Did Zohran Mamdani actually lose the 2025 New York Mayors Race to Andrew Cuomo, in a word, yes, here's why.

Update: Thursday, Nov 6, 2025. Further research questions answered courtesy of Grok reveals New York has a Fusion law which allows same candidate to appear more than once on the same ballot, under different Poltical Parties for the same Political Position. However, this cliffhanger story has taken a surprising turn.
End of Thursday, Nov 6, 2025 Update.

Simple question, if Zohran Mamdani's name appeared twice on the New York Mayoral Ballot under two different Political parties, why are the two vote totals being combined?

Andrew Cuomo should be suing and demanding that Mamdani's two party vote totals be kept separate.  

Cuomo should challenge New York Mayoral 2025 Vote Counting results in Court. 

Is there actual precedent in which a Mayoral candidate attempted to sue for vote total separation when another candidate's name appeared for the same Mayoral position under two political parties? If no such precedent exists, then why not file a lawsuit demanding Mamdani's votes under two different parties not be combined? If precedent exists, it still may be fruit of the poisonous tree. Either way, it should be lawsuit time by Andrew Cuomo over the combining of vote totals from two different political parties.

Curtis Sliwa most likely cost Cuomo votes, just as Mamdani's name under two different political parties most likely cost both Sliwa and Cuomo votes. Ballot counters who combine votes for two different parties, together, should lead to a vote count error lawsuit by Cuomo because the ballot counters did not have the authority to make such a vote counting decision. The political party candidate with the most votes, wins. Update: Friday, November 7, 2025. The Fusion Law does allow votes to be combined from two separate Political Parties, however, a case can be made that belonging to more than one Party can manipulate  pre-vote polls and voter sentiment when the multiple Party numbers are combined together. End of November 7, 2025 Update.

 

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