Opinion: What We Can Learn From the First Poll of Latino Voters in NYC's Mayoral Race

"A new poll in the New York City mayoral race just landed. This is the first poll focused exclusively on New York City Latino voters in this electoral cycle, and will likely be the only one: few polls are ever taken to take the pulse of the issues important to Latino voters and the candidates they prefer. The Hispanic Federation, which commissioned this poll, must be commended for this admirable and needed work."

"However, the nuances in voting patterns across boroughs and neighborhoods that I describe in that column point to the fact that, "Latinos are not homogeneous. We do not fit any once-size-fits-all formulations. Latinos are quite diverse in cultural variety, countries of origin, language nuances, and political philosophies." Thus we find that this variety manifests itself in particular voting patterns: for example, Queens and Manhattan Latino voters supported Mamdani in higher numbers than Latinos in the Bronx."

A poll commissioned by the Hispanic Federation focused exclusively on New York City Latino voters and likely represents the only such poll in this electoral cycle. The findings indicate why a plurality of Latino voters supported Zohran Mamdani in the primary and why many remain supportive into the final campaign stretch. Mamdani won a plurality in majority-Latino election districts during the mayoral primary. Latino communities show substantial diversity across culture, country of origin, language, and political philosophy, producing different voting patterns across boroughs and neighborhoods. Queens and Manhattan Latinos backed Mamdani at higher rates than Bronx Latinos. A separate August poll by Adam Carlson and Amit Singh Bagga found similar patterns and differentiated Latinos by country of origin.

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