2025 New York City mayoral election — results record
Published: retrieved 2026-08-13 | Source: reporting
Summary
The wiki’s largest hard-number gap — the general election that made zohran-mamdani mayor — filled with a full results tabulation. On November 4, 2025, Mamdani won an outright majority in a three-way race, defeating former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (running on an independent “Fight and Deliver” line after losing the Democratic primary to Mamdani) and Republican Curtis Sliwa. Turnout was the highest for a NYC mayoral election since 1969, and Mamdani was the first mayoral candidate since 1969 to clear one million votes.
Key Claims
Certified/tabulated general election result, 2025-11-04:
| Candidate | Line | Votes | Pct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zohran Mamdani | Democratic | 1,114,184 | 50.78% |
| Andrew Cuomo | Fight and Deliver (independent) | 906,614 | 41.32% |
| Curtis Sliwa | Republican | 153,749 | 7.01% |
- Margin: Mamdani over Cuomo by 9.46 points / 207,570 votes.
- Total ballots cast: 2,218,647.
- Registered voters: 5,103,941. Turnout: 43.47%, up 20.08 points from 2021.
- Mamdani carried all five boroughs.
- First NYC mayoral race since 1969 to draw more than two million votes; first candidate since 1969 to exceed one million votes.
Connections
Entities mentioned: zohran-mamdani, democratic-party, dsa Concepts referenced: democratic-socialism, rent-freeze Events: 2025-nyc-mayoral-general
Contradictions / Tensions
- Feeds does-socialism-win-elections on the pro side with the strongest available datum: a majority, not a plurality, on record turnout — the counter to the “only wins low-turnout primaries” argument.
- Note the split-line detail is incomplete here: Mamdani’s Working Families Party line votes are not broken out in the retrieved text, so the 1,114,184 figure should be read as his Democratic-line total unless a BOE source confirms it is the combined total. Flag for reconciliation against the NYC Board of Elections certified canvass.
Notes
Tertiary encyclopedia source, not original reporting — recorded as genre: reporting because the schema has no encyclopedia value. Numbers here should be re-verified against the NYC BOE certified results page when one can be fetched; AP-sourced outlets (NBC, NPR results apps) returned 403 or carried no tabulated numbers.