As Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani brings an bold agenda to Metropolis Corridor, a post-election evaluation reveals how Black and Brown voters, in addition to youth, supported him on the poll field.
Typically talking, the 2025 mayor’s race within the main and basic elections raked in an enormous variety of voters, breaking data in comparison with earlier years. The New York Metropolis Board of Elections (BOE) estimated that greater than 2 million voters confirmed as much as the polls; in 2021, about 1.1 million ballots have been solid in all the election.
“It jogs my memory loads of what occurred with David Dinkins in 1989, the place you had a really bitter main towards somebody who — Ed Koch — who had been round for a really very long time. He was a third-term incumbent,” mentioned Michael Lange, author and political analyst, in a roundtable concerning the election hosted by Very important Metropolis and the NYU Wagner Graduate College of Public Service. “After which an equally bitter, if no more fraught, basic election, the place the successful coalition will get over 50% — has all this enthusiasm, will get probably the most votes in X variety of years.”
Dinkins, the town’s first Black mayor, appealed to working- and middle-class New Yorkers with a labor-led coalition that included renters, immigrants, and racial and ethnic teams asserting their political energy, mentioned Lange. Equally, Eric Adams, the town’s second Black mayor, had large assist from Black and Latino voters, unions and labor coalitions, reasonable voters, and police teams throughout his run for workplace in 2021’s mayoral race.
A key demographic that confirmed as much as the polls for Mamdani this yr throughout the board have been youthful voters. In response to the Related Press (AP) voter ballot, about 75% of New York Metropolis voters beneath 30 solid a poll for Mamdani. Voters between the ages of 30 and 44 additionally skewed extra towards Mamdani, whereas former Governor Andrew Cuomo did higher with voters 45 and older.
“I additionally assume Cuomo’s flirtation/truce with Trump — no matter you need to name it — actually did him no favors,” mentioned Lange.
To interrupt down ballots solid by borough, Mamdani earned votes within the Bronx, Manhattan, components of Queens and Brooklyn, and Staten Island’s North Shore, based on the Middle for City Analysis at The CUNY Graduate Middle election map. Adams had an identical demographic breakdown in 2021.
Cuomo scored with most of Staten Island, massive areas of Brooklyn and Queens, and scattered components of the Bronx and Manhattan.
“The three most sturdy Democratic constituencies are younger, college-educated, extra ideological voters — these form of older voters who contemplate themselves to be very liberal and even progressive, in locations like Brownsville, Brooklyn, or the Higher West facet,” continued Lange. “After which it’s additionally the Black voters — staunchly anti-Trump. These three coalitions actually got here collectively … and that’s, I might say, not solely the center of the Mamdani coalition, but in addition the center of the Democratic Celebration.”
Within the 2025 June main, Mamdani dominated in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and components of Queens. Taking criticism to coronary heart, he campaigned in Black and Latino communities more durable because the Democratic nominee over the summer season. He received over many supporters who had initially backed Cuomo or Adams out of the gate, in addition to working-class immigrant neighborhoods that had “swung dramatically for Trump” throughout the presidential election in 2024, mentioned Lange.
In census areas of the 5 Boroughs with predominantly Black voters for the overall election, Mamdani received massive. These particular person neighborhoods confirmed important assist for him.
South Jamaica, Hollis, Baisley Park, St. Albans, Springfield Gardens, Laurelton, Brookville, Rosedale, Cambria Heights, Far Rockaway, Edgemere, Somerville, Arverne, and components of Holliswood, Queens Village, Lefrak Metropolis, Queensbridge, and East Elmshurst in Queens.
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Ocean Hill, Crown Heights, Brownsville, East New York, New Tons, East Flatbush, Starrett Metropolis, Canarsie, Flatlands, Flatbush, Wingate, and components of East Williamsburg, Fort Greene, Gowanus, Purple Hook, and Coney Island in Brooklyn.
Wakefield, Eastchester, Edenwald, Williamsbridge, Olinville, Baychester, Parkchester, components of Co-op Metropolis, Fordham, Belmont, Mount Hope, Morris Heights, Tremont, Claremont, Fortress Hill, Soundview, Crotona Park, Concourse, Highbridge, Morrisania, Mott Haven, and Melrose within the Bronx.
East Harlem, Washington Heights, Morningside Heights, Hamilton Heights, Sugar Hill, Central Harlem, and West Harlem in Manhattan.
Mariner’s Harbor and Arlington, Port Richmond, West Brighton, St. George, Tompkinsville, and Stapleton on the North Shore.
Areas with predominantly Hispanic voters had some overlap however have been largely concentrated in neighborhoods similar to:
Sundown Park, Williamsburg, Bushwick, Cypress Hills, and Highland Park in Brooklyn.
Arlington, Port Richmond, Tompkinsville, and Stapleton on SI.
The Decrease East Aspect, Higher West Aspect, Manhattanville, East Harlem, Inwood, Marble Hill, and Washington Heights in Manhattan.
Woodhaven, South Ozone Park, Richmond Hill, Kew Gardens, Ridgewood, Jackson Heights, Corona, East Elmshurst, Elmhurst, and components of Sunnyside, and Astoria in Queens.
Mott Haven, Huntspoint, Melrose, Longwood, Concourse, Highbridge, Morrisania, Mount Hope, Mount Eden, Morris Heights, Tremont, East Tremont, Fordham, Kingsbridge, Bedford Park, Norwood, Belmont, Soundview, Bruckner, Fortress Hill, Clason Level, Morris Park, Pelham Parkway, Van Nest, Allerton, Woodlawn, and Olinville within the Bronx.
Amongst predominantly Asian voters in Staten Island, southern Brooklyn, decrease Manhattan, and northern Queens, Cuomo did very nicely. Nevertheless, Mamdani did get Asian voters in Chinatown in Manhattan, Fortress Hill within the Bronx, Sundown Park and Kensington in Brooklyn; in his state meeting district (36) of Lengthy Island Metropolis, in addition to Woodside, Jamaica, and Richmond Hill in Queens.
As the town’s first Muslim mayor, Mamdani naturally received the overwhelming majority of Muslim voters within the basic election. About 90% of Muslim voters supported Mamdani, mentioned the AP Voter Ballot, though they make up about 4% of the town’s total eligible voters.
Many of those Muslim New Yorkers reside in neighborhoods like Parkchester, Norwood, and Westchester within the Bronx; Graniteville, Arlington, and Park Hill on Staten Island; Kensington, Ditmas Park, Bay Ridge, Bathtub and Brighton Seashore, East New York, and a small a part of BedStuy. The bulk are situated in Ozone Park, South Ozone Park, Richmond Hill, Jamaica, Briarwood, South Jamaica, Jamaica Hills, Holliswood, Queens Village, Bellerose, Glen Oaks, Contemporary Meadows, Sunnyside, Queensbridge, Elmhurst, Woodside, and Jackson Heights in Queens.
