Zohran Mamdani Wins New York Mayoral Race with Highest Vote Count in 60 Years

Zohran Mamdani has achieved a historic victory in the New York City mayoral election, securing the highest number of votes in six decades.

After counting 91% of the votes, results show that Mamdani received over 1 million votes (50.4%), while his closest rival, independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, garnered around 850,000 votes (41.6%). Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa finished a distant third with 146,137 votes (7.1%).

This means Mamdani won by a margin of nearly 150,000 votes over his nearest competitor.

According to the final tally, Mamdani received 1,036,051 votes — the highest number recorded for any New York City mayoral candidate since 1965. That year, Republican John Lindsay won with 1,149,106 votes.

City election records show that even Lindsay’s total was lower than those of his predecessors: Democratic Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. received 1.2 million votes in 1961 and more than 1.5 million votes in 1957 — still the all-time record for a New York City mayoral election.