Race has gained national attention with Trump threatening to pull federal funds from the city if Zohran Mamdani wins
Race has gained national attention with Trump threatening to pull federal funds from the city if Zohran Mamdani wins
New York City voters are heading to the polls on Tuesday in one of the most closely watched mayoral elections in the city’s history.
Vying for the city’s top office are Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist and state assemblymember from Queens who is the Democratic nominee; Andrew Cuomo, the former Democratic governor running as an independent after losing to Mamdani in June’s primary; and Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate and founder of the Guardian Angels, a non-profit organization dedicated to “unarmed crime prevention”.
Current mayor Eric Adams, who had sought a second term as an independent, dropped out of the race in September.
As of Monday evening, most polls show Mamdani leading by double digits.
In June, Mamdani, whose campaign has focused on affordability, decisively won the Democratic primary, defeating Cuomo – who had been seeking a political comeback after resigning as governor of New York in 2021 amid allegations of sexual harassment (allegations he denies) – by nearly 13 points, and stunning much of the city’s political establishment.
After his primary loss, Cuomo launched an independent campaign against Mamdani.
