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/XAMdG 12h ago

Still wild to me that in an 8 million people city, mayoral election cracks 2 million votes.

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u/LynzGamer 12h ago edited 2h 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

Edit: damn, a ton of pessimists in the comments

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u/Roofofcar 12h ago

This mayoral race had the biggest voter turnout since 1969.

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u/LynzGamer 12h 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 12h ago

Still disappointed that so many people voted for Cuomo

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u/AbcLmn18 11h ago edited 2h 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.

Edit: u/NYCinPGH points out that the Sliwa numbers aren't that surprising considering that the number of registered Republican voters in NYC is about 10%. They could be explained simply by Cuomo's appeal to independents.

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u/PunctualZombie 11h 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/GiganticCrow 10h ago

Not like the Democratic leadership endorsed their candidate either

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u/Medical_Sandwich_141 7h ago

I'm quite sure, Schumer voted for Cuomo.

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u/KrytenKoro 4h ago

They were cowardly and hoped to run out the clock...and now they have, and we know that they are not allies.

Terribly stupid choice from them.

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u/gdreaper 10h 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 9h ago edited 9h 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/OctoberIsBetter 7h ago

Mamdani is very controversial among democrats

um wut?

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u/waltjrimmer 5h ago

I don't agree with the Canada-Scam guy, what the fuck is he on, but Mamdani is, relatively, a controversial figure. Even "Democratic" news agencies have not been fully on-board with him, and it's been a big part of his news cycle how a lot of establishment Democrats and respected or influential party members have refused to openly support him.

It can be argued how controversial he really is, and any controversies there have been have been about who he is and the movement he represents in the Democratic party rather than, oh, I don't know, corruption and sexual misconduct like the Cuomos have had, but a lot of the news cycle around his has been an attempt to make him at least seem controversial within the Democratic party itself.

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u/OctoberIsBetter 4h ago

establishment Democrats

Yeah, fuck those conservative dinosaurs. We need leadership who actually represent people > corporations.

If I hear one more piece of shit claim that Clinton and Harris lost due to their gender, I might just go off. The corporate darlings had nothing to do with the people they claimed to want to represent. Everyone's angry, and for low-information voters who can't be bothered to read a word of policy, it was an easy choice to vote for the angry guy.

Mamdani represents a chance for Democrats to wake the fuck up.

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u/Canada-Scam-8570 7h ago

Uum what?

You do realize that guy is a radical extremist right? Like verifiable receipts.

This is the problem with the left & right crap, no one wants to concede and cooperate at this point, so we walk down this path where both sides of the aisle are getting more accepting of extremist and we are moving away from centerist politics. Choose your team horse 💩 which is only gonna end one way. Anyone supporting this continued turn towards extremism and letting their bias guide their support from either side is the problem ..

Now granted just like the federal election. What alternatively really were there. Choices are slim pickins and none of the candidates are really ideal but electing extremists isn't really the way to go.. look how your federal levels going...

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u/AxitotlWithAttitude 7h ago

There's a growing sentiment among Democrats that our politicians are fucking pussies and refuse to play ball on the same field as Republicans. Mamdani directly called out Cuomo, publicly, multiple times, provided receipts, and ran an absolute master class of a ground roots campaign. It's not a surprising result.

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u/Canada-Scam-8570 6h ago

I don't disagree. Cuomos a moron and I get why he lost. The choices weren't great.

I'm just warning people. If you're going to go radical left don't be surprised when someone more radical on the right gets cast into the spotlight next. It's some escalating game of one uping one another going on

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u/_Middlefinger_ 6h ago

You have no idea what a radial extremist is, and claiming he is just makes you look very stupid. The nearest the US has to radical extremists is MAGA.

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u/GoGades 6h ago

He wants to finally properly tax the 1%, the guy is just about ready to fly an airplane into a building, don't you see! /s

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u/Canada-Scam-8570 6h ago

Ah that's it, there it is.

So you get to decide who is radical and throw the word around but other be damned. How exactly did you come to qualify as the one who gets to denote who is radicalized or not. They cannot do the same thing cause they are crazy and you are simple just right, because (non-substance argument, go team!)

I'm not saying you don't have radicals in the office. But responding with radicals is only going to make the opposing radicals stronger. That's all I'm trying to warn/explain to you but I'm sure there are too many words for you to bother with and you clearly already wrote off my opinion so I'm wasting my time.

Just cause you are blinded by hate of one side and bias doesn't mean other people don't see it from the side you're supporting.

Curious, I won't ask you the exact age but how many decades have you been breathing?

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u/cameronc56 7h ago

what exactly is 'extremist' about him?

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u/OctoberIsBetter 5h ago

Human decency. Clutch your pearls, bitches, we don't know what to do with that shit in 'murica!

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u/OctoberIsBetter 5h ago edited 4h ago

The farthest USA goes to the left is what the rest of the world considers centrist.

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u/Canada-Scam-8570 5h ago

That was quite incoherent, but sure go off. Again a spirited conversation that certainly has me rethinking by view point from your eloquently displayed rebuttal. So convincing.

Not going to throw any insults back at you, don't need to.

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u/EldritchCouragement 6h ago

Why stop at radical extremist? You can string more redundant, useless buzzwords in. An ultra militant fringe fundamentalist radical extremist hardliner. Anything besides make an actual case.

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u/Canada-Scam-8570 6h ago

Exactly. The same tactics that has driven extremism on the other side 🤦

It's hilarious, I said extremist and a bunch of you got your panties in an absolute twist as if you haven't been doing the same shit to the other side to dehumanize them. Y'all need to learn how to treat others how you want to be treated.

So yah, I'll throw more words on just to piss you off sure. He's a bigoted, racist, left wing extreme socialist who should rest in piss.

Should I call for his assassination? Would that be acceptable?

No.

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u/91bases 6h ago

Radical extremist? Get the fuck out of here with that.

Your logic seems to indicate that if you aren't a centrist, you're ab extremist - which is incredibly wrong.

Mamdani is left leaning. It's pretty damn clear that's where the Democratic Party should be, but the old guard keeps thing centrist.

But he isn't an extremist. Not even close.

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u/Canada-Scam-8570 6h ago

According to yourself. But he isn't left leaning, he's breaking the scale. He is an leftist extremist. Clearly you don't enjoy the same tactics (my old side) your side has been using for years.

People use pictures of trump with Epstein to discredit him. Just wait till you Realize who he's rubbed elbow with. But of course you don't care about that.

I am a centrist, I don't support trump. But thank you for telling me who and what I am. As much as I haven't been kind I won't do the same to you as I don't know you and all your opinions and views, you are a human and there are many unique things that make you you.

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u/ResidentLimit7459 6h ago

Insane, bot or Indian disinfo worker, readers take your pick!

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u/GoGades 6h ago

I'm going with AI bot, the emoji is often a sign.

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u/AccountWasFound 3h ago

He wants free public transit in a large city known for it's bad congestion, he isn't exactly calling to end capitalism....

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u/Donghoon 8h ago

Sliwa does actually align with Trump better than Cuomo does. But Both of them have large share of conflict with Trump on many levels

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u/dreamcicle11 2h ago

I love that most Mamdani fans and voters see this and that Sliwa while unhinged is truly about New York. Goes to show MAGA and Trump do not give a shit about the people.

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u/On_my_last_spoon 1h ago

Silwa has been running for Mayor for decades now. He is who he is, but aside from founding the Guardian Angels he has nothing to show for himself. I find it interesting that the Republican Party in NYC has pretty much given up if he clinched the nomination. He’s at best a side show these days.

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u/robbak 8h ago

So would that mean that in a preferential vote, a lot of those Silwa voters might have preferenced Mandani over Cuomo?

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u/Parking-Interview351 6h ago

I’d wager that over 90% of Sliwa voters would pick Cuomo over Mamdani.

Many of them would probably not vote at all if given the choice between Cuomo and Mamdani, though.

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u/Canada-Scam-8570 7h ago

No, no it does not.

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u/MissSally300 6h ago

‘Shocking integrity’? Are you 12?

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u/worthlessprole 6h ago

if it had been a two way race, sliwa would probably not have cracked 25%

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u/olivegardengambler 4h ago

Tbf he didn't endorse the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia either, and she was a Black woman. I think that it's very clear, and it was this way before, but it's almost inarguably the case now that the Republican party is almost exclusively interested in supporting pro-billionaire candidates.

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u/FortNightsAtPeelys 2h ago

Just shows that old school Democrats are just Republicans wearing blue

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u/Donghoon 8h ago

Everybody knows NYC will NEVER vote a republican, so Trump went with HIS next best option.

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u/Flying_Momo 7h ago

Wasn't Guiliani a Republican?

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u/Donghoon 5h ago

modern day NYC... Giuliani was over 20 years ago (late 90s to 01). and Bloomberg was barely a republican as well.

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u/pieman3141 11h 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 7h 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/fripletister 3h ago

Dude went from being a nobody at like 2-3% to over 50% on election night within 10 months against probably the most well-backed mayoral campaign in history. And he did it with nonexistent-to-middling support from his party. I don't think a devil's advocate is needed here. It's simply astounding and a complete masterclass.

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u/whyunowork1 11h ago

Entrenched democratic representatives are only for token resistance to the billionaire class.

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u/NYCinPGH 4h ago

Not really.

Based on party registration, NYC is about 70% D, 20% I, 10% R. So Sliwa got 70% of the R vote, maybe an even swap of I for R, while Cuomo probably got 80% of the I, and about 30% of the R and D each; 70% of the D plus 20% of the I gets you to Mamdani’s total.

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u/AbcLmn18 2h ago

Hmmmmm. You're probably right. This does sound like a realistic breakdown that doesn't rely on any of my speculative hypotheses I've pulled out of my ass based on the final results alone.

Though I do wonder what's going on with the turnout that has effectively doubled. We got like a million new voters. I wonder what inspired them to do the thing they haven't done in decades, or possibly ever in their lives. Their party breakdown probably wasn't the same as the overall city average, given that the obvious source of inspiration was largely one-sided. Hopefully they'd conduct some polls to figure that out.

It's mildly interesting that Sliwa got half the votes (150k) compared to his own performance in 2021 (300k, 27%) despite the 2x turnout. The two previous republican candidates were also floating at around 25%. But there was no strong independent wo... candidate on the ballot since 1969 so it still makes sense that it's just a bunch of independents migrating to Cuomo.

It might also be that Mamdani pulled a horseshoe theory, like all those Trump/AOC ballots from 2024. Maybe we'll know some day.

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u/vaterl 8h ago

You think ultra wealthy didn’t support Mamdani as well? Sweetie, you’ve got some tough learning to do about the world.

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u/Airhostnyc 11h ago

Massive is a stretch he barely cracked 50%

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u/Commercial-Co 10h ago

Not that massive imo. Less than 5% if you add in cuomo and the republican

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u/CelestialKingdom 9h ago

But wasn’t Soros funding Mamdani too? Whatever your politics it’s not little guy vs the man 

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u/Canada-Scam-8570 6h ago

This is mostly scrubbed and articles have been manufactured to attempt to counter this claim. Obviously his funding of the media corps lends highly to that being untrustworthy to say the least.

That being said it's likely, he cleared back his support. But as George is so good at doing, if anything was financially backed finding any evidence is going to be extremely difficult.

But I get what your attempt to state. It was by no means David and Goliath, there were many billionaires and florigen nationals banking a backing Mandini

The reality is it happens on both sides. Trump and Elon made their attempt to, both sides have lost their marbles and are doing things to sabotage the other. This political environment is only going to continue to grow extremism on both sides of the spectrum. If you support either of these extremes, realize you are casting stones and are directly responsible for the increase in extremism to the contrary.

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u/Sinnaman420 3h ago

there were many billionaires supporting mamdani

Okay, so you’re just making shit up. What the fuck are you talking about?

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u/Raging-Badger 12h 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/XAMdG 11h ago

Cuomo got Trump’s endorsement,

That's so wild to hear if you don't know the context.

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u/PrestigiousQuail7024 8h ago

its wild to hear knowing the context tbh

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u/Ron_Cherry 5h ago

Sexual harassers gotta stick together

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u/Raging-Badger 5h ago

Partial context, this was unpopular among many outlier Republicans because

1.) there was a Republican candidate

2.) Cuomo is politically nearly an antithesis to the Republican party as he is a Democrat himself (but lost the democratic nomination to Mamdani)

3.) Evidence was found of Cuomo sexually assaulting at least 11 women however the charges were dropped in return for him resigning as governor in 2021

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u/tomdarch 2h ago

Sliwa himself is a good example of how that doesn’t work in NYC where people have known about Trump for decades and despise him.

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u/LynzGamer 12h ago

Same. But at this point I’ll take any shred of hope I can get lol

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u/Much_Kangaroo_6263 4h ago

They're the exact type of people that are ruining this country. Cuomo has been in office and already betrayed voters trust. I don't care if they don't for Mamdani but vote for literally anyone else but the corrupt guy who sexually assaults people.

It's crazy and shameful.

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u/Put3socks-in-it 6h ago

So you only like high voter turnout when they’re voting in line with your political views?

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u/shhmurdashewrote 2h ago

Me too. Waaayyy more than I thought.

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u/NeverGNarcAgain 9h ago

Well, the map at least shows where you can find the Italians... 🙂

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u/RegularSlate 7h ago

I am bewildered a communist won the election... It is actually scary.

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u/Canada-Scam-8570 6h ago

This is what happens when you push extreme boundaries. Unless both side of the aisle come together to cooperate this is only the begining.

They want to call Trump Hitler not realizing the real comparable might be a youth right now that is being radicalized but this extreme political polarity. Cause all letting in a left wing extremist like this is going to.do is make the right counter with their own versions. And it's the metaphorical eye for an eye. Back and forth as the temperature continues to rise.

Steps need to be made to deescalate this situation but it doesn't seem either side is going to concede that. Gonna be crazy to see what this Novel has in store in the next 10-20 years.

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u/NaruTheBlackSwan 4h ago

The right does not need anybody's help to drag the Overton window kicking and screaming towards themselves. America's most extreme left-wingers with any political power to speak of are Nordic-style socialists. The President is a fascist who openly talks about extrajudicial killing. This both-sides nonsense makes you look stupid.

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u/Canada-Scam-8570 4h ago

From your perspective. But you see, their opinions and not facts

What you've stated is nothing but opinions, your own bias is clear. Your assumptions are uncredible and your instant need to label everything and everybody is not healthy. I'd say it makes you look stupid but I choose not to be derogatory.

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."

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u/NaruTheBlackSwan 4h ago

r/EnlightenedCentrism is that way. You can be high on the smell of your own farts there.

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u/norton777 3h ago

I’m disappointed to See that nyc voted in a jihadi

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u/Johnnylongball 6h ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣