Zohran Mamdani, overwhelming vote among young women in New York: 84%. Who exactly were the voters of the new mayor of the American metropolis

Young Socialist Democrat Zohran Mamdani's victory was fueled by record turnout and enthusiasm among progressives and young people, and the vote of the educated, the non-religious and the middle- and upper-middle-income in general, CNN and NBC polls show.

Preliminary results from the New York Election Commission show Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old politician, won the election with 50.4 percent of the vote, ahead of Democrat Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa.

According to the NBC News poll, 84 percent of women between the ages of 18 and 29 who turned out to vote supported Mamdani.

The poll shows that 67% of men in the same age group also voted for him.

In general, voters under 50 strongly supported Mamdani, while those over 50 voted for his opponent, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Mamdani won in most demographic groups, leading among both men and women, as well as among voters who identify as “very liberal,” with 84% of them supporting him.

Cuomo narrowly won the white New York vote, 46 percent to 45 percent. White men, in particular, preferred Cuomo 49 percent to 42 percent.

But Mamdani won the black (57% to 38%), Hispanic (52% to 39%) and Asian (62% to 32%) votes.

And religion divided the New York runners. Cuomo won the vote of voters who declared themselves Catholic, Protestant or Jewish. Mamdani won, by a very large proportion, that of New Yorkers of “other religion” or that of the non-religious.

Cuomo and Mamdani got about the same number of votes from straight voters. But among the 14% of voters who identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans, a large majority – 82% – voted for Mamdani. Only 15% voted for Cuomo.

How the votes were divided by education and income

Education also played a role. Mamdani won the vote of college graduates 57 percent to 38 percent, while Cuomo won the vote of New Yorkers without a college degree 47 percent to 42 percent.

According to polls, Mamdani won the majority of votes among adults with incomes between $30,000 and $299,999 a year.

The poorest and the richest alike preferred Cuomo.

Mamdani also scored well among recent movers to New York. He won 85% of the vote from voters who had lived in the city for five years or less, and his support steadily declined as length of stay increased.

Cuomo received greater support among lifelong New Yorkers.

Mamdani's voters said they were primarily concerned with the cost of living in New York, while Cuomo's voters were more interested in crime and immigration.

Mamdani's voters were much more likely to say that crime was not a problem in the area where they lived.

How the votes were distributed by district

As expected, writes Politico, Mamdani won the progressive strongholds of Brooklyn and dominated the Brooklyn-Queens coastal area, known as the “communist corridor,” according to a map published by the New York Times.

He clearly won in the left-wing areas of Manhattan. And unlike his victory in the June primary, Mamdani convinced black voters in Brooklyn, Queens and northern Manhattan to abandon Cuomo and beat the former governor in the Latino communities of the Bronx.

But his coalition, Politico writes, had important gaps.

Manhattan's Upper West and Upper East Sides, posh and politically active neighborhoods with large Jewish communities, gave Cuomo a surplus of votes and propelled him to a 10-percentage-point lead over Mamdani.

The former governor also won in the predominantly Jewish areas of Brooklyn. His efforts to steal Republican voters from Sliwa paid off: He won swaths of Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens, home to conservative voters angry at Mamdani's expected victory.

Polls conducted before the election and exit polls taken immediately after the election revealed a consistent trend: A significant number of Cuomo supporters voted for the former governor not because they liked his ideas, but because he was the best hope to stop Mamdani.