Check here for results as they come in, as Democratic socialist battles disgraced former governor and Republican candidate
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Polls are open in New York City from 6am until 9pm local time. The first results will come in shortly after the polls close and will continue to come in throughout the night. In 2021, most of the votes were counted before midnight, and the Associated Press declared Eric Adams the winner around midnight.
Ever since his win in the Democratic primary, Zohran Mamdani has been the clear favorite to win. Polls aggregated by the New York Times have Mamdani anywhere from five to 25 points ahead of his opponents, Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate, and Andrew Cuomo, who entered the race as an independent after losing in the Democratic primary.
New York had nine days of early voting which ended on 2 November. An analysis of early voting data by the City, a local news outlet in New York, found that more than 732,000 early votes were cast, 65% of the total votes cast in the entire 2021 mayor’s race.
