{"id":336868,"date":"2025-10-27T21:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/336868\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T21:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:13:10","slug":"nyc-mayors-race-poll-shows-cuomo-gaining-momentum-cutting-lead-in-half-mamdani-still-up-10-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/336868\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor\u2019s Race: Poll shows Cuomo gaining \u2018momentum,\u2019 cutting lead in half; Mamdani still up 10 points"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa (left), Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, and former Gov. and independent candidate Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n

Photos by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n

The 2025 NYC\u2019s Mayor\u2019s Race appears to be growing a little tighter with a week left before the big general election, according to a new public poll<\/a> released Monday.<\/p>\n

Independent former Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s mayoral campaign is touting major gains on frontrunner Democrat Zohran Mamdani, citing a\u00a0new Suffolk University poll<\/a>\u00a0of the Nov. 4 general election, published on Oct. 27, as evidence that \u201cmomentum is on our side.\u201d The Suffolk survey has the former governor cutting Mamdani\u2019s lead roughly in half compared its last poll in September<\/a>, which had Cuomo at 25%, Mamdani at 45%, Sliwa at 9% and Mayor Eric Adams at 8%.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The latest poll of 500 likely general election voters, conducted from Oct. 23-26, shows Cuomo with 34% compared to the democratic socialist Mamdani\u2019s 44%. Republican Curtis Sliwa comes in third at 11%, with the remaining vote divided among the other four candidates on the ballot (2%), those who are undecided (7%), and those who refuse to respond (2%). The margin of error in the poll is +\/- 4.4%.<\/p>\n

Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa continues to garner a fraction of the vote, and that could ultimately cost Cuomo the mayor\u2019s seat.\n<\/p>\n

The Oct. 27 survey appears to be consistent with other polls <\/a>taken since Adams\u2019 exit,<\/a> showing\u00a0that most of Cuomo\u2019s boost may have come from Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 exit from the race last month<\/a>.\u00a0Adams is still listed on the ballot even though he suspended his campaign and endorsed Cuomo last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cuomo sees momentum, Mamdani sounds caution<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the Cuomo team said on Monday that the Suffolk University poll shows the tide is turning in their favor.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s\u00a0Suffolk University poll shows exactly what we\u2019re seeing on the ground: This is a two-man race, momentum is on our side, and the more New Yorkers learn about how dangerously inexperienced Zohran Mamdani is \u2014 and about his extremist agenda \u2014 the less they like what they see,\u201d Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Azzopardi added that Mamdani was in the same position that Cuomo is now during the Democratic primary, when the former governor was ahead before Mamdani defeated him in an upset on primary night<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Cuomo spokesperson also referenced a Monday report in Gothamist on polling data, which indicated that voters 55 and older made up just over half<\/a> of the 160,000-plus New Yorkers who cast early ballots over the weekend.<\/p>\n

When Mamdani was asked about the story during a campaign stop on Monday, he told reporters he continues \u201cto be confident in our campaign.\u201d However, his campaign sent an email on Monday afternoon telling supporters, \u201c[W]e cannot let complacency undo the work we\u2019ve done,\u201d while urging them to sign up to canvass and to vote.<\/p>\n

Mamdani campaign spokesperson Dora Pekec, however, expressed confidence that New Yorkers were ready to \u201cturn the page\u201d on Cuomo.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Yorkers across this city are ready for change and we hope they\u2019ll join our army of 90,000 volunteers and growing to keep talking to friends and neighbors and knocking on doors to win a city we can all afford,\u201d Pekec said.<\/p>\n

According to the poll, Cuomo\u2019s most significant gain was with Hispanic voters, whom he now leads by 1%, compared to a 30% deficit he faced with them last month. Furthermore, he now leads with Independent voters by 10%, a big swing from being underwater with them by 18% in September.<\/p>\n

But while the poll shows Cuomo and Mamdani with similar favorability levels, 42% to 46% respectively, the former governor has higher unfavorables than the Democratic nominee \u2014 47% to 37%.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pollster: Sliwa has \u2018outsized impact on the outcome\u2019<\/p>\n

David Paleologos, director of Suffolk University\u2019s Political Research Center, said in a statement that the survey shows what Cuomo\u2019s campaign has long argued: that Sliwa\u2019s continued presence in the race is blocking him from overtaking Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is one person in New York City whose voters could have an outsized impact on the outcome,\u201d Paleologos said. \u201cThat person isn\u2019t Mayor Eric Adams, U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, or any New York billionaire. It\u2019s Republican Curtis Sliwa, whose voters hold the 11% blocking Cuomo from winning the race. And when asked for their second choice, those voters preferred Cuomo over Mamdani 36%-2%.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sliwa has continually resisted calls<\/a> from Cuomo and other moderates to bow out of the race, implying that only his own death would result in his no longer running.<\/p>\n

The Sliwa campaign has not yet responded to amNewYork requests for comment about the poll.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa (left), Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, and former Gov. and independent candidate Andrew Cuomo. Photos…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":336869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[40294,5229,5297,13572,5340,5288,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,166570,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-336868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-2025-mayors-race","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-andrew-cuomo","11":"tag-assembly-member-zohran-mamdani","12":"tag-curtis-sliwa","13":"tag-mayor-eric-adams","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-suffolk-university-poll","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115448198960580381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}