Final week’s Main Election drew greater than 1 million voters throughout the town, and greater than 500,000 Brooklynites — greater than in every other borough — headed to the polls to make their voices heard.
Per week later, the ranked-choice outcomes have been finalized: Zohran Mamdani is formally the Democratic mayoral nominee, having raked in 56% of vote within the third spherical of ranked-choice voting. Former governor Andrew Cuomo, who had been the frontrunner to win the race, trailed behind with 44%.
The outcomes have been pretty clear even on Election Day, as Mamdani emerged with 43.5% of the vote, sufficient for Cuomo to name and concede earlier than the ranked-choice course of was full.
How the mayoral candidates fared throughout Brooklyn
In Brooklyn, Mamdani dominated the mayoral major, incomes 50% of the Election Day vote to Cuomo’s 32%, in accordance with unofficial Board of Elections outcomes. Comptroller Brad Lander, a former Park Slope Council Member, earned 12% of the vote in his house borough.
Mamdani’s strongest assist got here from northern and central Brooklyn, from Greenpoint to components of Flatbush.
The Democratic socialist earned the best share of votes — 75% — in Meeting District 53, which incorporates East Williamsburg and Bushwick; he earned essentially the most votes – 20,098 — in AD57, comprising Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and components of Mattress-Stuy in Crown Heights.
Queens Meeting Member and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at a June rally in Sundown Park. File photograph by Gabriele Holtermann
These districts even have significantly various populations. Based on U.S. Census knowledge, in AD57, about 40% of residents are white, 31% are Black, 7% are Asian, and 14% are Hispanic. In AD53, about 48% of the inhabitants is Hispanic, 31% is white, 10% is Black, and eight% is Asian.
However he additionally gained in a few of southern Brooklyn’s extra conservative-leaning districts the place Republicans have in recent times unseated longtime native Democratic politicians — even though these districts largely have extra registered Democratic voters than Republicans.
In AD46, which incorporates components of Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Gravesend, Seagate, Coney Island, and Brighton Seaside, and is represented by Republican Meeting Member Alec Brook-Krasny, Mamdani earned 43% of the vote to Cuomo’s 36%. In AD49, which covers components of Sundown Park, Bensonhurst, and Dyker Heights and is represented by Republican Meeting Member Lester Chang, he gained 56% of votes.
Cuomo, in the meantime, discovered his footing in Orthodox Jewish communities and with assist from Black voters within the southeastern a part of the borough.
Cuomo earned assist in components of southern Brooklyn. File photograph by Lloyd Mitchell
He earned the best variety of votes — 9,426 — and the best share — 78% — in the identical district, AD48, which covers Midwood and Borough Park and is represented by conservative Democrat Simcha Eichenstein. Cuomo additionally carried Sheepshead Bay, Madison, Coney Island, Brighton Seaside, Manhattan Seaside and Gravesend.
Native Jewish leaders largely endorsed Cuomo, and that assist was mirrored in his numbers in Borough Park, Midwood, and South Williamsburg.
Throughout the town, Cuomo earned extra assist than Mamdani from Black voters, and he gained in a number of of Brooklyn’s predominantly-Black neighborhoods. In AD58, which covers Flatbush and Canarsie and the place 78% of residents are Black, he earned 61% of the vote. The numbers have been related throughout AD59 and 60, which cowl Canarsie, Flatlands, Georgetown, Mill Basin, East New York, and Starrett Metropolis and are each majority-Black.
The destiny of native candidates in citywide races
Lander wasn’t the one native pol to tackle a citywide election, as present Brooklyn Council Member Justin Brannan threw his hat within the ring for Comptroller.
Neither candidate gained their major — however each loved pretty robust assist in Kings County.
Justin Brannan concedes the election for New York Metropolis Comptroller. Picture by Gabriele Holtermann
Lander, who cross-endorsed Mamdani days earlier than the first, earned about 11% of the vote citywide and 12% in Brooklyn. Whereas he didn’t outright win any districts, his former constituents threw their assist behind him, and he earned 29% of the vote in AD52, which incorporates his former stomping grounds of Park Slope, Gowanus, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights and Carroll Gardens.
In the meantime, Election Evening totals confirmed that Brannan earned extra votes in Brooklyn than in every other borough, and that Brooklyn was the one borough the place he outperformed Mark Levine, who finally gained the first.
What comes subsequent?
The profitable candidates in each citywide and native primaries at the moment are dealing with the overall election in November. Whereas Cuomo misplaced the Democratic major to Mamdani, each he and Mayor Eric Adams plan to run within the basic as independents, Curtis Sliwa will seem on the Republican celebration line.
Levine, in the meantime, will run in opposition to Republican Peter Kefalas. Regionally, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso — who gained the Democratic major by a landslide — is anticipated to face Republican Janine Acquafredda. A lot of Brooklyn’s council races can be uncontested, although a contentious contest is anticipated in District 47, the place Democrat Kayla Santosuosso and Republican George Sarantopolous will compete for Brannan’s present seat.
