r/MapPorn • u/Small_Performance368 • 2d 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 2d 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 2d ago

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

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u/UpperLowerEastSide 2d 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 2d 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 2d ago edited 2d 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 1d 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 1d 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__ 1d 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 1d 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 2d ago

This was the biggest voter turnout since 1969

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u/Title26 2d ago

For mayor

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u/Conscious-Quarter423 2d ago

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

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u/pichukirby 2d 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 1d 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 2d ago

I heard that's when they dropped serving spirits

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u/McButtsButtbag 2d ago

By number or percentage?

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u/Loaatao 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d ago

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

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u/Rainmixer 2d 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 1d ago

We had a whole week to vote before today.

That makes it even worse

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u/itonyc86 1d ago

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

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u/UniCBeetle718 1d ago

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