Zohran Mamdani won a little over 1 million votes (at current count) in a city with a population of around 7 million adults.

That’s about 14%.

The total election turnout was a little over 2 million (that will likely increase) making for an election turnout of 28%.

That’s not even a third of New York City’s population.

New York City’s election turnout has always been weak. And while the city has a large illegal alien population, it still has 5 million registered voters. That’s a below 40% turnout rate even for registered voters.

The media is hyping this as the highest election turnout in decades. Only if you don’t pay attention to population growth.

In the 1993 showdown between Giuliani and Dinkins, a racist hack who let the city burn, and whom Bill de Blasio viewed as an inspiration, 1.9 million voters turned out in a city with a smaller population and 3 million registered voters for a 59% voter turnout.

The turnout fell in the 2001 election that was effectively a referendum on Giuliani’s policies by Bloomberg, versus another liberal Democrat, was at over 40%.

So no, this isn’t a mandate.

Putting together 1 million votes in a city whose Muslim settler population is somewhere below 1 million (most estimates are dubious) and whose leftist population is certainly in that range is not a big deal.

The opposition didn’t put together enough votes. Everything rested on turnout and with the Muslim settler population and the leftist TikTok voters and college students, Mamdani had a cushion that was hard to beat.

It’s not a mandate. It’s colonization and apathy.