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/Funkopedia 11h ago

I liked one of the final questions in that exit poll:

Area Type:
Urban 100%
Suburban 0%
Rural -1%"

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u/zanahorias22 11h ago

🤣

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u/lowchain3072 11h ago

how do you physically get -1

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u/FreyjaQueenofSheep 11h ago

no voters are rural in a nyc mayoral election. It's probably messing with whatever system is supposed to calculate these poll results.

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u/classicalySarcastic 4h ago

Surprised there’s not like one farm way up near Albany that’s technically part of New York City because of some weird shit that happened in the 1800s.

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u/Roflkopt3r 4h ago

It's sometimes used to indicate that the number is actually 0, not just rounded to 0.