How young Zohran Mamdani voters persuaded their parents to get on board

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was on to something when he praised the young voters and “aunties” who fueled his victory on election night.

A Gothamist analysis found voters under 40 increased their turnout rate more than any other age group compared to four years ago. Many of those voters, the analysis found, did not go to the polls alone. Turnout data shows there were more than 380,000 households that turned out to vote, 64% of which were in Assembly districts Mamdani won.

To identify these households, Gothamist analyzed voter turnout data to find voters who shared the same residential addresses when they registered. Within those addresses, we isolated the ones that had up to five residents, and only included addresses that had either apartment numbers or common last names among the voters who registered under that address.

That includes the home of Japneet Singh, 30, who was one of the mayor-elect’s early supporters.  Singh ran for City Council this year, losing a primary in the same Southeast Queens district currently represented by City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams. He also co-founded South Asians for Mamdani, a group of volunteers who knocked on doors in South Ozone Park, Richmond Hill, Jamaica and other neighborhoods with large numbers of South Asian voters.



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