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Democratic Socialist candidates have posted two primary wins in New York City in recent months, but precinct-level returns show the coalitions that carried both races were built on younger and college-educated voters while working-class Black and Hispanic neighborhoods backed their opponents by wide margins.
Mamdani's gap in Black neighborhoods In the June mayoral primary, Zohran Mamdani, now New York City mayor, lost among Black voters citywide to Andrew Cuomo by nearly six points.
Brownsville and East Flatbush, two of the city's poorest neighborhoods where more than 60 percent of residents are Black, went heavily against him.
Mamdani spent months pivoting toward pocketbook issues, including housing costs, before securing enough of that support to win the November general election.
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