As former Gov. Cuomo made his closing case to voters forward of Tuesday’s election, he touted the outcomes of a brand new ballot that present him edging nearer to Democratic socialist Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani within the race for mayor.
In response to an AtlasIntel ballot launched late Friday, Mamdani remains to be main the three-man race with practically 41% of the 1,587 seemingly voters canvassed, however Cuomo is catching up with 34%.
Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa is in third place with 24%.
The polling outcomes come as lots of of hundreds of New Yorkers have already voted early in Tuesday’s mayoral election.
“The hole is closing quick — we will really feel it on the bottom all over the place from the Bronx to Staten Island,” Cuomo mentioned in a press release Saturday. “At this charge, we win the race.”
The polling outcomes additionally got here the evening earlier than Cuomo visited Queens, the place he was grand marshal within the seventh Annual We Can As a result of We Know We Can Parade in Cambria Heights. He was additionally anticipated to greet voters in Jamaica, Queens and Brownsville, Brooklyn, as he continues to courtroom Black voters.
Following a marketing campaign cease at Rev. Al Sharpton’s Nationwide Motion Community, Mamdani shrugged off the brand new ballot.
“I’m not fearful in any respect. I proceed to be assured, however I by no means let that confidence grow to be complacency,” mentioned Mamdani, who believes the massive turnout of early voters equates to New Yorkers wanting a change within the metropolis’s management.
“Once you truly go on the market and communicate to New Yorkers your self, you’ll discover the momentum continues to develop, and it’s a momentum of younger voters, of older voters, a momentum of New Yorkers who’re hungry for change, and we’re excited to see, particularly yesterday, what number of New Yorkers got here out to vote,” he mentioned Saturday.
Atlas Ballot
2025 New York Metropolis Mayoral Election
Within the race for NYC mayor, Zohran Mamdani (D) leads Andrew Cuomo (I) by 6.6pp and Curtis Sliwa (R ) by 16.5pp. pic.twitter.com/wiCrRaYDpo
— AtlasIntel (@atlas_intel) November 1, 2025
The seemingly voters questioned by AtlasIntel put Cuomo forward of Mandani by eight factors if Sliwa wasn’t within the race, the ballot reveals. Republican leaders have spent the previous couple of weeks encouraging Sliwa to step down so die-hard Republican voters would facet with Cuomo’s camp.
However the AtlasIntel ballot — which makes use of “proprietary knowledge assortment expertise and post-stratification algorithms” in its polling course of, in line with the corporate’s web site — is an outlier of types.
A Marist ballot launched Thursday confirmed Mamdani with a sturdy 16 level lead over Cuomo.
