NYC Election Day 2023 Results

[TheWiseShopper]

Originally Posted by Robert.Dinero

http://https://www.politico.com/news...srael-00125317

Democratic indeed, but reading this article in details shows that the centrist aisle of the Democratic Party in the city is slowly replacing the progressive one over all the issues we know.

Also the number of GOP council members doubled (from 3 in 2021 to 6 since last Tuesday).

“ Democrats still dominate New York City politics — the big tent party running the gamut from far-left DSA to conservative enough to get the GOP line — but what is perhaps the bluest city in the nation is undergoing a change.”

“ Trump got more votes in his native city in 2020 than in 2016. Zeldin did better than expected in the city in his gubernatorial race last year, making it the closest race for governor in New York since 1994 in a narrow loss to Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.”

Pataki was elected governor of NY in 1995 and he was Republican. Just shows that a Republican CAN win in NY if he/she is the right candidate. Maybe we're just not getting the right Republican candidates anymore.

[prospectheightsresident]

Originally Posted by TheWiseShopper

Pataki was elected governor of NY in 1995 and he was Republican. Just shows that a Republican CAN win in NY if he/she is the right candidate. Maybe we're just not getting the right Republican candidates anymore.

Lee Zeldin, a republican, almost won last year, winning 47% of the vote (I was proud to vote for him/against Hochul). I'd wager that if so many New Yorkers hadn't up and moved to Florida during the pandemic (we're talking hundreds of thousands who moved over the course of those years . . . I'd wager that most of them weren't Democrats), his chances for victory would have been even greater.

That said, just like Pataki's victory in 1994 and the single digit election of 2022, I'd wager that not only does the right kind of Republican matter, but the right political situation matters as well.

[TheWiseShopper]

Originally Posted by prospectheightsresident

Lee Zeldin, a republican, almost won last year, winning 47% of the vote (I was proud to vote for him/against Hochul). I'd wager that if so many New Yorkers hadn't up and moved to Florida during the pandemic (we're talking hundreds of thousands who moved over the course of those years . . . I'd wager that most of them weren't Democrats), his chances for victory would have been even greater.

That said, just like Pataki's victory in 1994 and the single digit election of 2022, I'd wager that not only does the right kind of Republican matter, but the right political situation matters as well.

Yeah, definitely more Republicans moved to Florida because it used to be a swing state, but it is pretty much a solid Republican state now.