{"id":323092,"date":"2026-08-17T13:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323092\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:36:08","slug":"mayor-mamdani-finds-favor-in-new-york-city-but-struggles-with-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323092\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani finds favor in New York City, but struggles with state"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zohran Mamdani’s favorability in New York City continues to grow, a recent Siena University poll shows.<\/p>\n

The poll, taken earlier this month, asked hundreds of likely NY voters their opinion on the mayor, with many in the city seeing him in a favorable light.<\/p>\n

Here’s what to know.<\/p>\n

What is Mamdani’s favorability?<\/p>\n

Mamdani, who took office in January, has enjoyed climbing favorability among voters.<\/p>\n

The Siena poll<\/a>, released Aug. 12, surveyed 811 likely New York voters on their opinions for many politicians in the state, including Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mamdani.<\/p>\n

For Mamdani, his favorability rating was high in the city. In NYC, 69% of those polled viewed Mamdani as favorable, while 24% viewed him as unfavorable. Approximately 8% did not know or did not have an opinion.<\/p>\n

In June, another Siena poll reported<\/a> that his NYC rating was at 58-26%. The poll was conducted from June 17 to 23 among 1,120 New York State registered voters.<\/p>\n

For New York State, his favorability numbers are starkly different. Approximately 47% showed the mayor in a favorable light, while 44% viewed him as unfavorable.<\/p>\n

In the same June poll, Mamdani’s state favorability sat at 45-34%. At the time, 21% did not know or did not have an opinion.<\/p>\n

In Upstate New York, his favorability is 41-46%. Currently, the mayor is at an unspecified location upstate on vacation with his family.<\/p>\n

For the first time, Siena asked the respondents how they view the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA, of which Mamdani is a member. In the state, the majority viewed the organization in an unfavorable light, at 30-47%. Approximately 23% had no opinion.<\/p>\n

For New York City, however, DSA held a 49-32% favorability rating. Approximately 20% were still unsure.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Mayor Mamdani finds favor in New York City, but struggles with state<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani’s favorability in New York City continues to grow, a recent Siena University poll shows. The poll,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[121719,121720,426,9,24,56,63,65,64,105367,82],"class_list":["post-323092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-favorability","tag-favorable-light","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-siena-university","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}