In a final push before Tuesday’s election, former Gov. Cuomo highlighted the findings of a recent poll indicating he is closing in on Democratic socialist Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in the mayoral race.
The latest AtlasIntel survey, published late Friday, reveals Mamdani leading with nearly 41% of the 1,587 likely voters surveyed, while Cuomo is narrowing the gap with 34% support.
Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa trails in third place, securing 24% of the vote.
These polling figures emerge as a substantial number of New Yorkers have already exercised their right to vote early ahead of the mayoral election on Tuesday.
“The momentum is building rapidly—we sense it from the Bronx to Staten Island,” Cuomo stated on Saturday. “At this pace, victory is within reach.”
The polling results also came the night before Cuomo visited Queens, where he was grand marshal in the 7th Annual We Can Because We Know We Can Parade in Cambria Heights. He was also expected to greet voters in Jamaica, Queens and Brownsville, Brooklyn, as he continues to court Black voters.
During a visit to Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, Mamdani dismissed the significance of the latest poll results.
“I’m not worried at all. I continue to be confident, but I never let that confidence become complacency,” said Mamdani, who believes the large turnout of early voters equates to New Yorkers wanting a change in the city’s leadership.
“When you actually go out there and speak to New Yorkers yourself, you will find the momentum continues to grow, and it’s a momentum of young voters, of older voters, a momentum of New Yorkers who are hungry for change, and we’re excited to see, especially yesterday, how many New Yorkers came out to vote,” he said Saturday.
Atlas Poll
2025 New York City Mayoral Election
In 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 likely voters questioned by AtlasIntel put Cuomo ahead of Mandani by eight points if Sliwa wasn’t in the race, the poll shows. Republican leaders have spent the last few weeks encouraging Sliwa to step down so die-hard Republican voters would side with Cuomo’s camp.
But the AtlasIntel poll — which uses “proprietary data collection technology and post-stratification algorithms” in its polling process, according to the company’s website — is an outlier of sorts.
A Marist poll released Thursday showed Mamdani with a robust 16 point lead over Cuomo.
