NYC mayoral race tightens as Cuomo gains on Mamdani before election

With simply over every week till Election Day, Zohran Mamdani has a double-digit lead within the raucous race for the nation’s most populous metropolis, however former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is narrowing the hole, a brand new ballot reveals.

Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist state lawmaker from the New York borough of Queens who shocked the political world in June together with his convincing victory over Cuomo and 9 different candidates to clinch the Democratic Occasion’s mayoral nomination, is at 44% help amongst doubtless voters in the latest survey within the race, from Quinnipiac College.

Cuomo, who resigned as governor in 2021 amid a number of scandals and is working as an impartial candidate within the common election after dropping the first, obtained 34% help within the survey.

The investigation was carried out from Thursday via Sunday, totally after incumbent Mayor Eric Adams endorsed Cuomo in an effort to defeat Mamdani. The embattled Democratic mayor had run for re-election as an impartial however dropped out of the race late final month, though his title stays on the poll.

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Impartial mayoral candidate, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, left; Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani, heart; and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, proper, throughout a mayoral debate in New York Metropolis, on Wednesday, October 22, 2025. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Occasions/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)

Guardian Angels co-founder Curtis Sliwa, who’s working for Republican mayor within the Democratic-dominated metropolis for the second consecutive election, was polling at 11%. The remaining 4 candidates on the poll obtained 2% help, with 7% undecided and a couple of% polled within the survey declining to reply.

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Mamdani’s 10-point lead over Cuomo is decrease than his 20-point lead within the September Suffolk ballot.

University of Suffolk Political Research Centre director David Paleologos emphasised that “Cuomo’s greatest good points” had been amongst Hispanic voters and independents.

Impartial candidate, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, speaks throughout a mayoral debate, Thursday, October 16, 2025, in New York. (AP Photograph/Angelina Katsanis, pool)

Cuomo has turned up the amount of his criticism of Mamdani throughout the latter a part of the marketing campaign, with dire warnings that “chaos” would comply with a Mamdani victory within the mayoral election.

He has additionally repeatedly highlighted Mamdani’s Muslim religion and criticized his rival for portraying himself as a sufferer due to his religion. Cuomo has argued that Mamdani has insulted Jewish New Yorkers and accused his rival of being anti-Semitic for his feedback opposing the Israeli authorities and calling his assaults on Palestinians in Gaza a “genocide.”

Mamdani lately advised reporters that “we’re speaking a few former governor who, in his final moments in public life, engaged in rhetoric that isn’t solely Islamophobic, not solely racist, however disgusting.”

In the meantime, Sliwa, a longtime fixture in New York Metropolis politics, is the goal of a strain marketing campaign to drop out of the race and arrange a one-on-one matchup between Cuomo and Mamdani, in a frantic effort to avert a Mamdani victory.

Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa is interviewed by Fox Information Digital on August 18, 2025 in New York Metropolis (Paul Steinhauser – Fox Information)

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Amongst these urging Sliwa to finish his bid is billionaire businessman and conservative radio host John Catsimatidis, a number one New York Metropolis Republican and ally of President Donald Trump.

In keeping with the ballot, when given a second alternative, Sliwa voters most well-liked Cuomo over Mamdani by 36%-2%.

“There is just one individual in New York Metropolis whose voters will decide the end result,” Paleologos stated. “And that individual is just not Mayor Adams, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer or any New York billionaire. It’s Republican Curtis Sliwa and his voters who maintain the 11% that forestalls Cuomo from successful the race. Politics has its ironies.’

Ugandan-born Mamdani, if elected, would change into the primary Muslim and first millennial mayor in New York Metropolis’s historical past.

Zohran Mamdani, Democratic mayoral candidate of New York Metropolis, speaks throughout an interview on “The Story with Martha MacCallum” on Fox Information on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, in New York Metropolis. (Evan Agostini/Invisie/AP)

Mamdani swept the Democratic main because of an lively marketing campaign that emphasised affordability and the excessive value of residing in New York Metropolis. It was fueled by a grassroots military of supporters and the help of high nationwide progressive champions, together with Consultant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

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Mamdani cleverly used social media platforms, together with TikTok, to interact low-propensity voters. He proposed eliminating fares on New York Metropolis’s intensive bus system, making CUNY (Metropolis College of New York) “tuition-free,” freezing rents for municipal housing, providing free childcare for kids as much as age 5, and establishing government-run supermarkets.

Mamdani has been closely criticized by his rivals, not just for his far-left proposals, but in addition for his criticism of Israel, his previous damaging feedback in regards to the New York Metropolis Police Division (NYPD), and his proposal to shift sure obligations away from the NYPD and give attention to social companies and community-based applications.