Speaking ahead of Tuesday's election, former Gov. Cuomo spoke to voters for the last time, touting new survey results it shows he is closing in on Democratic Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in the mayoral race.
According to an AtlasIntel survey released late Friday, Mamdani is still in the lead a three-person race with nearly 41% of 1,587 likely voters in attendance, but Cuomo trailing with 34%.
Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa is in third place with 24%.
The survey results became known to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers. Already voted early in Tuesday's mayoral election.
“The gap is closing rapidly—we can feel it everywhere from the Bronx to Staten Island,” Cuomo said in a statement Saturday. “At this rate, we win the race“
The poll results were also released ahead of Cuomo's visit to Queens, where he was the state's grand marshal. 7th Annual “We Can Because We Know We Can Parade” Festival in Cambria Heights. He was also expected to greet voters in Jamaica, Queens and Brownsville, Brooklyn, as he continues to court black voters.
After campaign stop at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action NetworkMamdani ignored the new poll.
“I'm not worried at all. I still have confidence in myself, but I never let that confidence become complacency,” said Mamdani, who believes the strong early voter turnout equates to New Yorkers' desire for a change in the city's leadership.
“When you actually get out there and talk to New Yorkers yourself, you'll find that the momentum continues to grow, and it's the momentum of young voters, older voters, the momentum of New Yorkers hungry for change, and we're really 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 New York City mayor, Zoran Mamdani (D) leads Andrew Cuomo (I) by 6.6 points and Curtis Sliwa (D) by 16.5 points. pic.twitter.com/wiCrRaYDpo
— AtlasIntel (@atlas_intel) November 1, 2025
The poll shows likely voters polled by AtlasIntel believe Cuomo would lead Mandani by eight points if Sliwa were to stay out of the race. Republican leaders have spent the last few weeks calling on Sliva to resign so diehard Republican voters sided with the Cuomo camp.
But the AtlasIntel survey, which uses “proprietary data collection technology and post-stratification algorithms” in the survey process, according to the company's website, is something of an exception.
A Marist poll released Thursday found Mamdani leads Cuomo by 16 points.
