A tale of two election districts: How two District 24 neighborhoods in Queens became Mamdani's best and worst
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani became the first mayoral candidate to break 1 million votes since John Lindsay in 1969 when he convincingly defeated independent candidate Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday, but he also faced record levels of opposition, with Cuomo receiving more votes than any candidate since Rudy Giuliani in 1993.
That divide was particularly evident in Queens, which Mamdani won by 5 points in his worst performance in any borough other than the Republican stronghold of Staten Island.
Mamdani, as expected, performed incredibly well in left-leaning neighborhoods in western Queens, winning neighborhoods such as Astoria, Long Island City and Sunnyside by well over 30 points as voters responded to his calls for free buses, universal childcare and a rent freeze on the city’s 1 million rent-stabilized units.
Cuomo, meanwhile, performed well in neighborhoods like Bayside and Howard Beach as more conservative voters largely rejected Mamdani’s democratic socialist platform.
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