By Gus Saltonstall
Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City, according to multiple publications, including the New York Times and CNN.
The race was called around 9:38 p.m. on Tuesday by multiple news outlets. Here is the breakdown of the vote between Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Sliwa, as of Wednesday morning., according to the New York Times.
- Zohran Mamdani (D): 50 percent (1,036,051 votes)
- Andrew Cuomo (I): 41 percent (854,995 votes)
- Curtis Sliwa (R): 7 percent (146,17 votes)
Mamdani, 34, will become the youngest mayor of New York City in more than 100 years, and also the first Muslim mayor of the five boroughs. He also became the first mayoral candidate for the city since 1969 to hit the million votes mark.
You can watch Mamdani’s full victory speech from Tuesday night — HERE.
There were more than two million votes cast in the New York City mayoral race this year, which is the most since 1969, according to the New York State Board of Elections.
Locally, New York City Councilmember Shaun Abreu won reelection in Morningside Heights and Upper West Side District 7, according to NY1.
- Shaun Abreu (D): 86 percent
- Manual Williams (R): 8 percent
- Edafe Okporo (I): 5 percent
Elsewhere throughout the borough, Upper West Side State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal comfortably won the race to be the next Manhattan Borough President, according to NY1. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg also won his reelection campaign, according to NY1.
Here are the results for those two races, according to NY1.
Manhattan Borough President Race
- Brad Hoylman-Sigal (D): 80 percent
- Seson Adams (R): 17 percent
- Rolando Gomez (I): 2 percent
Manhattan District Attorney Race
- Alvin Bragg (D): 73 percent
- Maud Maron (R): 20 percent
- Diana Florence (I): 5 percent
There are also races for New York City Comptroller and Public Advocate. Mark Levine was declared the winner of the Comptroller’s race by the New York Times around 9:40 p.m. on Tuesday with 74 percent of the vote, and Jumaane Williams was victorious in the Public Advocate race.
Read More: Scenes From Election Day on the Upper West Side
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Lots of luck from Florida, please if you voted for Mamdani please don’t come here even for vacation.
And, please, do not come to NYC. Florida is where you belong.
Congrats on your Zillow estimate a few months from now!
You got that right
One out of every four properties in Florida is for sale. Compare that to the prices here. Then … weep.
Don’t worry they will be bought by NYPD Cops, come on Sam ask around your office, CCRB will fire detectives, and cops. The DEA has already spoke out about Mamdani in fact you probably wrote the statement.
You can keep Florida! And please take Cuomo with you!
Why are you so obsessed with us lol
I’ll never go to Florida. It has too much gun violence and it’s the home of our convicted felon president.
Lmao CLASSIC – isn’t it weird that all the haters convinced NYC is a hellscape live in FL?
Florida has become a haven for New York conservatives who have had enough of New York liberals. We have respect for our Police and Laws. Soon your Cops will be our Cops. My town is starting NYPD at 98k plus 15 k hiring moving bonus.
If you’re genuinely enjoying Florida, you were never a New Yorker and this city isn’t for you.
I don’t expect facts to ever penetrate the thinking of certain people, but the latest available complete annual data shows Florida had a homicide rate of 4.71 per 100,000 people in 2023 while the rate in NYC for the same period was 4.1 per 100,000 residents.
Respect for laws? Make me laugh. Crime in Florida is so bad that when an auction company ripped off my family, the police said it was common practice down there — an everyday occurrence — and no lawyer would bother with the case because the return wasn’t high enough. We just swallowed the loss. Here’s what AI says about it — “Florida has had more homicides than New York in recent years, with a higher population-adjusted rate.
Overall: New York City is generally safer than many Florida cities, such as Orlando or Jacksonville, due to a lower crime index.”
Sam, I am sorry, that happened to your family, I am just concerned for the City, This guy scares the living hell out of Cops, Cuts to OT and CCRB can fire are deal breakers and you have worked around Detectives for many years. Cops I’m talking to are predicting 2000 cops gone before the ball drops. and these are people who know.
Perhaps he’s a snowbird like me?
It’s a little early for that no? I can see wanting to be somewhere warmer in like Jan/Feb but Oct/Nov is peak NYC
Didn’t vote for Mamdani, but no interest in visiting DeSantis-ville, ever.
Ron DeSantis
If you live in Florida, why are you constantly commenting in this blog on our local matters? (And always with a nasty and negative tone?)
You’re in Florida. This doesn’t affect you at all. Why are you even reading the West Side Rag? Anyway, I absolutely voted Mamdani. For one thing, my other choices were a sex pest who had to resign office in disgrace, and a guy who lives in a studio apartment with 16 cats. That made it pretty easy for me.
I do go periodically to Florida because I have a dear friend there, so you’ll just have to live with that. Pretty glad I live in New York, myself.
Toodles! Enjoy the gators, hurricanes, and falling frozen iguanas down there.
Hello from New York. Please enjoy Andrew Cuomo. He belongs with you.
HELLO DAVID,
Wake up cranky!
Good Morning!
Read your newspapers for Cable NEWS
LOL!
Cuomo belongs with his ego.
Good idea. It is better to vacation in the United States.
Why would we ever want to go to Florida?
LMAO‼️🤪
lol please stay there!
I called it ‼️
Democrats sweep all three major races in New York, New Jersey and Virginia
MAMDANI
Our next Mayor of New York City
2028 MAMDANI For president ‼️
Taylor/Travis in 2028. They were actually 35 just in time for the 2024 election but Travis still had football to play.
President? Read the U.S. Constitution. It can never happen.
oh yes it can
Do tell
How about Nobel Peace Prize…if BHO could win one before ever serving, no doubt Mamdani (the boy wonder who’s never had a real job) deserves one.
this “Mamdani has never had a real job” meme is offensive. State Assemblyman is not a real job? And prior to that he was a foreclosure counselor at a not for profit.
I have a feeling that the people who post this meme have the viewpoint that the only “real jobs” are either with Wall Street firms or corporate law. The meme is a viewpoint, not factual information.
😂
You don’t even know the basic rules for eligibility for the Presidency. Says a lot about the NYC electorate in general and the West 80th street residents that elected you in particular.
As a Jew who has lived in NYC for 45 years, I will never live on, or even walk down, West 80th Street ever.
Ari
you ok?
He was born in Uganda
He cannot be president of the US.
He hasn’t served a single day and already your have him running for president. How about rather than anointing him the next best thing we let him serve and see how it goes.
Also, a little thing known as the Constitution prevents him from being President of the United States.
Take a civics lesson Billy. Gotta be born here to run for president. Glad we’ve got an informed voter base out there
Not sure that’s technically correct. I think you only have to be born a US citizen. McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone, iirc, and he was eligible to be President because he was born a US citizen – but he wasn’t “born here.”
Amended the constitution, or just ignore it like Trump! Easy!
1. He hasnt even served at mayor yet. Please consider reserving your comments about 2028 until he’s done something.
2. Assuming hes a good mayor is that enough experience for the presidency?
I’m sure your comments are just enthusiasm but the culture of celebrity in politics is a serious problem. People get caught up in a candidate’s story and suddenly elevate them to levels they have not earned.
Call me cranky. We have too many big personalities at all levels and across the political spectrum . We need help not bluster.
Cranky! LOL
Britney 2028!
He can’t run for president dude lol. Perhaps why there is hope for him as mayor.
Born in uganda
This is true. Even birthright citizenship is in peril these days.
Prayers up for OPOD
Man is crashing out on WSR from Florida lol. Sad life
LET’S GO! Great to see the UWS come together and back our new NYC Mayor, Zohran Mamdani! I’m once again proud to call myself a NYer and UWSer!
Cool. Let me know when you start getting all the free stuff he promised. I’ll wait.
Such foolishness. People like you are going to cost the Democratic Party the Presidency in 2028. Why? Because the party is going to be split. Just what the Republicans want.
Why? NYC is more liberal than the rest of the country so why shouldn’t our representatives be more liberal? National Dems can be more centrist and thats ok
– Transplant
Transplant
I’d just like to take this opportunity to thank Donald John Trump for his kiss-of-death endorsement (of Cuomo). And let’s not forget that Curtis Sliwa had his own small part to play in the outcome. May the ketchup-hurling begin!
(Actually, Mamdani didn’t really need much help.)
salute comrade sliwa… major respect
FYI – this was Trump’s plan all along. He, and the RNC, want Mandami to be the face of the Democratic Party for the next 4 years, for obvious reasons.
Frankly I could care less. The media likes to play up the win as having broader national implications but we’re electing the mayor of NYC not a national political leader
Even with the Sliwa votes going to Cuomo, the numbers would still, though narrowly, favor Mamdani
Hence my “small part” qualifier. Yes, “narrowly” is the key: the margin might have been narrow enough to prompt proven sore loser Cuomo to challenge the count and bog down the process. Who needs that?
Not really, if Cuomo got every single Sliwa vote he still lost. Simple math here.
I think Trump wanted Mamdani to win. To be a whipping boy.
As a resident of the UWS for over 58+ years , , , this might be the hardest loss in my lifetime. Everything Mamdani promised is absurd and unachievable. He was a master at that old phrase, “tell them what they want to hear.” And the sheep, young and old, fell for it!
UWS Resident,
It’s absurd that you call ALL of Mamdani’s promises absurd and unachievable. And I’m not someone expecting him to deliver on every one of his promises.
Cuomo, who lost the primary and didn’t have the grace to simply drop out as Mario did in 1977, promised more of the same, which means someone who has not lived in NYC since the 1980s, and nearly wrecked the subways starting in 2012/13 while governor. This is setting aside Cuomo’s flagrant corruption.
Cuomo attacking Mamdani for living in a rent stabilized apartment killed Cuomo’s chances.
Correction:
I have discovered that Mario did NOT drop out of the race in 1977. He was on the Liberal Party line in the general election, and he received 40 percent of the vote.
Against Koch, I’d have voted for that Cuomo, even if he’d lost the primary. But I wasn’t old enough to vote in ’77 and didn’t live in NYC.
Get over it!
Seriously, this is your response. It’s ok for people to have mixed (or even strong) feelings about this election. I recall reading lots of “the sky is falling” comments on this blog when Trump was elected and responses similar to yours. I didn’t like it then, and I don’t like it now. How about a little civility from all sides.
sky lowkey is falling. we’re never ending this shutdown, or reaching midterms lol
People of your generation thinking they know best is the reason the country is where it is. Time to step aside and let the youngsters have a go.
The youngsters had a go in the last presidential election. They stayed home rather than voting for a black woman. Many of Trump’s biggest supporters are young men. This is not a question of which generation knows best. UWS Resident specifically complained about “young and old.” You decided somehow your generation is about to make everything better. Good luck to you.
So if everything he promised is unachievable, he’ll wind up doing very little as mayor. That’s not the end of the world. We’ve had lots of good and terrible mayors and the city endures.
It’s worse than that…they refuse to believe *his own words* when you quote them, verbatim. You get accused of being a “fascist”, or worse.
This guy is not just a charlatan…his supporters literally just project whatever feelings they have onto him, and refuse to engage with anything he says or does that might be inconvenient to their narratives.
Not everyone who disagrees with you is a sheep. Elevate your thinking and update your rhetoric, boomer.
Proud to not have put in a creepy, misogynistic Trump puppet in charge of a city he doesn’t care about.
Here’s another–and much more likely–take: voters decided that they would like someone fresh and new and who is eager to try new ideas to address inequality and affordability versus someone who has been around for a long time, has lots of baggage, did not offer ideas to address the status quo and was endorsed by Donald Trump.
Too many old and young hippies on the uws.
Im leaving. The transplants can have it. I will watch the news and when one gets hurt i will only laugh and go hang out in my backyard 😂
Happy to see you go! Enjoy DeSantis…
Never said id go to florida. I have family in a swing state 😊 i will be the change I want to see! 😃
Meh. Most upper west Siders are transplants and trust fund babies used to getting free stuff. That’s why they love mandami.
What kind of free stuff? Parks, libraries, or do you mean massive bank bailouts and there sure are a lot of ibanking and corporate law types living on the UWS.
A Mamdani victory speaks volumes about the overall sad state of NY local governance and should provide a ray of hope to the rising generations: should you remain unemployable in the private sector, fear not. Platform and flood the zone with empty slogans, smile until it hurts (i.e., show charisma!) and you, too, can have a political career.
Congrats to our new mayor!
Also worth noting all the housing ballot measures passed, hope to see those speed more housing development throughout the city.
You do realize the housing ballot measures allow the mayor (future ones too) to permit rezoning without any input from the public. And no promises for so-called “affordable” housing. This was Mayor Adams’ idea to promote his own agenda. Maybe Mamdani will do the right thing but I would rather there were some checks and balances on the mayor’s office.
Will he do the right thing? Only time will tell. I found it fascinating that he waited until election day to say how he was voting on those initiatives.
Interesting, but I doubt he’d look to screw over communities
I think you are right but again, time will tell. I truly believe that we need lots of new housing across all areas of the economic spectrum (well, probably don’t need much more ultra-luxury housing). Affordable housing is such loaded term because some affordable housing isn’t even affordable for the middle class. Hopefully these ballot initiatives will allow for a quick more efficient process to get housing built!
Just remember half of your neighbors didn’t vote for this kid. I’m happy to support the win and look forward to what he can deliver on, but it wasn’t the sweeping victory his supporters were confident of.
You ain’t born and raised here.
It was a blow out lol
Since when is 50.4% a blowout? Cuomo managed 41.6% – far better than any of the polls were reporting. It was not a landslide.
“ The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.”
Though a lifelong Democrat, Mamdani, Bragg, and Williams were not my choices. This is a tough morning. I feel a sadness that resembles how I felt when Trump was elected.
But I wish them well and hope they succeed in creating a better NYC. Despite our differences we are still New Yorkers and we are Americans.
Life comes with surprises. May the next four years bring pleasant ones.
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlord.
Haha. Ants from space!
It’s a great day for our city and for America!
LOL!
Sour Grapes, Cuomo 😭
He has no couth and he’s a poor loser, and doesn’t play fair….he didn’t even reach out to Mamdani to congratulate him, Curtis did!
Well, Sliwa at least lives in NYC.
From the Manhattan Institute. Truer words have never been written:
Our recent conversations with fellow New Yorkers have been raw and at times tense—understandably so. Passions are running high because New York City stands at a genuine crossroads. A self-described socialist, Zohran Mamdani, will be the next mayor. As I’ve written elsewhere, Mamdani’s rise tells us something profound about the moment we’re in: a generation of disaffected, downwardly mobile elites is channeling its frustrations into zero-sum politics, animated by grievance rather than the ambition, hustle, and drive that have made our country a beacon of opportunity. His electoral success is not just bad news for the 8.5 million New Yorkers who will suffer under the failed politics of grievance. It is a sign that those politics have a significant constituency, and that our culture is headed in a dangerous direction.
How do you miss the ambition, hustle and drive of the mayor-elect.
Mamdani wasn’t my first choice but lets be real. I don’t think ‘zero-sum politics, animated by grievance’ is at all an accurate description of the campaign he ran and in fact he demonstrated a lot of ‘ambition, hustle, and drive’
Maybe the right-wing think tank Manhattan Institute isn’t describing our new mayor in good faith?
I have to agree. I did not vote for him for a variety of reasons but one thing you have to give him credit for is an excellent campaign. He certainly conveyed hustle and energy, and he used social media as a campaign tool better than any candidate I have ever seen.
Oh puh-leeeze! What a hot, stinking load of Cuomo that is! Grievance? Really? The “conservatives” (i .e., reactionary cranks) spend insane amounts of energy grieving about this, whining about that, prognosticating doom and forced conversion into Muslims’ obvious plot to take over the city and entire world. Yep, you guys sure can’t catch a break. Just look at Bari Weiss. Completely canceled and silenced!!!
(I’ll add “/s” here in case this whooshes over the commentariat’s collective noggin)
An “historic victory” yes but elsewhere The NYT reporters Benjamin Oreskes and Emma G. Fitzsimmons called the results a “monumental victory”
Not a very good characterization of a candidate who won by only 1.7%/34,919 votes … ZM:50.4% to Others:48.7% … in short, nearly half of the voters opposed him. That is an ‘eked out’ win not a “monumental victory”. A real problem for NYT coverage (and us its readers).
Mamdani’s % margin of mandate is not really that much different than President Trump’s who won electorally with an evenly divided popular tally … DT:49.8% to Others:50.2%.
These are not mandates in any way.
The mayor-elect will have to preside over a city in which almost half the voters opposed him.
Wait …. The NY Times is biased … ?
NY Times is fuming at Mamdani victory lol
you don’t seem to know how votes are counted in elections.It’s not one candidate’s total vs. all other candidates combined. The margin is the % of the 1st candidate minus the % of the second candidate. You have no idea how those other votes would have been distributed if it was a 2 way race.
Mamdani defeated Cuomo by 9% and got over 50%. That is a substantial margin and a governing mandate.
Bruce – hear yourself. If you really think that the Sliwa voters would have shifted to Mamdani had Sliwa dropped out by all means believe that. It makes no difference either way as I am NOT arguing that Mamdani would have lost. He won fair and square. MY point is that based on the returns if the Mayor-elect is in a room with 100 representative New Yorkers he would find himself facing 51 people who voted for him and 49 who did not.
That is what he will have to confront.
I think everyone realizes that. Though he did get a majority, not a plurality, so even if we had ranked choice voting, he would have won. Monumental perhaps in the sense of being historic and a lot of firsts.
Now let’s hope he can surround himself with really competent people and they can accomplish something good for the city. And manage to keep Trump out of here.
This isn’t how elections work — if “other options” got more votes, “other options” wouldn’t become mayor. Cuomo was trounced again, and it wasn’t close. If everyone had voted for the Tooth Fairy, the Tooth Fairy would be mayor—this is what you sound like with this fantasy cope.
Kay – no one is arguing that Cuomo was not trounced. He ran a bad, nasty campaign and it is little surprise to me that voters rejected him. MY point is that the Mayor-elect would be smart to always bear in mind that 51% ofNew Yorkers voted for him and 49% did not. Of course he should govern as he promised but he (and we) should recognize that electoral victories are not the same thing as mandates. After all, the President is governing as if having won the votes of 49.8% of Americans means he need pay no mind at all to those whose votes he did not win. He is politically and electorally correct, but it’s bad governance. Hopefully, Mamdani will be fairer.
Stop with the facts.
It upsets people.
Will the toothpaste and detergent be unlocked ?
Will the empty stores now be rented ?
Asking for a friend.
The empty shelves in The People’s Store, will look amazing for the 2028 election ads.
Don’t shop at DR or Fairway, though Fairway’s Tide detergent prices are better than Pioneer’s .
I would not know.
All purchases done on-line and proud of it.
The idea of a store with merchandise will be a thing of the past,
It is only going to be accelerated by the new administration.
You live in Florida. Please stop commenting on things you know nothing about.
Lots of waited fuel in your method of shopping. Also hard to buy lettuce online.
I always have a laugh when I hear people totally overreacting when someone they aren’t fond of gets elected. Calm down, nothing ever happens and nothing really matters. NYC will always be NYC whether your like it or not. As for Cuomo, I think WE ALL can agree its a good thing that “Mr. Touchy” isn’t at the helm!
If we could survive de Blasio and Dinkins, we can survive this guy. Boy, is he in for a rude awakening.
“The people have spoken..and they must be punished.”
-Ed Koch
Though I’ve read he really said “The people threw me out. And now the people must be punished.” Either way its a classic NYC political line that deserves to be remembered.
We get the representation we deserve.
Looks like we Jews are going to have yet another Exodus. This time out of New York City.
Currently accepting applications for the next Moses!
No, they’re not.
New York City has fallen.
One of the factoids that speaks volumes in this race is that not only did Cuomo take Staten Island by ~60%, but that Mamdani BEAT Sliwa there. In other words, Sliwa couldn’t even win the reddest of the boroughs. That said, I have to admit being impressed by some (some) of the things he said in his concession speech, including genuinely wishing Mamdani well and hoping he will truly be a “mayor for all.”
I agree. Sliwa’s biggest mistake was running on the Republican ticket. He and Trump hate each other and have for decades. Curtis is pro-choice, pro-animal rights, and obviously pro law enforcement and pro quality of life. He’s a character and has a true love for the City and always has … despite his flaws and weirdness. I’m surprised more politicians haven’t taken advantage of his personality and willingness to “get out there” and used him for a variety of positions. I think he’s generally a truly decent guy. His mistake this time around was his ticket. He should have run as an independent.
Coumo trounced Mamdani and Curtis in Staten Island
As the old saying goes: “ The antidote to Marxism has always been experiencing Marxism.”
Or to borrow a more famous saying: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken
Can we please raise our discourse above the third-grade level? Despite what’s been written about him in the NY Post or the claims made by his political opponents, Zohran Mamdani is not a Marxist and he isn’t even a socialist! The word socialist is completely misused in U.S. campaign rhetoric, usually intentionally, and is very poorly understood by the vast majority of Americans. Socialism is control of the means of production. That’s not what Mamdani or Bernie Sanders or AOC advocate! “Democratic Socialist” is a made up term to draw attention to the inequities that have emerged from unbridled late-stage capitalism. Wanting billionaires to pay their fair share of taxes, or the minimum wage to be higher, or heath care to be available to everybody, does not constitute Marxism.
this comment section is just spillover from the Post’s or people who’ve had their minds rotted by X
Amazing & disheartening to see all the angry rhetoric from the “liberal, tolerant” UWS residents commenting here. It explains a lot about the state of the world. And our “neighborhood.”
I don’t think you are seeing angry rhetoric from liberal, tolerant UWS residents. Regrettably, I think there are a lot of narrow minded and poorly informed persons who comment on WSR.
The loudest angriest voices usually live in Long Island or Florida
I understand why he was elected. Young people need to feel hope and heard. Women do not want to vote for a person who may have committed sexual assault.
That said, I wished he had a speech that was embracing all people-those who voted for hi and those not. He sounded Trumpian. He is a Sociaiist. I get it but Eugene Debs was a convicted felon. Ok-“all the workers unite” – but come up with more than that for such a diverse city.
He is young and inexperiened with a lot to learn about the workings of government and finance. Very disheartening that the people he is choosing to have work with him are mainly coming from the DiBlasio administration. We know how that worked out…..
Eugene Debs was a great man. He was convicted for labor activity at a time when it still wasn’t legal … he wasn’t a convicted felon like Trump who was convicted for business fraud and ripping people off. You need a few history lessons to know the difference.
I agree with this. On the campaign trail and during interviews, he seemed very much willing to listen and embracing. I thought his acceptance speech last seemed quite the opposite and I was disappointed hearing it.
We must not have heard the same speech. I didn’t come to it as a strong Mamdani supporter, per se, but I read the full transcript of his victory speech this morning and was so impressed with it that I then watched him deliver the full speech on YouTube. I thought it was terrific. I found it to be very inspiring.
And that’s fine. Your take away and mine can be completely different. I was pleased that he called out antisemitism and working with police but to me it sounded like he was talking at us not a talk with us about how we move forward together. I did not vote for Mamdani and am very skeptical about his positions and promises but the one thing that I thought he did well on the campaign trail was seemingly speak from the heart that conveyed a warmth about him and I felt that the speech lacked that quality and lacked a unifying tone.
I know some people thought his digs at Cuomo at the beginning of the speech were a bit much, but that didn’t bother me in the least — Cuomo didn’t even have the decency to call him that night.
“Socialism is a dangerous, but undeclared, enemy of freedom – and I do not just mean the socialist command economy but all those attitudes which socialism fosters:
Dependence, passivity, conformity, envy, lack of personal responsibility and lack of initiative.
The battle against socialism is more than the attempt to replace economic error by economic truth.
It is a battle for moral and spiritual values. It is precisely socialism which promotes universal dependency on the State and the neglect of all primary duties.
In place of the culture of dependency, we must emphasize the moral rightness of enterprise and the absolute value of responsibility.”
-Margaret Thatcher.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.
Margaret Thatcher
Thatcher stole milk from poor children.
They loathe her in Britain
MT was A horrible, horrible person!
saw margaret thatcher, not reading lol. nice try