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<\/a><\/p>\nA screen shows New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani declared the winner during his election night event at the Brooklyn Paramount theater in Brooklyn, New York, on Nov. 4, 2025. (Angela Weiss \/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
At press time, with 75% of the votes counted, Mamdani had 860,327 votes (50.4%), followed by 704,866 (41.3%) for former Democratic state governor Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent, and 128,400 (7.5%) for the Republican candidate, Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels.<\/p>\n
The Republican Jewish Coalition stated that \u201cit\u2019s official. Zohran Mamdani is the face of the Democratic Party now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDemocratic \u2018leaders,\u2019 including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Gov. Kathy Hochul, have handed their party over to what was once the radical left-wing fringe,\u201d the RJC said. \u201cThis is a deeply distressing result for New Yorkers, particularly Jewish New Yorkers, but in fact this election will affect all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Democratic Party \u201cowns this election and all its results, and voters across the country will hold them accountable when they vote in 2026 and 2028,\u201d the RJC said.<\/p>\n
It added that New Yorkers now have \u201ca mayor who will ruin their economy, their education system and their transportation system with communist fantasy policies.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will have a mayor who took money from terror-supporting Islamist organizations for his campaign, who is virulently anti-capitalism, anti-police and anti-Israel, and who will not lift a finger to protect Jewish New Yorkers from the \u2018globalize the intifada\u2019 crowd,\u201d the RJC said. \u201cThis is a dark day for the City of New York, and the Democrats own all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League, stated that in light of the mayor-elect\u2019s \u201clong, disturbing record on issues of deep concern to the Jewish community, we will approach the next four years with resolve.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe expect the mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in the world to stand unequivocally against antisemitism in all its varied forms and support all of its Jewish residents just as he would all other constituents,\u201d the ADL leader said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the months ahead, we will hold the Mamdani administration to this basic standard, and ADL will be relentless and unyielding in our work to ensure the safety and security of all Jewish New Yorkers,\u201d he said. \u201cWe will neither compromise nor relent in our pursuit of our core purpose, to protect the Jewish people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe exit poll shows Mamdani up by about 7. Roughly 47% of the vote. Sliwa dropped a lot, but not enough for Cuomo,\u201d wrote Henry Olsen, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and host of the Beyond the Polls podcast, shortly before AP called the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cMamdani wins every racial and ethnic group, but really wins on the college-plus vote. He beats Cuomo among them by 20% while losing the non-college vote by only 5,\u201d Olsen wrote. \u201cHe loses white non-college voters big, but carries non-white non-college voters by 7.\u201d Olsen added that Cuomo \u201cwins the Jewish vote by only 60-31.<\/p>\n
Jewish community leaders told JNS that civic engagement among their constituencies has reached unprecedented levels.<\/p>\n
Sydney Altfield, national director at Teach Coalition, an Orthodox Union program that pushes for government funding of nonpublic schools, told JNS that her sense, after visiting polling sites in Jewish neighborhoods in four boroughs on Tuesday, was that the election had \u201caccelerated the progress of the last several years in the Jewish community understanding the importance of voting for our interests.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTens of thousands of new Jewish voters have been registered, and we\u2019ve seen engagement in all segments of the community,\u201d Altfield said. \u201cWhen the final numbers are in, we expect record Jewish voter turnout. The lasting impact transcends a single election. It\u2019s a movement, not a moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scott Feldman, executive vice president of the One Israel Fund, which supports Israelis in Judea and Samaria, told JNS that Orthodox Jews in New York City have been motivated by concerns about a Mamdani victory.<\/p>\n
Mamdani has accused Israel of \u201cgenocide\u201d and said that he would have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested if the premier came to the Big Apple.<\/p>\n
\u201cMamdani is very dangerous to the Jewish community,\u201d Feldman said. \u201cHe is a wolf in sheep\u2019s clothing. Unfortunately, there are plenty of Jews who have fallen for his rhetoric, but he is really an existential threat to our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody that I talk to in my part of the city, in Far Rockaway, are very, very concerned,\u201d he told JNS. \u201cThe turnout at our local precinct is almost at the point, and I think by the end of the night it will exceed the amount of votes that were cast last year in the presidential election.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jewish organizations have spent months registering voters and on get-out-the-vote campaigns.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all realize the potential problems of a Mamdani mayoral election,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just about the Jewish community. We all feel that he would be a terrible mayor for the city of New York, for quality of life, for safety and security, for the police, for the real estate and housing industry, for the stock market and everyone who works in the financial industry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although Cuomo had a nearly 30-point lead on Mamdani in the Jewish vote, Jews are just 15% of the electorate, according to Olsen, the polling expert. \u201cNo religions are 23% and Mamdani won them by 52,\u201d he wrote. \u201cHe also won the 14% who practice non-Judeo-Christian religions (14%) by 43%.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only income group Mamdani loses are those making $200,000 or more, and that by only 11%,\u201d he said. \u201cHe barely wins among straight voters by 43-42. But among the 14% who are LGBTQ? He wins by 64.\u201d<\/p>\n