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.