by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo<\/a>, the experts said.<\/p>\nGuardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa is running on the Republican line.<\/p>\n
Experts say the turnout for the New York City mayoral race this year could near 2 million for the first time since 1969. Michael Nigro<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s driving it is we have the most interesting, hotly contested general election for mayor since 2001,\u201d said Evan Roth Smith, a pollster with Slingshot Strategies. \u201cAnd New Yorkers turn out when there\u2019s actually something to vote about.\u201d<\/p>\n
At least 1.9 million voters are expected to vote in the race, topping the 1.5 million who voted when Republican Michael Bloomberg defeated Mark Green in 2021, and believed to be the highest Big Apple turnout since nearly 2.5 million headed to the polls in 1969 to elect liberal John Lindsay.<\/p>\n
This year could come close. <\/p>\n
Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is running as an independent and has the best chance to upset frontrunner Zohran Mamdani. TOMAS E. GASTON<\/p>\n
Queens state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani stunned the city with a Democratic primary win in the mayoral race. James Keivom<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are really going to end with another 100,000 today,\u201d Stephen Graves of Gotham Polling said Sunday. \u201cYou have to figure we are gong to have at least 700,000 votes, and that would push the turnout to 1.8 or 1.9 million, 1.94 million. That is going to be over the 2022 vote in the congressional election.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy the numbers, it\u2019s surprising,\u201d Graves said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be between a congressional election and a presidential election. This one, being near 2 million, is huge.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said while a boost in younger voters is expected to help Mamdani, a socialist Muslim, the higher turnout could help Cuomo, a traditional Democrat running on an independent line.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the turnout gets larger, it leans more moderate and brings in the independents,\u201d Graves said. \u201cThat benefits Cuomo because he was getting more independent while the vast majority of Mamdani\u2019s voters were Democrats.<\/p>\n
Curtis Sliwa, the GOP mayoral candidate for mayor, refused to drop out of the race to give Cuomo a better chance. Lev Radin\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
Pollsters said the monster voter turnout for the mayoral race proves that New Yorkers show up when the race matters. Michael Nigro<\/p>\n
\u201cBut Mamdani can absolutely win with just Democrats,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
He said it\u2019s unlikely that Mamdani will get a majority of all the votes in the three-way race, \u201cso it\u2019s about how that gets split up between Cuomo and Sliwa.\u201d <\/p>\n
Mamdani\u2019s surprise primary win over Cuomo and Mayor Eric Adams rattled political circles, with Republicans and traditional Democrats worried about the Queens state assemblyman\u2019s socialist views.<\/p>\n
Adams dropped out of the race, as Cuomo gained more backers as the best chance to block Mamdani \u2014 and both Cuomo and Sliwa resisted calls to drop out of the race to increase the odds of beating him.<\/p>\n
That has boosted interest in the race, with new registrations peaking at nearly 17,000 a day between January and June compared to just 2,000 in 2021, according to nycvotes.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It could be one for the ages. The turnout for the Big Apple mayoral race is hitting historic…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":351363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5297,5340,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5372,5341,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,26320,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-351362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-andrew-cuomo","10":"tag-curtis-sliwa","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election","19":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-voters","28":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115482750125488852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351362","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=351362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}