Posted on 11/05/2025 5:56:24 PM PST by DoodleBob
Voters came out in huge numbers Tuesday in the New York City mayor’s race, a generational and ideological contest between a Democratic socialist and a former governor that is resonating across the nation.
More than 2 million New Yorkers cast ballots in the contest, the largest turnout in a mayoral race in more than 50 years, according to the city’s Board of Elections.
Zohran Mamdani, who won the Democratic primary earlier this year, faced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was running as an independent, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. With roughly 90% of the votes counted, Mamdani held an approximately 9 percentage point lead over Cuomo.
A victory for Mamdani gives the city its first Muslim mayor and its youngest leader in generations, while elevating the democratic socialist to political stardom and giving his brand of economic populism one of the most visible political perches in America.
Mamdani’s unlikely rise gives credence to Democrats who have urged the party to embrace more progressive candidates instead of rallying behind centrists in hopes of winning back swing voters who have abandoned the party.
Mamdani and Cuomo voted Tuesday morning in Queens and Manhattan, respectively, while Sliwa had already cast his ballot during early voting.
The race made Mamdani a national figure as he has drawn the ire of Trump and other Republicans, who have tried to cast him as the face of a new, more radical Democratic Party. Trump has threatened to take over the city after a Mamdani win, as well as arrest and deport the state assembly member, who was born in Uganda but is a U.S. citizen.
2025: 39.91%; 2,037,183 (as of today)
2021: 23.39%; 1,149,172
2017: 25.52%; 1,166,313
2013: 25.96%; 1,102,400
2009: 28.19%; 1,154,802
2005: 33.34%; 1,315,360
2001: 40.93%; 1,520,443
1997: 40.09%; 1,409,347
1993: 57.50%; 1,898,419
1989: 59.67%; 1,899,845
1985: 41.19%; 1,170,904
1981: 55.67%; 1,305,368
1977: 51.48%; 1,486,536
1973: 50.21%; 1,790,053
1969: 81.21%; 2,458,203
Mamdani’s unlikely rise gives credence to Democrats who have urged the party to embrace more progressive candidates instead of rallying behind centrists in hopes of winning back swing voters who have abandoned the party.
Because national politics follows NYChitty?? This is the same craphole that elected deblasio- twice....
I’m surprised all 30 million NYC residents didn’t vote for the jihadist.
Don’t you love how they use that word “progressive” or “socialist”? It’s a scam word they use to hide themselves. Mamdani is Stalinist, let’s not even get into his support for Islamic terror. He has said once elected he “will seize the means of production” Seize! This guy is an absolute delusional psychopath who thinks the office of Mayor makes him dictator.
POPULATION===OVER 8 MILLION———
ONLY ONE IN 4 VOTED??????
SHAME ON THEM
Well, not all residents are 18+, and/or registered.
The primary reason we won a year ago were because of people like Lara Trump and Scott Pressler....let Pressler build and army of recruiters and heavily fund him the next year....
Probably all the people who died on 9/11 voted yesterday for Mamdani.
Based on Wiki info, I see your point, only a half truth. But that’s what the MSM does best. Most lies are mostly truth to make them believable to the unwashed masses.
The percentage are wrong. But here is more information.
1969. . . . . . 2,458,203. . . . . . 1970. . . . . . 7,894,862. . . . . . 31.14%. . . . . . John Lindsay
1973. . . . . . 1,790,053. . . . . . 1970. . . . . . 7,894,862. . . . . . 22.67%. . . . . . Abraham Beame
1977. . . . . . 1,486,536. . . . . . 1970. . . . . . 7,894,862. . . . . . 18.83%. . . . . . Ed Koch
1981. . . . . . 1,305,368. . . . . . 1980. . . . . . 7,071,639. . . . . . 18.46%. . . . . . Ed Koch
1985. . . . . . 1,170,904. . . . . . 1980. . . . . . 7,071,639. . . . . . 16.56%. . . . . . Ed Koch
1989. . . . . . 1,899,845. . . . . . 1990. . . . . . 7,322,564. . . . . . 25.95%. . . . . . David Dinkins
1993. . . . . . 1,898,419. . . . . . 1990. . . . . . 7,322,564. . . . . . 25.93%. . . . . . Rudy Giuliani
1997. . . . . . 1,409,347. . . . . . 1990. . . . . . 7,322,564. . . . . . 19.25%. . . . . . Rudy Giuliani
2001. . . . . . 1,520,443. . . . . . 2000. . . . . . 8,008,288. . . . . . 18.99%. . . . . . Michael Bloomberg
2005. . . . . . 1,315,360. . . . . . 2000. . . . . . 8,008,288. . . . . . 16.42%. . . . . . Michael Bloomberg
2009. . . . . . 1,154,802. . . . . . 2010. . . . . . 8,175,133. . . . . . 14.13%. . . . . . Michael Bloomberg
2013. . . . . . 1,102,400. . . . . . 2010. . . . . . 8,175,133. . . . . . 13.48%. . . . . . Bill de Blasio
2017. . . . . . 1,166,313. . . . . . 2010. . . . . . 8,175,133. . . . . . 14.27%. . . . . . Bill de Blasio
2021. . . . . . 1,149,172. . . . . . 2020. . . . . . 8,804,190. . . . . . 13.05%. . . . . . Eric Adams
2025. . . . . . 2,037,183. . . . . . 2024. . . . . . 8,478,072. . . . . . 24.03%. . . . . . Zohran Mamdani
I used census info from the nearest decennial except 2024 for 2025.
As bad as Bloomberg and de Blasio were, NYC’s pop grew under their terms.
“There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.” From The Naked City 1948. The population in 1950 was a high of 7,891,957.
I am sure a lot of men disappointingly watched the movie expecting nudity.
What is mind blowing to me is that Rudy is at the top half of the list.
I wonder how many of those votes were legal. James O’keefe had a very interesting video right before the election. The democrats have really destroyed voter integrity in NY.
WTF?
Illegals voted too.
Only 40% voted?
Democrats who have urged the party to embrace more progressive candidates instead of rallying behind centrists.
Communism steps into the spot light takes a bow comrades.
Open borders government backed socialism we have it all.
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