"Late on Tuesday night, newly-minted mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani celebrated his win at the Brooklyn Paramount. The venue was appropriate: Mamdani won more than 50% of the vote citywide but received the most support in Brooklyn, home to New York City's largest population of registered Democrats. Mamdani's next-highest vote share was in Manhattan, where he took 53% of ballots, or 274,802 votes - 100,000 fewer votes than he earned in Brooklyn."
""I can't put myself in everybody's head, but I would say there are a lot of people I've spoken to who want to vote for the Democratic Party," he said. "Even though Cuomo, he does have Democratic values - he didn't just become a Republican or something - there are a lot of people I spoke to that say they want to support the Democratic nominee.""
"Citywide, Mamdani earned more support from Black voters, according to the New York Times, a reversal from the primary. In Brooklyn's Assembly District 58, which includes Flatbush and Canarsie and where 78% of residents are Black, Mamdani won 62% of the vote on Tuesday. He lost that district to Cuomo in June. He also flipped AD60 and gained significant support in AD42, which he won by a slim margin in the primary. But Cuomo won two right-leaning Assembly districts, AD46 and AD49, which Mamdani had taken in the primary."
Zohran Mamdani won more than 50% of the citywide vote, with his strongest support coming from Brooklyn and significant votes in Manhattan. Brooklyn delivered the largest margin, contributing roughly 100,000 more votes than Manhattan. Mamdani gained increased support among Black voters citywide, flipping districts such as AD58 and AD60 and consolidating narrow primary wins in AD42. Some local party figures shifted endorsements toward Mamdani after the primary. Several right-leaning Assembly districts that Mamdani had won in the primary reverted to Cuomo in the general, amid much higher turnout than in the primary.
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