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Former Gov. and independent mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo (top left), Republican Curtis Sliwa (bottom left), and Democratic nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n
Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n
A new survey from Marist College released on Thursday showed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo gaining ground<\/a> on Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani \u2014 but it also indicates Mamdani is inching closer to securing majority support among voters.<\/p>\n The Marist poll, released at midnight Thursday, gives Mamdani a 15-point edge on Cuomo among likely voters with less than a week until the Nov. 4 general election and amid early voting. Cuomo has gained six points on Mamdani based on Marist\u2019s last poll in September<\/a>, taken while current Mayor Eric Adams was still in the race, which showed Mamdani held a 21% lead over Cuomo.\u00a0<\/p>\n The survey of 1,134 adults, including 792 likely voters, conducted from Oct. 24-28, has Cuomo with 32% support, Republican Curtis Sliwa with 16%, and 3% still undecided among likely voters.\n<\/p>\n Two other surveys released this week \u2014 one from Suffolk University<\/a> and the Quinnipiac University<\/a> \u2014 both had Cuomo 10 points behind Mamdani, but gaining votes from previous surveys. Yet the new Marist poll bucks some trends in the Suffolk and Quinnipiac surveys.\u00a0<\/p>\n For starters, the Marist poll also has Mamdani \u2014 a democratic socialist Queens Assembly member \u2014 closer to winning a majority in the three-way contest than other recent polls. It has him with 48% support among likely voters, compared to the other surveys, where he has registered between 43% and 44%.<\/p>\n And while the Suffolk and Quinnipiac polls had Cuomo with strong support among Republicans, nearly six in ten Republicans (59%) support Sliwa, while 33% of them back Cuomo, according to the poll.\n<\/p>\n That stands out in stark contrast to Wednesday\u2019s Quinnipiac poll; Cuomo held a one-point advantage with Republicans over Sliwa, a data point his team sought to highlight. Cuomo has tried during the general election to win over Republican voters, arguing that electing a moderate Democrat like himself would be far better than allowing a democratic socialist like Mamdani to win.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Marist poll comes amid ongoing early voting, with more than 300,000 New Yorkers having already cast their ballots, and preliminary data indicating that many of them are older<\/a> \u2014 which would appear to be a promising sign for Cuomo.<\/p>\n Since Adams dropped out,<\/a>\u00a0Cuomo has appeared to pick up some support from his exit, as they have overlapping moderate constituencies.<\/p>\n The latest poll found that if Sliwa were to drop out, Mamdani\u2019s lead over Cuomo would shrink to 7 points \u2014 but he would still win 51% to 44%.\u00a0Sliwa has repeatedly said he has no intention of dropping out<\/a>.<\/p>\n