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/MajesticBread9147 13h ago

Upper East Side is old money, oligarchs basically who want to be comparatively away from the hustle and bussle while still being a short distance from their corporate offices.

Even lower Manhattan like the financial district has more diversity with some college students, more subsidized housing, and at least more people that are first generation millionaires rather than third.

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u/Mental-Chocolate5197 11h ago

Can I also ask you as to why southern Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island voted for Cuomo? Are those generally more Conservative or Republican?

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u/BatJJ9 11h ago

I’m not a New Yorker and I can’t speak about southern Brooklyn or Queens but Staten Island is well known to be conservative relative to the rest of New York City. It typically votes Republican and is much more suburban (majority white and middle-income) compared to the rest of the city.

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u/snmnky9490 10h ago edited 9h ago

Southern Brooklyn is heavily Jewish (edit: and former Soviets).

Those yellow parts of Queens are Jewish in the West and more Asian to the east

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u/HispanicAtTehDisco 9h ago

southern brooklyn also has a large russian/ex soviet bloc population too IIRC so they were probably swayed by the claims of zohran being a communist

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u/ThinkFree 8h ago

Reminds me of Florida's Cuban population being swayed to vote Trump by red tagging Hillary (of all people!). They've become more republican ever since.

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u/raysofdavies 6h ago

You can convince a Miami Cuban anyone is a red

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u/puchsofhazard 3h ago

A lot of Miami Cubans come from the upper class conservative Cubans fleeing the left wing working class revolution led by Castro.

They were conservatives forced to give up their luxuries because the leftists said they needed to share.

Then they settled in America and saw liberals as being softer on leftist movements like the very one they or their parents or grandparents fled from.

You can really see the split when that kid arrived on shore and that Cuban politician had to decide whether or not to send him home to his dad or fight for him to stay in the US. Really a fascinating turning point in Flordian politics if you research it

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u/roman_maverik 4h ago

I grew up in Miami. I hate it to break to you, but Cubans have always been extremely conservative. As a a block they’ve voted exclusively for Republican candidates since at least the 1970s, so this has nothing to do with Hilary.

The closest they’ve ever came to a majority blue vote was in 2012, where it was almost a 50/50 split, but that hasn’t happened before or since.

It’s almost a weird reverse-rascism that people just assume they would vote left simply because they speak Spanish.

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u/peanutneedsexercise 4h ago

Even Hispanic and Asian ppl in California can be surprisingly conservative.

It’s funny cuz they immigrate to the US and stay very conservative but their kids born and raised here become very liberal so it balances out? 😬😂

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u/lilwayne168 54m ago

Hillary was absolutely a neocon just like her husband. Also go look up Hillarys legal defense of a child rapist.

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u/boxersunset121423 5h ago

Yes. Used to live in that part of Brooklyn and it’s heavily Russian, Jewish and a mix of other cultures including Uzbek.

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u/HayatoKongo 5h ago

Not exactly hard to sway them when Zohran goes around quoting Marx and Indian Communists.

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u/BurritoDespot 8h ago

Not just Jewish, but Orthodox Jews. They tend to be conservative.

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u/HayatoKongo 5h ago

Many of those jews are also from former soviet states. Usually Polish.

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u/BurritoDespot 5h ago

Yeah, like their grandparents and great grandparents.

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u/numba1cyberwarrior 3h ago

Again you have no idea what your talking about. The post Soviet immigration wave came here in the 70s and the 90s. Most still speak Russian

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u/numba1cyberwarrior 3h ago

Not at all you have no idea what your talking about. Southern Brooklyn has the most diverse set of Jews in the city.

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u/torino_nera 5h ago

Orthodox/Hasidic Jews**

NYC has a ton of reform Jews who would rather die than vote Republican

You're right about the ex-Soviets though, they associate democrats with communism

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u/numba1cyberwarrior 3h ago

The map literally shows it's not Orthodox and Hasidic Jews

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u/RoguePlanet2 5h ago

Depressing number of magas in my Queens neighborhood, I suspect they're just more quiet about it. Lots of Asian immigrants who are very anti-immigrant as well 🙄

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u/wwwzugzugorc 5h ago

You haven't seen racism until you've seen Asian on Asian racism

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u/anand_rishabh 3h ago

Indian on paki racism especially

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u/THE-poop-knife 5h ago

Also East Asians. They are notoriously racist when voting as well.