Mamdani wins most popular votes since 1960s

With 91 percent of ballots counted, Mamdani had won more than a million votes in the mayoral race, compared with about 850,000 votes for Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani’s tally at the moment, of 1,036,051 votes, is already the highest that any New York mayoral candidate has won since 1965, when Republican John Lindsay won 1,149,106 votes, according to the city’s records. And that number for the winner was actually a drop from the previous two races. Democrat Robert F Wagner, Jr, won more than 1.2 million votes in 1961, and more than 1.5 million votes — an all-time record — in 1957, winning on both occasions.