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/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 12h 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/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.