{"id":355131,"date":"2026-09-23T23:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355131\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T23:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:38:10","slug":"mamdani-is-the-most-popular-elected-official-in-nyc-poll-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355131\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani is the most popular elected official in NYC: poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nine months into his mayoralty, Mayor Mamdani’s honeymoon phase<\/a> is still going strong, according to a poll released Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Mamdani is the most popular elected official in New York City, a new poll from Quinnipiac<\/a> found, with his statewide popularity on par with that of Gov. Hochul.<\/p>\n

Statewide, 46% of likely voters said they have a favorable opinion of Mamdani, while 36% had an unfavorable opinion of him and 15% haven’t heard enough about him. The Quinnipiac poll came out the same day as a similar Siena poll, which found he had the same favorable rating but a 44% unfavorable rating.<\/p>\n

The poll found that, when broken by gender, Mamdani did ten points better among women statewide.<\/p>\n

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> received a 41% favorable and 36% unfavorable rating across the state; Sen. Chuck Schumer got 34% to 51% unfavorable, and the Democratic Socialists of America, the organization that has shaped much of both Mamdani and AOC’s political identity, received a rating of 29% favorable to 43% unfavorable.<\/p>\n

Gov. Hochul received a 46%-43% favorability rating statewide, with her numbers growing to 53% favorable among likely voters from New York City.<\/p>\n

The poll, which surveyed 1,026 likely voters across the state with a margin of error of +\/- 4.1 percentage points, showed Hochul with a comfortable lead over Republican challenger<\/a> Bruce Blakeman, with 58% of likely voters supporting Hochul and 39% supporting Blakeman.<\/p>\n

Among likely voters in the five boroughs, Mamdani nets a whopping 60% favorability rating, with 29% saying they don’t have a favorable opinion of him.<\/p>\n

That’s higher than the local favorability ratings of not just Hochul, but also AOC and Schumer, who received 50%-30% favorability ratings and 32%-55%, respectively. AOC has not ruled out a 2028 run for either Schumer’s Senate seat or the presidency.<\/p>\n

“As Democrats try to regain control of Congress, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s scores are underwater in his home state. It’s worth noting Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is seen in a more positive light at a time when she’s being closely watched as she decides her political future and whether it might include a challenge to Schumer,” Quinnipiac University Poll Assistant Director Mary Snow said in a statement.<\/p>\n

These numbers come as the midterms loom, although Mamdani has not committed to using his influence to weigh in on races outside New York, telling CNN<\/a> this week he was more focused on filling potholes than getting involved in national politics. AOC, for her part, has donated $300,000 to New York State Democrats and is slated to campaign for Democrats<\/a> in upstate New York this week.<\/p>\n

Mamdani endorsed Hochul back in February. The governor has said she expects help from Mamdani in her reelection bid.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine months into his mayoralty, Mayor Mamdani’s honeymoon phase is still going strong, according to a poll released…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1626,2065,36610,9,24,56,63,65,64,132302],"class_list":["post-355131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bruce-blakeman","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-mayor-mamdani","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-quinnipiac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355131","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=355131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}