While New York has nearly 150 neighborhoods, a mere 16 spearheaded Zohran Mamdani’s narrow victory in the city’s mayoral election on Nov. 4, 2025.
Three days earlier, the New York State Board of Elections tallied 4,955,000 active registered voters, of whom 2,056,000, or 41%, voted.
Democratic Socialist Mamdani received 1,036,000, or 50%; Independent Andrew Cuomo, 855,000, or 42%; and Republican Curtis Sliwa, 146,000, or 7%
Only one in five registered voters chose Mamdani.
In the 2021 mayoral election, Eric Adams crushed the hapless Sliwa, 67% to 28%.
The CBS News election map hyperlinked above also provides the number of votes in each neighborhood for the three candidates.
Mamdani’s state assembly district in the western Queens neighborhoods of Astoria and Long Island City is the northern terminal of what journalist Michael Lange has dubbed the
“Commie Corridor.”
He got 45,000 votes to Cuomo’s 18,000.
The southern terminal is Brooklyn’s Park Slope, where the diehard socialist scored 23,000 votes to Cuomo’s 6,000.
In 2023, residents of this radical-chic neighborhood, longtime home to millionaires U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and left wing former Mayor Bill de Blasio (2014-21), had a median family income of $166,000, compared to the citywide $79,000.
Adding Park Slope’s results to those from the six other populous Brooklyn neighborhoods that voted overwhelmingly for Mamdani — Bushwick, Bedford Stuyvesant, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Crown Heights, and Flatbush/Prospect Park South – totals 169,000 votes for him and only 51,000 for Cuomo.
Next, adding the results from Mamdani’s Assembly district to those of four other Queens neighborhoods — Jackson Heights Sunnyside, Ridgewood/Glendale and Springfield Gardens/Jamaica — equals 134,000 votes for him and 67,000 for Cuomo.
And the Manhattan neighborhoods that voted lopsidedly for Mamdani — West Harlem, Washington Heights and East Village — provided the virulently anti-Israel victor with 73,000 votes to Cuomo’s 32,000.
Total votes in these 16 neighborhoods are 376,000 for Mamdani, and 150,000 for Cuomo, or a humongous 226,000 advantage.
His winning margin over Cuomo, the disgraced former Democratic governor of New York, is 181,000 votes.
NYU’s Furman Center provides excellent demographics about the 16 Mamdani strongholds, but its map has much larger districts and slightly different names than those in the CBS map.
During the first quarter of the 21st century, the largest demographic changes in five of these neighborhoods has been a sharp decline in Black residents, from an average of 70% to 42%; and a huge average increase of white residents, from 10% to 29%.
The Brooklyn neighborhoods are Bedford Stuyvesant; Crown Heights/Prospect Heights; South Crown Heights/Lefferts Gardens; and Fort Greene/Brooklyn Heights. Central Harlem is in Manhattan.
According to Fox News exit polls, White voters, 50% of the total vote, favored Cuomo to Mamdani, 47% to 45%.
But Black New Yorkers, 18% of vote, went 56% for Mamdani and 38% for Cuomo
Hispanic voters, 17% of the total, gave Mamdani 52%, and Cuomo 39%.
Asian voters, 11% of total vote, registered a robust 65% for Mamdani, whose parents were born in India, and 30% for Cuomo.
A CNN exit poll finds a vast age chasm in the evenly-split white vote. In the combined 18-44 age cohort, 20% of total vote, Mamdani averaged 64% to 33% for Cuomo.
But among White voters 45 years of age and older, 30% of total vote, Cuomo averaged 56% and Mamdani 33%
In more recent decades, New York City has experienced the growth of college-educated Hispanic Black “hipsters” (I.E., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.) and Asian Black “hipsters” (i.e., Mayor Elect Zohran Mamdani).
While neither the Fox nor CNN exit polls asked about union membership, 693,000 residents of the five boroughs belong to unions.
Of the city’s workforce 20% is unionized, against 10% nationally.
Three days after the election, the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO “celebrated” its members prominent role in Mamdani’s victory.
In the Fox News exit polls, Protestant New Yorkers, 7% of total vote, are the only major religious group who favored Mamdani to Cuomo, 52% to 40%.
Jewish New Yorkers, 16% of the vote, went overwhelmingly for Cuomo, 65% to 31%.
Catholic New Yorkers, 26% of total vote, also went very strongly for Cuomo over Mamdani, 53% to 33%.
Other Christian New Yorkers, 13% of the vote, favored Cuomo, 51% to 40%.
Muslim New Yorkers, 5% of total vote, showered their co-religionist with 92% to Cuomo’s 6%.
Very wisely, Jewish New Yorkers wasted only 3% on Sliwa, but Catholic voters gave him 13%.
Protestant New Yorkers wasted 7% on Sliwa, and Other Christian voters gave him 8%.
Indeed, if three Christian groups had exactly replicated the Jewish splits — Cuomo 65%, Mamdani 31% and Sliwa 3% — Cuomo would have defeated Mamdani 993,000 to 971,000.
In conclusion, Zohran Mamdani has a tenuous mandate from voters in the nation’s most populous city.
But on Nov. 11, the mayor-elect announced that New York can’t thrive without the support of Donald Trump, and the 34-year-old novice astutely stressed the importance of building a fruitful working relationship with the president, who was born and lived most of his 79 years in the city.
Mark Schulte is a retired New York City schoolteacher and mathematician who has written extensively about science and the history of science. Read Mark Schulte’s Reports — More Here.
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