Democratic mayoral nominee and Meeting Member Zohran Mamdani led in yet one more ballot of the mayor’s race carried out by Emerson School/The Hill/Pix11. Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025.
Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell
One more new public ballot exhibits Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani dominating the present four-way race for Metropolis Corridor and defeating main rival Andrew Cuomo in a one-on-one matchup — the second in two days to disclose as a lot.
The Emerson School/PIX11/The Hill survey of 600 energetic metropolis voters exhibits Mamdani forward within the present area at 43%, a 15-point edge over Cuomo — the previous Democratic governor operating on an impartial line. The ballot was carried out between Sept. 7-8 and has a margin of error of +/- 3.9%.
Cuomo has 28% help, whereas Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams — a Democrat operating as an impartial — have 10% and eight%, respectively. 9 p.c stay undecided.
It comes a day after a Siena School/New York Instances ballot that confirmed Mamdani with a 23-point lead over Cuomo within the four-way contest, and defeating him by 4 factors in a hypothetical head-to-head battle.
“They are hungry for a politics that puts working people first,” Mamdani instructed reporters. “We saw that over the course of the primary, where we went from 1% in the polls to winning that race by 13 points, with the most votes in New York City history. And we are seeing that right now.”
Mamdani added that his marketing campaign has 60,000 volunteers and expects to quickly have 90,000.
Ballot developments aligning
The Emerson ballot confirmed an identical pattern to previous surveys that Mamdani — a democratic socialist Meeting member — holds an enormous benefit with youthful voters, whereas Cuomo does higher with their older counterparts.
“Mamdani has a 29-point lead over Cuomo among voters under 50, leading 49% to 20%, and that lead tightens to six points among voters over 50, leading 39% to 33%,” mentioned Spencer Kimball, government director of Emerson School Polling, in an announcement.
Mamdani additionally handily defeats all of his opponents in simulated one-on-one contests, the ballot discovered.
Whereas Cuomo comes the closest to the Meeting member in a theoretical two-person race, he nonetheless trails by 7 factors (40% to 47%), with 13% undecided. Mamdani would win with simply over 50% when going through both Adams or Sliwa in one-on-ones — with Adams nabbing 30% and Sliwa getting 28%.
The examined matchups come as each Adams and Sliwa are going through mounting strain from centrist leaders, town’s enterprise neighborhood and, reportedly, the Trump administration to withdraw from the race to spice up Cuomo’s possibilities of blocking Mamdani from Metropolis Corridor.
Adams was reported to be in negotiations with the Trump administration and personal sector corporations over profitable job gives as a prize for ending his marketing campaign.
His spokesperson, Todd Shapiro, confirmed to reporters on Friday that the mayor met with Trump’s Center East envoy, Steve Witkoff, final Tuesday in Florida. The confab was reportedly to debate posts inside the Trump administration, which might embrace a place with the U.S. Division of Housing and City Growth and an ambassadorship to Saudi Arabia.
Though Adams has forcefully denied that he’s in search of different work, he beforehand signaled he was open to it in an announcement final week: “I will always listen if called to serve our country.”
Trump has repeatedly mentioned in current days that he doesn’t need Mamdani — whom he falsely labels “a communist” — to be mayor. One of the best probability of guaranteeing that final result, Trump has mentioned, could be narrowing the sector to 1 candidate who might tackle the frontrunner.
Trump’s aides are reportedly additionally weighing a job supply for Sliwa, although the GOP nominee has mentioned he isn’t .
Spokespeople for Adams and Cuomo didn’t instantly return requests for touch upon the Emerson ballot.
