NYC Mayoral Race: Find Out Which Candidate Your Neighborhood Is Funding

Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is the leading Democrat in New York City’s mayor’s race and has raised more money from donors than any other candidate running in the June 24 Democratic primary. But among donors who live in the city, he does not appear to be the favorite.

Amount of money raised

Contributions to leading Democrats from individual donors, in millions

Donors from:

N.Y.C.

Outside N.Y.C.

Andrew Cuomo

Zohran Mamdani

Brad Lander

Scott Stringer

Adrienne Adams

Number of individual donors

Zohran Mamdani

Brad Lander

Scott Stringer

Andrew Cuomo

Adrienne Adams

Note: Only donations from individuals are included.

By The New York TImes

Zohran Mamdani, the social media-savvy state assemblyman from Queens, has raised more money from New Yorkers than Mr. Cuomo, according to the latest campaign finance disclosures, and has received donations from far more individuals than any other candidate.

Mr. Cuomo, the former governor who resigned in 2021 after a series of sexual harassment accusations that he denies, firmly holds his position as the front-runner.

But Mr. Mamdani’s rising popularity and broad appeal is evident by the support he has received from donors across the city, in large swaths of neighborhoods in the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn, according to a New York Times analysis of campaign donations made from January 2022 to March 13 of this year. Individuals who made donations were allocated to neighborhoods based on the donors’ listed addresses.

Mayor Eric Adams will not be running in the Democratic primary, instead opting to run for re-election in this year’s general election as an independent. As the incumbent Democratic mayor, Mr. Adams had raised funds for several years before announcing the change, and he had the highest share of donors in neighborhoods in Staten Island, south Brooklyn and the Bronx, compared with the Democratic candidates.

With Mr. Adams out of the primary, the map of support looks a bit different. Mr. Mamdani and Scott Stringer, the former city comptroller, are now the Democrats with the most donors in several neighborhoods in south Brooklyn and Staten Island, for example.

Mr. Mamdani has received donations from more than 14,000 individuals in New York City, which is more than three times the number of New Yorkers who donated to the campaigns of Mr. Cuomo and Mr. Adams combined. These figures suggest strong support for Mr. Mamdani, but having the most donors does not always mean a candidate will win the most votes.

Heading into the Democratic primary in 2021’s mayoral race, for example, the candidate who had the most support from individual donors in New York City was Andrew Yang. More than 11,000 New Yorkers had donated to Mr. Yang’s campaign, compared with about 7,000 for Mr. Adams. But in the end, Mr. Adams won the primary, and Mr. Yang came in fourth place.

Share of donors who live in New York City

	N.Y.C. donors	All donors	N.Y.C. %
Zohran Mamdani	14,837	19,007	78%
Brad Lander	5,642	6,319	89%
Scott Stringer	4,021	4,529	89%
Zellnor Myrie	3,552	4,054	88%
Andrew Cuomo	1,860	2,714	69%
Whitney Tilson	1,677	2,493	67%
Jessica Ramos	1,408	1,713	82%
Michael Blake	637	1,364	47%
Adrienne Adams	931	1,081	86%
Eric Adams	2,745	4,525	61%
Jim Walden	1,474	1,951	76%
Curtis Sliwa	624	910	69%

Several of the candidates running for mayor found strong support in specific clusters of neighborhoods in the five boroughs.

Mr. Cuomo did not have a particularly high share of donors in any specific neighborhood. He did best in the Upper East Side, with 22 percent of the 2,125 people in that neighborhood who donated to Democratic candidates.

Of the $675,611 that was contributed to Democrats by donors in that neighborhood, however, Mr. Cuomo received 49 percent.

Ranking candidates by dollars raised

Mr. Adams, who has been raising money for his campaign since 2022, has in total raised $4.38 million from donors, far more than any other candidate.

Mr. Cuomo, who entered the race on March 1, quickly raised more money than any other Democratic candidate, including those who had been raising money for many months.

Eric Adams

Andrew Cuomo

Zohran Mamdani

Brad Lander

Scott Stringer

Adrienne Adams

Mr. Adams raised his $4.38 million from 4,525 individual donors, making the average payment per donor a larger sum than any other candidate, about $968. Among the candidates running in the Democratic primary, Mr. Cuomo had the highest average per donor, at $559. Mr. Mamdani’s average per donor was the lowest among all candidates, at $78.

Money from individual donors

	Total raised (millions)	Donors	Avg. per donor
Zohran Mamdani	$1.49	19,007	$78
Brad Lander	$1.37	6,319	$217
Scott Stringer	$0.97	4,529	$215
Zellnor Myrie	$0.78	4,054	$192
Andrew Cuomo	$1.52	2,714	$559
Whitney Tilson	$0.71	2,493	$286
Jessica Ramos	$0.23	1,713	$133
Michael Blake	$0.29	1,364	$210
Adrienne Adams	$0.12	1,081	$115
Eric Adams	$4.38	4,525	$968
Jim Walden	$0.89	1,951	$457
Curtis Sliwa	$0.08	910	$84

Last month, Mr. Mamdani’s campaign got a financial boost when it received $3.8 million from the city’s public matching funds program, more than any other candidate. The program gives mayoral candidates $8 for every $1 they receive from individual city residents, up to $250 per donor, so that candidates who get many small donations stand to benefit more than those who get fewer large donations.

Jim Walden, a former federal prosecutor running as an independent, received $1.9 million; Brad Lander, the city comptroller, was awarded $861,831; Mr. Stringer $696,942; and State Senator Zellnor Myrie received $527,147. Mr. Cuomo was not awarded matching funds because, a campaign spokesman told The City, there was a “technical software error” with a platform the campaign uses to collect donations.

See the top candidates in your neighborhood

Each neighborhood where 10 or more people donated to any Democrat is listed below, along with the top three Democratic candidates by amount, and number of individual donors.

Read more here about where the leading Democratic candidates stand on the issues in the race.