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Early Voting Ends With Record 735,317 Ballots in Tightening Three-Way NYC Mayor’s Race

The surge elevates turnout forecasts, leaving Zohran Mamdani’s narrowing lead sensitive to Election Day shifts.

While 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani comes from an Indian lineage, his wife, Rama Suwaji, is of Syrian descent.
On the final day of early voting, voters wait on long lines to vote at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan (left) and a city recreation center in Red Hook, Brooklyn (left) on Sunday. (Andrew Julien; Gardiner Anderson / New York Daily News)
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Overview

  • The New York City Board of Elections reported 735,317 early ballots, more than quadruple 2021’s total and the highest on record for a mayoral race.
  • Recent polls still place Zohran Mamdani first, with some surveys showing a slimmer edge over Andrew Cuomo while others maintain a double-digit margin, and Curtis Sliwa in third.
  • Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent after losing the Democratic primary, emphasized experience in church and media stops as he argued Mamdani’s proposals lack feasibility.
  • Republican Curtis Sliwa continued an active schedule across the boroughs, rejected calls to exit the race, and vowed to keep pressing his message.
  • Analysts project overall turnout could approach 1.9–2.0 million as late youth participation ticked up; campaigns leaned on expansive ground operations and heavy pro-Cuomo super PAC spending targeting Mamdani.