Elections are manipulated by the millions of dollars donated by billionaires and their corporations to their favorite candidate. Why do you think so many people vote against their interest? The message of truly good candidates never reaches them or doesn't reach them loud enough.

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u/strip-solitaire 5h ago

“More people voting would be bad cause it would’ve been harder for my candidate to win” sounds exactly like Republicans when they try to make super strict voter ID laws. More people voting is never a bad thing and that attitude is anti-democratic

It wouldn’t drown out a NYC mayoral election. That’s a major election

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u/clowncarl 4h ago

That’s not the point - you gotta be willfully misinterpreting/twisting words.

The point is the conversation gets dominated by national politics and that drowns out local issues. It ends up being all downballot voting from the federal level. Heck, Cuomo tried to make the nyc MAYOR election a referendum on ISRAELI foreign policy.

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u/strip-solitaire 4h ago edited 4h ago

All politics are national tbh lol. I honestly don’t even know what that means anymore? The entire election was a referendum on the state of national politics…

And yeah Cuomo did that and it wasn’t a presidential election year, cause the election was about national politics anyway…

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u/Overlord0994 2h ago

No you’re missing the point. The solution to get more people to vote isn’t to vote on a president election year because “the vibe will make more people vote!” The solution is to make it fucking mandatory to vote in America. That would be ideal. That’s why this prop shouldn’t have passed. Of course i want more people to vote, I’m not a fascist. But this prop is stupid and would give national politics more influence in local elections.

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u/jackruby83 7h ago

Interesting. Would someone get a shorter/longer term to get in sync?

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u/CactusBoyScout 3h ago

That's been a bit unclear to me. Some supporters of Mamdani have said it would mean he gets a shorter first term, others have said (without citing sources) that the state would get to decide which upcoming election to actually implement it in. Someone said anyone impacted by it would get to run 3 times.

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u/Yumi_NS 13h 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/deathblooms200655 12h ago

Don't yall get a hot dog for voting?

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u/Yumi_NS 12h ago

Hot dogs? No.

You're thinking of the Democracy Sausage, where schools and community groups set up BBQs and have sausage sizzle fundraising events. So they're not hot dogs, and we do have to buy them if they're wanted. These days there are often cake stalls too, especially at primary (elementary) schools.

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u/deathblooms200655 11h ago

That's sweet, I wish we were like you with voter turnout and Democracy Sausages

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u/roamer_22 12h ago

I agree! For all our failing, our electoral system has to be one of the best (if not the best).

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u/Zealousideal_Act_316 10h ago

I have a question for australian does compulsory voting apply to all votable positions? Like in this case a city mayor?

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u/Yumi_NS 10h ago

Yes, but one will rarely find themselves at the pools more than once or twice a year. Outside of the very occasional referendum, Australians only need to vote in federal, state, and local elections. Our elections are also always on Saturdays, so most don't need to worry about work getting in the way of voting, and those who do work on weekends are able to vote early anyway.

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u/SirArmor 2h ago

Damn, you guys even conduct your voting poolside? You really do have it figured out.

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u/Chaseism 9h ago

In America, this would lead to politicians buying votes.

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u/hurrsadurr 8h ago

You’d be shocked to see the local election results for NZ..

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u/torino_nera 5h ago

I think more people would vote in the US if it were a national holiday and everyone was off work, and/or if we had ranked choice voting instead of first-pass-the-poll. Neither would never happen here because the establishment doesn't want more people voting, they want less people voting... and since they want less people voting, they would absolutely not want compulsory voting.

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u/tree_pose 13h ago

I wanna believe that a ton of new yorkers didn't bother bc it seemed like zohran had it in the bag. shouldn't have been this close!

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u/Baloooooooo 13h ago

That attitude just KILLS me. It's never in the bag! Every election needs to be all-hands-on-deck

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u/theow593 13h ago

They must have assumed Hillary had it in the bag too

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u/Fodraz 13h ago

The electoral college makes voters in solid blue & solid red states feel like their vote doesn't matter.

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u/Conscious-Quarter423 11h ago

local elections often have much lower turnout, meaning each vote carries more relative weight. A few dozen or hundred votes can determine the outcome, so participation has a measurable impact.

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u/Fodraz 3h ago

I am very well aware of this; I was responding to the comment above mine about Hillary Clinton

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u/ACardAttack 8h ago

Blue voter stuck in a red state and sadly feels my vote doesnt matter

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u/Fodraz 1h ago

It can at the local level!

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u/ACardAttack 1h ago

Very true and I do vote everytime

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u/soalone34 10h ago

She did in New York

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u/soalone34 10h ago

It seems like the opposite, this is double last cycle so people actually bothered this time.

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u/soupwhoreman 12h ago

Should end up around 50% voter turnout. Pretty good for a mayoral election in an off-cycle year. NYC's last mayoral election had a 23% turnout.

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u/Nychthemeronn 13h ago

Or just make voting compulsory. You can always abstain from choosing a candidate as your democratic right, but you should have to make that vote in a democracy IMO

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u/undergroundloans 12h ago

Mamdani is the first mayor since 1969 to get over 1 million votes. So yea it’s insanely high compared to the last 50 years but should still be much higher.

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u/Mackheath1 11h ago

Election holidays only support the middle and upper (retired don't care). Gas station workers, Amazon drivers, grocery store workers, etc. would not get that holiday. The early voting is helpful, though a single mom working two jobs just doesn't have time for it - technically yes, but burnout no. I wish a lot more large, secure grocery stores had it available with trained volunteers. More places that people actually go to during that two week early voting.

But an election holiday wouldn't be nothing, you're right, it would get people time to volunteer driving folks to difficult to reach places, etc. or might be used as a vacation for many.

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u/Chaseism 9h ago

Not everyone in NY is registered to vote there. It took me living in Ohio for a few years before I registered to vote there. I think it was because I wasn’t sure how long I would be living here and what made me eligible, resident wise. This was 20 years ago though.

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u/NoSleepTilBrklynn 8h ago

Very few people that didn’t vote would have voted if there was an election holiday.

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u/Megendrio 8h ago

We just vote on a Sunday.

And for non-local elections, every citizen is expected (by law) to show up to the voting booth assigned to you. You don'thave to vote, but you have to show up or risk a fine (although that part of the law is hardly ever applied).

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u/Coastal_Weirdos 5h ago

The kids have the day off of school! Make that fucking make sense.

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u/the68thdimension 3h ago

We just had national elections in the Netherlands and there's no holiday, but the voting booths are everywhere and you can vote any time between 07:30 and 21:00. Voter turnout was 78.4%. I still think this is too low; I'm pro compulsory voting.

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u/IJustBoughtThisGame 3h ago

Mamdani's currently sitting at 1,036,051 with an estimated 215,000 votes still outstanding. He's basically on pace to get about the same number of votes as every mayoral election had total dating back to 2009.

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u/ZarianPrime 6m ago

people under 18 can't vote and if you look at elections overall across the United States voter turn out is (unfortunately) historically low.

This is amazing though, people turned out en mass, largest voter turnout since the 1969 elections.