NYC Mayoral Polls 2025 LIVE: Voters in New York are set to decide the outcome of a generational and ideological clash that could have nationwide ramifications Tuesday when they choose the next mayor of the nation’s largest city.
Zohran Mamdani, 34, who secured the Democratic nomination earlier this year, is running against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, 67, running as an independent and perennial Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, 71, who is hoping to make a big upset.
A victory for Mamdani would make him the city’s first Muslim mayor and its youngest leader in decades, thrusting the democratic socialist into the national spotlight and placing his economic populist agenda on one of the country’s most prominent political stages.
If Cuomo wins, it would mark a remarkable political comeback just four years after he resigned as governor amid multiple sexual harassment allegations.
For Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels crime watch group and a longtime New York media personality, a victory would put a Republican in charge of the nation’s largest city at a time when many residents are looking for leadership who can keep President Donald Trump at bay.
The contest made Mamdani a nationally recognized figure, drawing criticism from Trump and other Republicans who sought to portray him as “the face of a new, more radical Democratic Party.” Trump also threatened to “take over the city” if Mamdani won, as well as “arrest and deport” a state assemblyman who was born in Uganda but is a U.S. citizen, according to the AP. On the eve of the election, Trump reluctantly endorsed Cuomo, warning that Mamdani would cause “disaster” for the city and urging Sliwa supporters to support the former governor instead.
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