Voter data shows lower turnout, but pockets of engagement boosted insurgent candidates
This year’s primary election didn’t energize the city’s young voters as much as last year's, but enough showed up to deliver some stinging defeats.
Less than half of the voters who turned out for last year's mayoral primary voted Tuesday. But key constituencies of young voters in liberal neighborhoods powered democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani's preferred congressional candidates to victory.
That’s not by accident, said John Mollenkopf, a political science professor at CUNY Graduate Center.
Mamdani and his DSA allies “have the most effective targeting, canvassing, get-out-the-vote effort that the city has seen in a long time,” Mollenkopf said.
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