Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani became the first mayoral candidate to break 1 million votes since John Lindsay in 1969 when he convincingly defeated independent candidate Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday, but he also faced record levels of opposition, with Cuomo receiving more votes than any candidate since Rudy Giuliani in 1993.
That divide was particularly evident in Queens, which Mamdani won by 5 points in his worst performance in any borough other than the Republican stronghold of Staten Island.
