NYC voters gave Hochul more love than Mamdani at the polls: stats

Big Apple voters turned out for Gov.Kathy Hochul on Election Day — with more New Yorkers casting ballots for the lefty governor than for Mayor Zohran Mamdani last year.

Post-election statistics show that Hochul cruised to re-election with more than 1.5 million votes in the five boroughs on Tuesday, topping the 1.1 million who showed up at the polls last year to send Mamdani to Gracie Mansion.Hochul cruised to victory with more than 76% of the vote, beating GOP nominee Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive who got 468,543 Big Apple votes, or 23.7%, according to unofficial Board of Election tallies.Meanwhile, Mamdani, a former state Assemblyman, won his first mayoral run with 50.8% of the 2025 vote in New York City, albeit with former Gov.Andrew Cuomo, a career Democrat who ran as an independent, siphoning away votes, the stats show.Mamdani, a democratic socialist, celebrated Tuesday’s election victory in Manhattan.Statewide, Hochul received 3.5 million votes, or nearly 60%, while Blakeman had almost 2.4 million votes, for just over 40% of the ballots.

Blakeman, a close ally of President Trump, drew within 6 percentage points of Hochul in September, but the gap widened in the end in the largely Democratic state.Blakeman hammered away at Hochul during the campaign, lumping the governor and Mamdani as the cause of New York State woes like crime, high prices and bloated utility costs....