5 takeaways from the 2025 NYC election turnout

"On his way to becoming mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani put together a coalition of well-to-do liberals in Brownstone Brooklyn, working class and immigrant neighborhoods in Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn and Black voters across the city to pull off a decisive victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa on Tuesday. The Center for Urban Research at CUNY put together a detailed results map, which coupled with exit polling from a coalition of major media outlets offers some notable takeaways on voter behavior."

"2 million voters! This mayoral general election saw a stunning 84% increase in voter turnout compared to 2021. The city hasn't seen 2 million voters show up since 1969, when incumbent John Lindsay won on the Liberal line after losing the Republican primary. While 2 million doesn't come close to the 5.1 voters registered in New York City, the surge was remarkable and meant that Zohran Mamdani alone got almost as many votes as the total that were cast in the 2021 general election."

""The turnout itself is off the charts citywide, and there were some interesting turnout increases in interesting areas of the city," said Steve Romalewski, an election mapmaker at the CUNY Center for Urban Research. He said Mamdani's margins in Brooklyn neighborhoods like Park Slope, Bed-Stuy, Bushwick and Greenpoint were similar to what Eric Adams got in 2021, "but the key difference is in many of these election districts, the turnout was two or three times what it was in 2021.""

Zohran Mamdani assembled a coalition of affluent liberals in Brownstone Brooklyn, working-class and immigrant neighborhoods in Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn, and Black voters citywide to defeat Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa. Voter turnout approached 2 million, an 84% increase over 2021 and the highest citywide turnout since 1969. Mamdani alone received almost as many votes as were cast in the entire 2021 general election. Turnout increases were especially pronounced in many Brooklyn districts, where some precincts recorded two- to threefold rises and at least one Borough Park district saw a five-fold jump.

Read at City & State NY